In the usually sleepy Swiss town of Mulegns, pop. 11, a dramatic white tower rises four stories into the Alpine air—the tallest 3D-printed structure on earth. One might imagine such a technological marvel to be debuted in a square in the Silicon Valley cities of San Jose or San F … | Continue reading
For the 10% of the global population that live near an active and potentially dangerous volcano, help may be forthcoming from an unlikely source: trees. In advance of volcanic eruptions, carbon dioxide gases are released from the magma below the earth. The trees absorbing it beco … | Continue reading
The title of a 2,000-year-old Greek philosophical text has been read by computer scientists using AI to study scrolls buried by the eruption of Vesuvius. On Vices was written by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before Vesuvius’ eruption, and s … | Continue reading
An absolutely staggering new perception of our Moon and Sun was captured by a little-known NASA mission called PUNCH. Showing a halo of light surrounding an eclipsed sun with the Moon passing through, it was taken during PUNCH’s commissioning stage—a step to ensure all the equipm … | Continue reading
The first human bladder transplant was successfully carried out at University of California LA, an attempt that has been four years in the making. There are naturally many unknowns associated with the procedure, which has previously only been done on cadavers, such as how well th … | Continue reading
Physicists experimenting with a giant particle accelerator accidently proved medieval alchemists right: that base metals could be turned into gold. While studying electromagnetic disassociation and beam losses, the physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) saw that the lea … | Continue reading
Geologists recently unearthed the vertebrae of a giant prehistoric marine lizard during fieldwork. Measuring a full 7 inches across, an extrapolation of that size would place the animal among the largest ever to swim in the prehistoric precursor to the Gulf of Mexico. “I … was co … | Continue reading
A Dutch robot with neither hardware nor software can nevertheless reach incredible speeds with its soft legs powered only by air and simple physics. Able to walk, hop, and swim without the aid of electronics or AI, its top speed will see it cross a distance equal to 30x the lengt … | Continue reading
There’s something make-believe, almost Pokémon-like in a new species of bacteria found living on a mud flat in Oregon—a species which is basically like electric wiring, and which could inspire a revolution in bioelectronic interfaces. A type of “cable” bacteria, the new lifeform … | Continue reading
There’s an old saying that if goods are crossing borders, generally soldiers don’t, a saying that new research has shown to be true even in the case of the warlike Aztecs in central Mexico. A new study sheds light on the economic networks, rituals and political influence the Mexi … | Continue reading
Under the streets of a Belgian city center, an Imperial Roman drainage pipe section made from several hollowed-out tree trunks was recently discovered during excavation work. That the settlement had some form of underground plumbing system suggests that modern-day Leuven was an i … | Continue reading
There’s an old saying, often ignored in modern Western medicine, that an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure. Establishing a new broad-spectrum, 20-year testing program for its younger generation, Poland has passed this Franklinian test of medical wisdom whose value has bee … | Continue reading
One of Australia’s most biodiverse offshore islands enjoys the company to two palm trees that despite appearing quite similar are actually different species. That this happened: that two species evolved from a common ancestor despite no geographical separation, means biologists h … | Continue reading
Antarctica was in the news this week in a surprising way: it was gaining ice, rather than losing it. While Antarctic ice sheet loss has averaged around 147 gigatons per year for the period between 2010 and 2020, a remarkable reversal occurred at the opening of this decade. Writin … | Continue reading
Scientists in San Diego are working alongside Native Americans to plumb the genetic depths of medicinal plants in the name of potentially commercializing them as medicines. Researchers from the renowned Salk Institute for Biological Studies work extensively at the Medicinal Plant … | Continue reading
A new technique that uses sound waves to separate materials for recycling could help prevent potentially harmful chemicals leaching into the environment. Researchers at the University of Leicester in England have achieved a major milestone in fuel cell recycling, developing a tec … | Continue reading
MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the “free-range” particles that until now were predicted but never directly observed. Their findings will help scientists visualize never-before-s … | Continue reading
A new study examining 7,000 years of human consumption of grapes found that the domestication of the fruit occurred gradually rather than suddenly, and that wild varieties continued to be used for wine making long after domesticated species emerged. The data leaves one to with li … | Continue reading
It’s long been suspected to the point of certainty that heavier elements like gold are created inside supernovae, and that over the billions of years Earth has existed, the dust from these explosions swept much of the periodic table onto it. But a new hypothesis has been develope … | Continue reading
For the first time ever, scientists have demonstrated that it’s possible to send quantum communications using existing commercial telecommunication infrastructure. Sent across 150 miles of commercial fiber optic lines in Germany, including through three telecom data centers in Fr … | Continue reading
Using modern digital rendering of ancient depictions, scientists have presented evidence that a Chinese astronomer created the first star catalogue more than 100 years before the Greeks accomplished the same. Called the Star Manual of Master Shi, and complied by Shi Shen, it was … | Continue reading
The National Institutes of Health recently announced that in order to improve the quality of science used in drug development, the agency would favor grant proposals that move away from animal testing. The FDA, which had previously announced a similar change, described the decisi … | Continue reading
A revolutionary new antidote neutralizes the venom of 19 of the world’s deadliest snakes, including the black mamba, king cobra, and tiger snakes. Researchers used antibodies from a human donor with a “hyper-immunity” to snake venom to develop the most broadly effective antivenom … | Continue reading
Scientists in Singapore have broken a long-standing limitation on the ability to generate electricity from flowing water, suggesting that another elemental force of nature could be leveraged for renewable electricity: rain. With the simplest and smallest scale test setup, the tea … | Continue reading
