Humongous Web News Blogs

The proposed space elevator project could be powered by a simple new approach, demonstrated using a broomstick.

A new generation of hi-tech clubs means golfers may be risking their hearing for their sport, according to research.

Australian scientists say they want to build a fence on Tasmania to prevent the spread of a cancer that could wipe out the Tasmanian Devil.

The Arabic genius working 700 years before Newton

The US space agency’s Mars rovers celebrate a longer-than-expected five years investigating the Red Planet.

Research into creating tiny structures on light sensors could mean digital cameras take better pictures.

The controversial idea that space impacts may have wiped out woolly mammoths and early human settlers in North America receives new impetus.

Growth of corals in the Great Barrier Reef has slowed to the most sluggish rate in 400 years, researchers say.

A look around a US gym powered by exercise

Sir Peter Cook recalls 1960s avant garde visions