April 5, 2017 Search is on for Caligula's 2,000-year-old orgy boat The "party boats" of Roman Emperor Caligula were so legendary that Benito Mussolini partially drained a lake in order to find two of them a century ago.
April 5, 2017 New technique not only detects cancer, it can pinpoint its location from blood samples CancerLocator simultaneously detects cancer and determines where in the in the body it's located by analyzing a blood sample. The program could facilitate not only quicker diagnosis but also more effective treatments.
April 5, 2017 US Army testing a device that could give soldiers a 'third arm' Traditional weaponry has often been a burden to soldiers, placing added weight on their bodies, slowing reaction times at times when all of their facilities are needed. Future troops may wind up having a “third arm” to help offset the weight.
April 5, 2017 'Mars Base Camp': Lockheed fleshes out red planet space station plan In 2028, a space station could be circling Mars, if a new concept comes to fruition.
April 5, 2017 Where's Planet Nine? Citizen scientists spot 4 possible candidates Citizen scientists have flagged four objects for follow-up study in the hunt for the hypothetical Planet Nine .
April 4, 2017 Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web, along with the first web browser and other technologies have have allowed the web to scale.
April 4, 2017 This $250,000 flight suit will turn you into a real life Iron Man If you've ever dreamed of becoming a real-life Iron Man, and have enough Tony Stark-style bank that you can afford to drop $250,000 on an expensive toy, then this is the purchase for you!
April 4, 2017 Second Arctic 'doomsday' vault will store the world's data Who says there’s no good news? It just so happens that if all of humanity is wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, the people of Earth will leave behind a record of their existence in two “doomsday vaults” on the frozen island of Svalbard, halfway between Norway and the North Pole.
April 4, 2017 Astronaut's rare thunderstorm photos from space reveal stormy science From the unique viewing location of the International Space Station (ISS), Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen captured what may be the first ever photographs of strange and rarely-seen features of thunderstorms.
April 1, 2017 Russia develops hypersonic 4,600 mph Zircon missile The race to develop an unstoppable and unbeatable weapon capable of defeating all the military defense systems in the world is getting much too close for comfort.