With its ability to aid in enhancing neuroplasticity, the famous hallucinogenic compound LSD has been theorized as a treatment option for neurological disorders like cognitive decline and schizophrenia. One wouldn’t want to dose a schizophrenic with LSD, but following the synthes … | Continue reading
Asteroids are hugely significant features of our solar system, and a NASA space probe just sent back a photo of one as it passed close-by, revealing its odd, peanut-like shape. NASA’s Lucy space probe is on a 12-year journey to study Jupiter’s Trojan and main-belt asteroids, aimi … | Continue reading
An experiment in human photoreceptors allowed scientists to recently define a new color, imperceptible by the human eye, that lies along the blue-green spectrum but is different from the two. The team, who experimented on themselves and others, hope their findings could one day h … | Continue reading
The state-of-the-art Perseverance Mars rover has been sampling and studying the Martian geology at the fastest rate since the mission began after NASA scientists found a special area containing “all they hoped for.” Since its landing in the summer of 2021, Perseverance has been e … | Continue reading
After 300 hours of continuous operations, a 3 megawatt demonstration power plant in South Korea has offered a glimpse into the future of natural gas burning. Utilizing technology that offers the potential for natural gas plants to capture an additional 150,000 metric tons of CO2 … | Continue reading
Affectionate mothering in childhood may have a lasting impact on important personality traits, potentially influencing life outcomes such as educational achievement, economic success, and health and well-being. Found in the results of a new twin study, the data suggests that posi … | Continue reading
GNN has reported on multiple occasions how artificial intelligence is being leveraged to detect signs of cancer. Now, a team of high schoolers is using AI to help their community combat one of the deadlier forms: oral cancer. Using a photo taken on a smartphone, the Oral Scan app … | Continue reading
With nothing more than the beast’s footprints, paleontologists in Canada have identified a new tail club-swinging armored dinosaur. The 100-million-year-old fossilized prints were found at two different locations in the Canadian Rockies. Researchers explained that there are two m … | Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from World at Large. In a fascinating new study, several dozen participants were separated into groups and fed either a fish oil supplement or fish itself, and the supplement proved more effective at delivering omega-3 fatty acids into the body than the … | Continue reading
An English university has developed an AI-detection system that can identify a picture of an invasive Asian hornet in yet another innovative and positive application of the emerging technology. Not quite the “murder hornets” that invaded America a half-decade ago, the Asian horne … | Continue reading
In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of Africa, thousands of stone tools made by early humans are revealing connections between prehistoric peoples of the continent. Archaeologists that made the discovery called it an “important” find that hints at the ways in wh … | Continue reading
A simple blood test costing less than $10 could prevent hundreds of heart attacks and other adverse cardiac events per year. Troponin is a protein found in heart muscle cells that if detected in the blood stream means the heart has been damaged in some way: a key indicator of car … | Continue reading
During the last seven years, a global team of more than 150 scientists collaborated on the most complicated neuroscience experiment ever attempted—and they’ve released their findings this week. From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, the MICrONS Project compl … | Continue reading
A tech firm has just demonstrated that a computer chip using light and the speed at which it moves for processing is capable of handling real-world computer workloads at revolutionary speeds and energy efficiency. The firm’s CEO has called it a “technology marvel” that stands to … | Continue reading
Scientists in Pennsylvania have created a kind of antiviral chewing gum made from the Australian pea plant. Containing a strong antiviral protein, the researches have used it to reduce the viral load in patients’ mouths for both influenza and herpes simplex viruses. Seasonal infl … | Continue reading
Most times you read about a ‘cure’ in the news, you’ll find out towards the end of the story that it’s just a ‘potential’ cure, or that someone has been ‘seemingly cured.’ But from Palm Beach, Florida comes the story that 72-year-old Orlando Avendaño has been cured of his essenti … | Continue reading
After a Chicago-sized iceberg broke off from Antarctica, a research vessel changed plans and went to explore an underwater world never seen before by humans. Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Falkor (too), “seized upon the moment” that was presented … | Continue reading
Two researchers in the US and Australia have discovered important mechanisms that prevent B cells from attacking the body’s own tissues in autoimmune diseases like arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis—and in the process have won a prestigious prize. Normally, the body’s immun … | Continue reading
The nearly complete specimen of a known plesiosaur species is opening scientists’ eyes to the diversification of these ancient marine reptiles during the Early Jurassic period. Found in southern Germany, Plesiopterys wildi, a relatively small species measuring 10 feet long, is th … | Continue reading
After 12 years of research and development, a team of Canadian chemists has created what could be the ultimate tool for detecting if your drink has been spiked. More discreet and accurate than anything else on the market, the simple, innocuous-looking drink stir comes with a tip … | Continue reading
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope was finally able to capture bright auroras on Neptune—the most distant planet in our solar system. “In the past, astronomers have seen tantalizing hints of auroral activity on Neptune, for example, in the flyby of NASA’s Voyager 2 in 1989,” said the sp … | Continue reading
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were looking at. The day-old bird, smaller than a pinky finger, had brown fuzz all over its body. When Falk and Taylor walke … | Continue reading
An MIT-startup has found a way to commercialize steel production by the ton using electricity rather than a CO2-emitting blast furnace, promising the beginning of decarbonization in one of humanity’s most carbon-intensive industries. Called Boston Steel, their industrial-scale pr … | Continue reading
A cruelty-free way of making foie gras has been devised by scientists that includes no unnatural additives or additional ingredients. In fact, it helps reduce the amount of biological waste during the butchering process, keeping it out of landfills where it produces climate-warmi … | Continue reading