First Lady Michelle Obama stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show this week and, knowing Ellen is a big fan of dancing, challenged the comedian to learn the #GimmeFive dance to help mark the fifth anniversary of her healthy life campaign Let's Move! Watch the two break it down to "Uptown Funk,"

In this video, FlackCheck.org reviews some of the false and misleading claims about climate change that we have written about for FactCheck.org’s SciCheck feature. The topics covered include: “global cooling,” glacier growth in Alaska, the impact of human activity on climate change, the connection b

China is to relocate more than 9,000 people in the lead-up to the opening of the world’s largest radio telescope later this year – a move that Beijing hopes will boost the global hunt for extraterrestrial life. Work on the 1.2bn yuan (£127m) Fast (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescop

Buddy, engineered by Team Mojavaton, participated in the DARPA Robotics Challenge trials in December, 2013. The goal of the competition was to encourage the development of robots that can assist humans in natural and man-made disasters. Though Buddy experienced a mechanical malfunction during the tr...

DroneGun provides a safe countermeasure against a wide range of drone models. It allows for a controlled management of drone payload such as explosives, with no damage to common drones models or surrounding environment due to the drones generally responding via a vertical controlled landing on the s...

This $15BN ocean crossing connects Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai, drastically reducing journey times and bringing over 68 million people closer together.

President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations on climate change at the UN Climate Change Summit on September 23, 2014 in New York.

This animation shows the GOES-East infrared imagery from April 1-30, along with the locations of each tornado that formed during the time (symbolized as red dots). Though tornadoes cannot actually be seen by GOES, these satellites are instrumental in being able to detect the conditions associated wi...

Finland is building the largest and most powerful nuclear reactor in Europe - and may have worked out what to do with spent nuclear fuel once and for all. Discover how to build in 2030 with Bluebeam.

The Florida Reef Tract is the third largest coral reef in the world and a vastly important ecosystem for sustaining underwater life. Scientists are working to combat the crisis in the world’s coral reefs—that is, that human beings have lost 25 to 40 percent of the world’s corals in recent decades du