A new study shows that visiting an art gallery and appreciating the works therein can reduce your risk of heart disease and even boost your immune system. But how could that work? There are some general wellness maxims that could connect the large span between these two seemingly … | Continue reading
It was said that all roads lead to Rome, but from where do all the roads to Rome lead? Using a mountain of data, a team of two dozen scientists have created a digital road atlas of the Roman imperial world, complete with many features you’d recognize from Google Maps. Called Itin … | Continue reading
30 previously unknown deep-sea species, including the carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, have been confirmed from one of the most remote parts of the planet. The animals were collected during a pair of 2025 research cruises to the waters around Antarctica which yielded stunning dis … | Continue reading
A pair of European mathematicians have proven a 300-year-old inference on shapes wrong, and won a bet on behalf of a long-dead Englishmen who got into a famous argument with his prince. The story begins with an experiment: take two gaming dice, put one on top of the other, now th … | Continue reading
The world’s largest spectroscopic telescope has just recorded the first observations from its new perch high in the mountains of Chile. Capable of revealing new information about any cosmic object or phenomena an astronomer cares to study, the telescope will feature in 25 importa … | Continue reading
An extinct species of rhino that lived inside the Arctic Circle 23 million years ago has been discovered. The nearly complete fossilized skeleton was recovered from the fossil-rich lake deposits in Haughton Crater on Devon Island, in the Canadian High Arctic. It is the most north … | Continue reading
Scientists in Australia, which endures the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, have presented multiple lines of evidence to suggest that breastfeeding and childbearing reduces a woman’s risk for developing breast cancer. The scientists started by first pointing out that … | Continue reading
The Bahamas were once crawling with pirates, but have always been crawling with lizards. Do the two have anything in common? Well, much like the old trope of pirates missing legs and hands, many of the lizards of the Bahamas are too. The reason we know this is because there happe … | Continue reading
A “new era” has begun in the development of artificial vision after a combination electronic eye implant—with augmented reality glasses restored vision to blind eyes in patients with untreatable macular degeneration. Those treated with the device could read, on average, five line … | Continue reading
Edited with permission of EarthTalk® and E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What’s new regarding more efficient batteries that can help usher in a new age of renewable energy? Batteries are everywhere—in your phone, your car—even the artificial organs many depend on f … | Continue reading
After 25 years of diligent work, an English botanic gardens is ready to face whatever reality climate change may throw at us, safe in the knowledge that a large chunk of the world’s plant diversity lies safely tucked away underground for future generations. By the numbers, the Mi … | Continue reading
Graphene, a sort-of ‘miracle’ material derived from graphite, was adapted over a decade ago as a potentially revolutionary alternative to silicon and other minerals for the manufacturing of dozens of vital technologies. Now, after years of R&D, some of the material’s original pro … | Continue reading
Vitamin K, an essential nutrient that prevents blood cots and aids in bone health could also be an effective long-term treatment for neurodegenerative diseases. A Japanese study team took the molecule, created a novel, altered form and used it to improve the transcriptions of cel … | Continue reading
Prostate cancer treatment could be “supercharged” by a new way of weakening malignant cells, say scientists. A new “vulnerability” in prostate cancer cells that could improve treatment for the second most common cancer in men worldwide (second only to skin cancer) was discovered … | Continue reading
Worms, plankton, water fleas, sedges, algae, and cattails—the foundations of the food web in Toronto’s Don River ecosystem, simply woke up again after 130 years of entombment, stunning scientists. The Don River was tamed and turned into a canalized, industrial waterfront at the t … | Continue reading
Stretches of land, now hidden beneath the sea, may have given early humans a way to move between what is today Turkey and Europe, according to groundbreaking new research in this little-studied region. The recently published study reveals the first evidence of Paleolithic activit … | Continue reading
A new technology utilizing coffee and plastic waste is designed to capture carbon dioxide from industrial processes before it’s released into the atmosphere, and has been patented by scientists. The highly novel and detailed method with promising potential to reduce environmental … | Continue reading
Scientists have used the root system of mushrooms to create a composting toilet that is odor absorbing, while creating over 2,000 liters of fertilizer and soil a year. Separating solids from from liquids and processing each in different ways using fungal mycelia, the toilet can c … | Continue reading
Swiss researchers have pioneered a method of cultivating metal out of water-based gel, an innovation that promises valuable applications in energy technology. The concept aims to power the production of unique sensors, biomedical devices, or energy conversion and storage componen … | Continue reading
Incorporating machine learning, MIT engineers have developed a way to 3D print alloys that are much stronger. The new printable metal can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum. It’s made from a mix of aluminum and other el … | Continue reading
While bestowing the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week, the winners were praised for their innovation, which one Nobel committee member compared to Hermione’s handbag from the Harry Potter novels. The honored scientists developed materials that are full of microscopic holes … | Continue reading
A new discovery has revealed that relationships between fish and sea anemones are more diverse than those portrayed in Finding Nemo. It suggests that there the former may use the latter as a tool of self defense, while the latter uses the former as transportation. Captured throug … | Continue reading
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a potent psychoactive molecule present in the brain and much of the world’s plant life, but it also may be able to save humans from damage in the event of a stroke. Scientists in Hungary used it to reduce the harmful effects of stroke in animal mod … | Continue reading
Scientists from MIT have created a conductive “nanonetwork” inside a unique concrete mixture that could enable everyday structures like walls, sidewalks, and bridges to store and release electrical energy. It’s perhaps the most ubiquitous man-made material on Earth by weight, but … | Continue reading
