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There's a long-standing question in planetary science about the origin of water on Earth, Mars and other large bodies such as the moon. One hypothesis says that it came from asteroids and comets post-formation. But some planetary...

Pterosaurs roamed the skies long ago as the first animals to evolve powered flight after insects - and in the Gobi Desert, scientists recently found the remains of one that could have been nearly as big as a small aircraft...

3.95 billion-year-old rocks could offer the oldest evidence we've found for life on Earth. A team led by the University of Tokyo found graphite in Labrador, Canada that they think is biogenic, or produced by living organisms....

3.95 billion-year-old rocks could offer the oldest evidence we've found for life on Earth. A team led by the University of Tokyo found graphite in Labrador, Canada that they think is biogenic, or produced by living organisms....

A new solar cell could go through the laundry and emerge still working. The photovoltaic cell, developed by Japanese research institution RIKEN and the University of Tokyo, is ultra thin and coated on both sides with waterproof...

Other approaches to 3D-printed architecture typically involve a stationary platform on which the designs are constructed, but this handheld pen changes the game...

  An Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) postdoctoral researcher made an interesting discovery recently -- using nothing more than cardboard, Teflon tape, and a pencil, it's possible to make a small, eco-friendly...

Harnessing the sun’s energy for use here on Earth is a fairly easy thing to do in areas where a lot of sunlight hits the ground (or rooftop, as it were)...

Taking inspiration from origami is nothing new. Kayaks, furniture, museums, and space-based solar panels have all been inspired by the Japanese art of paper folding. The latest origami creation could have applications everything...

Most university campus buildings are hard on the outside, using brick, concrete, metal and stone to create their familiar facades. The people at Kengo Kuma wanted to break away from that to make a building that felt soft...

Most university campus buildings are hard on the outside, using brick, concrete, metal and stone to create their familiar facades. The people at Kengo Kuma wanted to break away from that to make a building that felt soft...

Shimizu Corp.'s vision of the modern-day Atlantis is divided into three parts, with the underwater city contained in a 1,600-feet-wide sphere that could house up to 5,000 residents and comprise mixed-use developments where...

The Digital Fabrication Lab is an initiative founded by architect Kengo Kuma and Yusuke Obuchi to explore architectural innovations through experimentation...

Scientists from Austria and Japan just announced that they have created micro-thin solar cells that are thinner than a human hair and even narrower than spider silk...

Or, “how to make pie in the sky using our simple recipe”. From the New Scientist, making solar power is just as easy as building a few factories in the middle of the Sahara Desert and then making solar cells …...