Marine Current Turbines Ltd, the global leader in tidal stream technology, has successfully completed the installation of its 1.2MW SeaGen tidal energy system in Strangford Narrows in Northern Ireland. There will now be a 12-week period of commissioning...

Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds — that is, until he steps into an “exoskeleton” of aluminum and electronics...

A new study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggests that the human visual system is equipped with the ability to foresee the future. Assistant Professor Mark Changizi says that it takes nearly one-tenth of a second for the brain to perceive what...

Oscar Pistorius a.k.a Bladerunner who was banned from all competitions by the IAAF last year is back in the game. A court has overturned that ruling so he’s back in the game, YAY! The controversy started when several people complained his...

The newest analysis of trace gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores now provide a reasonable view of greenhouse gas concentrations as much as 800,000 years into the past, and are further confirming the link between greenhouse gas levels and global...

A family has released a picture of their son lying in a hospital bed paralysed after a “moment of madness” when he ‘tombstoned’ from a pier. The loved ones of Sonny Wells, 20, released the image in the hope it would save others...

Like swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano — except with a longer interval (73 years in this case) — the zeppelins are returning to California. Operating out of Moffett Field, near Mountain View at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, Airship...

A chemical reaction in genes that control breast cancer provides a molecular clock that could one day help researchers more accurately determine a woman’s risk for developing breast cancer and provide a new approach for treatment, UT Southwestern...

Sacred of needles? Many people are. It hurts because the needles are not fine enough, and up until now, it was impossible to make very fine ones. Scientist Hyung Il Jung from Yonsei University in Seoul Korea has recently filed a patent for the...

With naval battles on the high seas now virtually extinct for the U.S. armed forces, the navy’s role has become more one of infantry invasion and airstrike support - and with this new role comes a need for vessels more suited to littoral (just...