The fossil of a tiny fish found in southwestern Alberta, Canada, provides new insight into the origin and evolution of otophysans, the supergroup of fish that includes catfish, carp and tetras—which account for two-thirds of all freshwater species today. The specimen, located wel … | Continue reading
Luna-lovers and stargazers will have a feast on the East coast tonight, as the first supermoon in 11 months will occur just before midnight. A supermoon is a colloquial term for when the Moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth during it’s orbital rotation. This makes the … | Continue reading
NASA recently achieved an incredible milestone in an even more incredible quest: providing broadband to the solar system. But speaking specifically, the organization’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) division just downlinked 15 terabits of data from the Psyche Mission ab … | Continue reading
One of the major things that the mightily impressive James Webb Space Telescope was supposed to reveal has now potentially been revealed. Groundbreaking new research from the University of St. Andrews has identified signs of a possible atmosphere surrounding an Earth-sized exopla … | Continue reading
Until now, holograms have been created using lasers, but now researchers have used a new ensemble of components that could unleash this technology on the market. With their ubiquity in science fiction, and carrying the potential to transform smart devices, communication, gaming, … | Continue reading
Australian shark experts have tested four bite-resistant materials to assess their ability to reduce injuries and blood loss, and found that While internal and crushing injuries may still occur, bite-resistant wetsuits can now be added to the ‘toolkit’ of measures available to re … | Continue reading
University scientists in Chicago have developed a new nanostructure that triples CRISPR’s ability to enter cells, potentially unlocking even more power to treat genetic diseases. With the power to rewrite the genetic code that underlies countless diseases, CRISPR holds immense pr … | Continue reading
In the blockbuster 1993 film Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg’s screenwriters tell the story of scientists who recover dinosaur DNA from a mosquito entombed in amber and use it to clone the animals back into existence. Today, a recent paleontological discovery comes to the very do … | Continue reading
A unique and beautiful mountain-dwelling frog has been bred in captivity and released in the wild—the culmination of years of work by scientists and conservationists. Dwelling in rainforests at higher elevation in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales states in Austra … | Continue reading
Two minerals, known almost exclusively to be linked with microbial metabolism, have been found in a recent drill sample by the Perseverance rover. They sparked a flurry of excitement, and NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy was quick to point out that gold-standard science will … | Continue reading
Patients with clinical depression and treated with naturally-occurring psychedelic compounds are still free of symptoms five years later, according to new research. It’s not a surprise considering the scientific literature on psychedelic therapy, with patients suffering from psyc … | Continue reading
For an Australian marsupial facing extinction on a continent-wide scale, the news of an oncoming drought back in 2001 probably felt like the coming of the end times. But in a surprising break from the narrative, the ampurta (Dasycercus hillieri) a rat-sized predatory marsupial th … | Continue reading
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have demonstrated for the first time that the protein midkine plays a preventative role in Alzheimer’s disease. Midkine is known to accumulate in Alzheimer’s patients, but rather than accelerate the disease, it seems to prevents … | Continue reading
The immune system can be “reprogrammed” to repair the body faster using electrical stimulation to jump-start healing, according to new research Irish scientists discovered that by electrically stimulating “macrophages” – one of the immune system’s key players – they can be reprog … | Continue reading
Listening to happy tunes helped study participants with motion sickness get over their predisposition and recover better, according to new research. Motion sickness is a common condition that happens when you’re moving while sitting still, such as riding in a car. It occurs when … | Continue reading
The clearest pictures ever taken of a solar flare have been captured by the world’s largest solar telescope in Hawaii. The record-breaking images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope are the highest-resolution ever attained, and they revealed astonishing details within a fla … | Continue reading
An international team of astronomers recently found not one, but two of the strangest and rarest of all cosmic objects, and in the same star system no less. Called brown dwarfs, these peculiar objects are invaluable resources for learning about the formation of stars, planets, an … | Continue reading
With 30% of Poland still covered in forests, the nation’s foresters play many critical roles—soon to be aided with the world’s first goat-inspired forestry robot. The robogoat is envisioned to perform many crucial tasks that foresters are trained to do in difficult terrain, inclu … | Continue reading
A new targeted treatment for cats with head and neck cancers may also help save human lives in the future, say scientists. The first-ever clinical trial of the therapy found that more than a third of felines who received treatment (35%) had their disease controlled with minimal s … | Continue reading
In 2021, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tried to build a robot pollinator based on the anatomy of bees. Bees’ flight capabilities are quite sophisticated, but strangely, the MIT roboticists ended up building a robot that sported 8 wings and 4 bodie … | Continue reading
At the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, innovators and motorsport experts competed to race solar-powered cars 2,000 miles across the Australian Outback. Reminiscent of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, when Interwar Period engineers tried to balance speed, maneuverability, and durabilit … | Continue reading
A study team from Oxford University has identified a fermentation method that creates the perfect balanced diet for honey bees who can’t get enough natural pollen. Synthetic pollen substitutes are often fed to bees as a dietary supplement to natural pollen, but until now it’s bee … | Continue reading
A patient with type 1 diabetes has become the first in the world to produce his own insulin via transplanted cells edited with CRISPR. The edits halted his own immune system from attacking the cells, leading to production of insulin in the pancreas as if he never had the disease … | Continue reading
Cancer drugs that have been used for two decades were retooled until they were able to eliminate aggressive tumors in a “remarkable” clinical trial. Two of the patients—one with the deadliest form of skin cancer called melanoma and another with breast cancer—were told their tumor … | Continue reading