Engineers from an Australian University have produced a new type of 3D-printed titanium that’s about a third cheaper than commonly used titanium alloys. A team of engineers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) developed the groundbreaking alloy by replacing expen … | Continue reading
(Article by Jackie Rocheleau originally published by Knowable Magazine) Infusion of the tiny, sausage-shaped structures helps to rejuvenate tissues deprived of blood. Researchers hope the technique can treat a variety of damaged organs. James McCully was in the lab extracting tin … | Continue reading
Last year, an Australian R&D team proposed a revolutionary new way to create and transport renewable hydrogen energy. The partnership from Curtin University and Velox Energy Materials devised a circular hydrogen industry consisting of hydrogen generation, the capacity to turn it … | Continue reading
A team of Welsh scientists are developing an early-warning system for late potato blight, a water mold that causes nearly $4 billion in agricultural losses every year. Powered by AI, the smartphone-based application can detect signs of late plight on potato leaves before any mani … | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered that pairing wheat with a special soil fungus can significantly enhance its nutritional value. This partnership leads to bigger grains that are richer in zinc and phosphorus without increasing anti-nutrients that block absorption. As a result, the wheat … | Continue reading
For the staff at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, examining this newly found vertebrae from a 67-million-year old plant-eating dinosaur was just another day in the office. The surprise came in the form of its discovery—from right under the museum itself, which seems appro … | Continue reading
A new chemical probe protects healthy cells from DNA damage, preserving them from one of the 8 hallmarks of aging. The story of this potentially paradigmatic development begins where so much of human health begins: the mitochondria. These organelles are disrespectfully monikered … | Continue reading
Imagine walking to the store for ice cream and running into a free opportunity to view Saturn’s rings. That’s what’s happened for thousands of lucky pedestrians, thanks to #PopScope, the urban astronomy movement. Now in its 11th year, the volunteer-run group just hit a major mile … | Continue reading
A very sci-fi invention has been introduced by engineers from Facebook’s parent company that translates hand gestures into computer actions. This includes fine motor movements like dotting a lowercase i, and translating handwriting into computer text is something the interface is … | Continue reading
A newly-declared species of 247 million-year-old Triassic reptile and its ridiculously large crest has left scientists scratching their heads. The crest is unlike anything seen before, and was neither made out of skin, as in the case of pterosaur crests, nor feathers, as in the c … | Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from World at Large. Researchers have discovered that the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms can extend lifespan and reduce cellular aging by 50% in human cells and 30% in elderly mice. The experiments reveal another potential therapeutic use of th … | Continue reading
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has clawed back the thick, dusty layers of a section within the Cat’s Paw Nebula to mark the start of its 3rd year of operations. The image it reveals shows a star-forming region where massive stars are in their very earliest stages of birth, hel … | Continue reading
Hundreds of potential antibiotics have been discovered in snake and spider venom thanks to AI. A screening of global venom libraries, powered by artificial intelligence uncovered dozens of “promising” new drug candidates. AI has already been used to complete screenings of plant c … | Continue reading
Eleven years of cancer research has proven fruitful for a scientist at Johns Hopkins who uncovered a new tumor-suppressive response that could lead to novel therapies targeting hard-to-treat cancers. The new study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the Natio … | Continue reading
In a development that could reduce the emissions that exacerbate humanity’s climate crisis, an international team of engineers may have created the whitest coating yet—with the help of artificial intelligence. Their new thermal coating could reduce energy bills significantly by k … | Continue reading
The story of how Sphenodraco scandentis came to be known is one for the ages: involving lies and deceit, and the well-trained eye of a brilliant paleontology student. Ph.D. student Victor Beccari couldn’t shake the feeling he had seen the fossil before: it was a slab of rock cont … | Continue reading
Scientists have found that plants make a series of sounds that indicate they are under duress, and that certain animals have evolved to hear these and react to them. Described as a “vast, unexplored field,” the phytoacoustics are inaudible to the human hear, but adjusted to frequ … | Continue reading
A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created something 225-times the size of our Sun. It’s the largest such event ever detected in the history of gravitational wave astronomy, and pushed the limits of … | Continue reading
A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology had been made down in Belize, as the royal tomb of a major city’s first-known ruler is discovered by a husband-wife archaeology team. Buried with elaborate jade, ceramics, and symbolic artifacts, the tomb offers unprecedented insight into … | Continue reading
Scientists in Scotland recently engineered bacteria to be able to turn plastic into a precursor to the painkiller acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol. Though far from scalable at the moment, the reaction nevertheless underpins a potential starting point for greener productio … | Continue reading
An ancient Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanoes. The rare meteorite with its unique chemical makeup bridges a billion-year gap in lunar rock samples, and suggests the Moon had internal heat sources that persisted for ages. The 2.3 … | Continue reading
A team of scientists who could only be described as ‘intrepid’ sailed several hundred miles across the East China Sea in an ancient replica canoe. The peopling of the Pacific islands has long been one of the great mysteries of anthropology, and the Japanese researchers wanted to … | Continue reading
A trial investigating the potential for a gene therapy to correct congenital deafness in children and young adults saw all 10 participants gain auditory ability, and allowed them to hear the sound of falling rain or their mother’s voice for the first time ever. The younger patien … | Continue reading
Astronomers have confirmed for just the third time ever that the solar system has been visited by an interstellar comet. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and Jupiter, and will soon be gone fo … | Continue reading
Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone. This ‘auto-petrification’ may offer a strange new way to reduce human carbon emissions, as the mineral created by the trees has a much longer lifespan than org … | Continue reading
Groundbreaking research by the University of Sydney has identified a new brain protein involved in the development of Parkinson’s disease and a way to modify it, paving the way for future treatments for the disease. With the aim of finding new treatments to slow or stop its progr … | Continue reading
Of course nothing and no one can actually see dark matter, but the accurate mapping of its warping influence on this new image from the James Webb Space Telescope is as good as it gets. Containing two very large galaxy clusters, together known as the Bullet Cluster, the blue hues … | Continue reading
If they don’t grow in right, most people will treat their wisdom teeth as bio-baggage, useful only for preventing money from burning a hole in one’s pocket due to the surgical costs of removing them. But an astounding new discovery has found that this third set of molars contain … | Continue reading
Paleontology may be entering another great era of discovery: characterized by serial misidentification in decades past. For an example one need look no further than the newly-dubbed “Dragon Prince of Mongolia,” a small tyrannosaurid from the earlier days of the lineage’s evolutio … | Continue reading
Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, stars, and even our own solar system’s planets. Now, the most expensive telescope ever made has unveiled a new trick—a coronagraph, which allows it to block … | Continue reading
A coalition of Japanese researchers and institutes have established that a pathway exists through which humble vitamin C can actually regenerate skin cells. As we age, our skin naturally becomes thinner and more fragile due to a decline in cell production. The researchers found t … | Continue reading
To use what will become a timeless adage, one of the most amazing things about life is how it, uh, finds a way—as seen lately in England where ash trees are spontaneously developing resistance to a deadly disease. Natural selection in woodlands is acting to combat the disease ash … | Continue reading
Swedish engineers have improved the process through which hydrogen fuel is produced from solar electricity by 800%. Hydrogen fuel is considered one of the best renewable alternatives to fossil fuels in heavy machinery like planes and ships, but its creation requires electricity. … | Continue reading
Your iPhone 16 camera has 48 megapixels. Astronomy’s latest toy has 3,200. That’s because the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side. It has to be able to do this because of its unique missio … | Continue reading
A deadly fungus has been turned into a potent cancer-fighting compound after researchers isolated a new class of molecules from it. Aspergillus flavus, a toxic crop fungus linked to deaths in the excavations of ancient tombs—such as that of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamon—was recentl … | Continue reading
Tiny robots could help fix leaky water pipes without having to dig up roads and sidewalks, thanks to a British team. The miniature machines called ‘Pipebots’ are the same size as a toy car and can track down leaks underground. They can also identify potential issues before they e … | Continue reading
This image of the Sculptor Galaxy was stitched together with 100 exposures over 50 hours of observations to make a never-before-seen visual, 65,000 light years from side to side. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers observed this … | Continue reading
In a laboratory model of Down Syndrome, the CIRSPR gene editing technique successfully removed the duplicate chromosome that causes the condition while also augmenting cell function and fitness, and reduced biological aging. While the authors are far from even planning a clinical … | Continue reading
As is so often the case in Greek history, real events merge with myth—and there’s no more perfect example than the island of Ithaca, renowned as the homeland of ‘Odysseus’ the hero king in Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. Now, at an archeological dig there, tiles bearing the name … | Continue reading
Needles 1,000 times thinner than a human hair could replace painful cancer biopsies and render obsolete the traditional methods of diagnosing diseases, according to new research. The patches containing tens of millions of ‘nanoneedles’ offer a “painless and less invasive” alterna … | Continue reading
An active compound in ginger root may inhibit the growth of cancer tumors via a sabotage of their metabolic pathways. Published in Nature Scientific Reports by a team at Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU), the study demonstrated that a ginger-derived molecule known as EMC shuts … | Continue reading
Researchers have recorded a video sighting of a three-foot-long deep-sea squid species that’s never been filmed nor seen alive. Gonatus antarcticus squid, an elusive squid found only in the frigid waters around Antarctica, was discovered on Christmas Day by the Schmidt Ocean Inst … | Continue reading
Japanese scientists were thrilled to receive significant interest from the packaging industry over their new seawater-degradable plastic. Breaking apart into nutritious compounds for ocean-borne bacteria in just 2 to 3 hours depending on the size and thickness, the invention coul … | Continue reading
An invention from the UK features diamonds in the first-ever application of the gemstone in battery technology. Promising to last thousands of years, the microwatt power sources are seen as the perfect solution to devices in environments where neither changing batteries nor carry … | Continue reading
Why can’t you tickle yourself? And how come some people aren’t ticklish at all—while some on the autism spectrum are laughing more often? Neuroscientist Konstantina Kilteni believes we should take tickling research more seriously—and she’s working with colleagues in a new tickle … | Continue reading
Japanese scientists have found a way to observe clotting activity in the blood as it happens, without needing invasive procedures. Using a new type of microscope and artificial intelligence, scientists have shown how platelet “clumping” can be tracked in patients with coronary ar … | Continue reading
Dropped off via helicopter on a cliff edge high on a rocky escarpment in South Africa, an observer might have mistaken a pair of herpetologists for Army Rangers. In reality, they were searching for a gecko species not seen in 30 years since the first instance it was recorded. So … | Continue reading
You’ve heard the famous “Blue Danube” waltz—even if the name doesn’t ring any bells. Trust us on this one. Composed by the Austrian “Waltz King” Johann Strauss II, it has been borrowed for every kind of media imaginable, from commercials to Looney Tunes shorts. Today in Europe, a … | Continue reading