October 21, 2015 Star Trek 'tractor beam' created by scientists A team of scientists has created a real-life miniature "tractor beam" - as featured in the Star Trek series - in a development which may lead to more efficient medical testing.
October 21, 2015 Atom smasher plans for future discoveries The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher goes into a 2-year hibernation in March, as engineers carry out a revamp to help it reach maximum energy levels that could lead to more stunning discoveries following the detection of the so-called "God particle."
October 21, 2015 A report about reports about reports? Yep, at this year’s Ig Nobel awards A U.S. government agency has earned a literature prize for issuing a report about reports about reports -- and concluding that a new report ought to be prepared to sum it all up.
October 21, 2015 'The Next MacGyver' competition aims to encourage more women to pursue STEM Back when she was growing up, Veronica Eliasson used to be rooted in front of her family’s television watching “MacGyver” with her younger brother. The long-running action-adventure series followed the exploits of an American secret agent who came up with inventive solutions to difficult problems by engineering tools out of everyday things. Think objects like duct tape, for instance. The show had worldwide appeal, and for the young Eliasson, whose father always told her she should become an engineer, it opened her eyes to the fact that science could be fun — and exciting.
October 21, 2015 New Mexico police catch a 'ghost' on camera Next time you see a ghost, ‘who you gonna call?’ For those who live in Espanola, New Mexico, it won’t be Bill Murray and his fellow Ghostbusters, but instead the local police department.
October 21, 2015 'Theory of Everything' poster unveiled for Stephen Hawking biopic A new poster for a Stephen Hawking biopic set for release later this year celebrates the love and scientific theories of one of the most well known cosmologists ever.
October 21, 2015 New poll says Big Bang theory a big question for many Americans While scientists believe the universe began with a Big Bang, most Americans put a big question mark on the concept, an Associated Press-GfK poll found.
October 21, 2015 Top quark: Mass of world's heaviest elementary particle found In the first joint result from the world's two leading particle colliders, scientists have determined the mass of the heaviest elementary particle, the top quark.
October 21, 2015 Cosmos may be curved, scientists say Evidence left over after the Big Bang may suggest a saddle-shaped universe, new data suggests.
October 21, 2015 Physicists levitate tiny diamonds in wild experiment In quite an eerie feat, physicists have floated microscopic diamonds in midair using laser beams.
