3+ hour, 28+ min ago  (988+ words) Picture a highway with networked autonomous cars driving along it. On a serene, cloudless day, these cars need only exchange thimblefuls of data with one another. Now picture the same stretch in a sudden snow squall: The cars rapidly need…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (276+ words) Plans have been submitted for the installation of 1, 200 solar panels on the roof of the Isle of Man's National Sports Centre (NSC). The move forms part of wider plans by Manx Utilities to generate 75% of the island's electricity through solar…...

6+ hour, 3+ min ago  (180+ words) Near-death experiences, or NDEs, have become a prominent way to study consciousness in the past 50 years. A new literature review surveys nearly 40 years of NDE research and finds that children's experiences are often excluded from findings. The authors argue that…...

11+ hour, 7+ min ago  (377+ words) Extracting a valuable material for life-saving nuclear medicine from nuclear waste before removing it from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory campus will be the subject of the Tuesday, Apr. 14, talk to Friends of ORNL. The talk is free and open…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (129+ words) Stacker compiled a ranking of the coldest Aprils in West Virginia since 1895 using data from the National Centers for Environmental Information. Rankings are based on the lowest average temperature in each month. For each of the coldest months listed below,…...

1+ hour, 48+ min ago  (655+ words) In 1931, T. S. Eliot wrote, "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." More than 50 years later, in his book "Cosmos," Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan noted, "Somewhere, something incredible is…...

2+ hour, 18+ min ago  (447+ words) Playing hide and seek with friends or parents is one of the most classic staples of childhood, for both humans and animals. As this adorable footage of a mama bear playing this game with one of her cubs shows, there…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago  (351+ words) AOL. com Samsung is finally adding support for Google Cast, Google's protocol that lets you send media from your phone or browser to a TV or speaker, which then streams the content from the internet while your device works like…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (545+ words) Susan Charlesworth has a rather rare and unique job that involves preparing people for something very few humans have ever expierenced - travelling into space. The Oxfordshire based psychologist trains astronauts and says Nasa's ongoing Artemis II mission has been "inspiring…...

4+ hour, 3+ min ago  (292+ words) Work has begun to expand a science park to cover two and a half times its current area. The Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, on the southern edge of Cambridgeshire, is due to grow to about 440 acres (178 hectares), with new…...