Katharine Hayhoe, a co-author of the current Assessment (November, 2018) and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, said in a Friday tweet that the White House’s claim is “demonstrably false.” The 1,600-page report, which was issued by 13 federal agencies and authored by

Lenticular clouds are stationary clouds that form mostly in the troposphere, typically in parallel alignment to the wind direction. These lens-shaped orographic wave clouds form when the air is stable and winds blow across hills and mountains from the same or similar direction at different heights ...

Since 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been creating strandbeesten (Dutch for "beach beasts", singular strandbeest), which are moving kinetic structures, sometimes wind-propelled, that resemble walking animals, described by Jansen as artificial life. All of his models are based on a system of tr...

Enjoy the lyrics of Nobel Prize Winner Bob Dylan's famous Blowin' in the Wind showned in this video. A longtime stumbling block for Mr. Dylan’s literary recognition — which eventually didn’t matter to the Pulitzers (2008) or the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2013) and now to the Nobels — has

A plane powered by the sun's rays landed in Hawaii on Friday, July 3, 2015 after a record-breaking five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan.

Dr. Wendy Freedman, Chairman GMT, and Dr. Pat McCarthy, Director GMT, discuss the Giant Magellan Telescope's mirrors and the science that they will enable.

The city of Dubai is no stranger to ambitious construction and architectural projects. Dubai recently announced plans to construct a $5 billion resort that resembles the moon. The structure will be 735 feet tall, and will emulate the conditions of the actual moon. In today's video, we discuss everyt...

Thousands of metres up the vertiginous slopes of Shifou Mountain in Hunan Province, China, a team of workers, operating with hardly any safety measures, are building a footpath.

Humans have been obsessed with eclipses for centuries. But, what can they actually teach us about our place in the solar system? Total solar eclipses have helped bring about some of the most important astronomic discoveries. Nicolaus Copernicus’ eclipse observations helped him determine that the Ear

Hyperloop represents the greatest leap in transport infrastructure for generations. Here we explain the concept that's about to revolutionize our world.