Flying over the Alps with four model airplane engines and a single wing was a demonstration of the jet pack developed by Yves Rossy.

A new series of weekly articles from Scientific American profiles past winners of the Westinghouse/Intel Science Talent Search. Since 1942, the competition has honored some 2,500 high school students for their science projects. Where are they now?

NASA has just announced this morning finding the youngest supernova known. At only 140 years of age it is just a youngster by all galactic standards.

Just for once it’s not the big handsome guy who gets the girl. For the Anopheles gambiae mosquito it turns out that average-sized males get the most action.

Nanoparticles have the ability to transform the landscape of how many products now in use by people are able to operate better. Or to create future hazards which aren't even possible to make a good guess about.

This year's finalists for the Royal Academy of Engineering's MacRobert Award reflect two of global culture's most dynamic engines; the environment and an aging population. The final Four are different enough to make picking a winner a tough call.

A team of Canadian researchers has completed a massive survey of the network of protein complexes that orchestrate the fundamental processes of life.

A fan of Neil Young who happens to be a biologist named a newly discovered spider after the Canadian rocker. The trapdoor spider, Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi lives in Alabama.

As a means to try to reach the Independent voters, presumed GOP nominee Senator John McCain or Arizona is addressing the environment.

First, you make an engine about a nanometer or so across, then you strengthen it with carbon nanotubes, then you crank it up with rocket fuel. Scientists in Arizona have created a powerful little nanomotor which has some big potential applications.