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
Fluorescent chambers inside South Dakota’s Wind Cave has given scientists a pathway into theorizing how life could exist on one of Jupiter’s moons. In a cool, NASA-funded experiment, scientists shined an ultraviolet (UV) light around the rocks inside Wind Cave and found that chem … | Continue reading
A new type of golf ball with a special “water-loving” coating could answer the prayers of thousands of golfers. The coating helps average out the speed of a rolling ball, slowing it on faster dry greens and speeding it up on sluggish, wet courses, says the American inventor. Thom … | Continue reading
Archaeology was recently sent into raptures when, for the first time since Tutankhamon was found, a pharaoh’s tomb was discovered and confirmed as such. And despite that happening just one month ago, and ‘King Tut’ being found 103 years before that, archaeologists have confirmed … | Continue reading
As the vernal equinox heralds the first day of spring, all across the world, unique phenomena can be seen on this day alone. For thousands of years humans have known that around the day marked on the Gregorian calendar as March 20th (or 21st, but we’ll get into that later) the da … | Continue reading
Installing safety nets on the Golden Gate Bridge has led to a 73% reduction in suicides, according to new research. The number of people jumping to their deaths from the San Francisco landmark has rapidly declined in the 12 months since safety nets were installed, reveals the stu … | Continue reading
Astronomers have identified 4 exoplanets orbiting the nearest single star to Earth, an effort that had been ongoing for 50 years and produced many false positives. These rather small planets are a stone’s throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instrum … | Continue reading
In Australia, a man was kept alive for 100 days on an artificial heart made of titanium while a donor heart was eventually found. This is the longest-ever period that a man has been kept alive by an artificial heart, giving its developers encouragement that it can play a major ro … | Continue reading
Solar is one of the best solutions to the growing demand for renewable green energy. However, while conventional solar panels contribute to clean energy production, their disposal presents several environmental challenges. Now, a groundbreaking innovation may change that: researc … | Continue reading
The full moon in March will appear orange-red in the early morning sky as a result of a total lunar eclipse, and North Americans are positioned perfectly to see it. Sometimes called a Blood Moon in the media for the coloration, it should probably be called a coral or a jasper moo … | Continue reading
Most adults, especially considering what happened 5 years ago, now understand at least a little of how the human immune system works. But a new study out of Israel has demonstrated that even after 120 years of research, there was a whole new component of that system which is now … | Continue reading
The science of epigenetics, or the adaptive changes to DNA in response to life stressors, may have uncovered a new and dynamic antimalarial medication. Plasmodium falciparum, aka malaria, remains the most deadly infectious disease faced by man, a position it has maintained for th … | Continue reading
The little country of Albania was recently discovered to be harboring a giant secret: the largest geothermally-heated underground lake in the world. Discovered in 2021 by Czech scientists, geopolitical troubles on the border region with Greece saw them depart before a proper inve … | Continue reading
A new study has identified several corresponding lines of evidence which all point like a divining rod to citrus fruit being associated with lower risks of developing depression. Clinical depression affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, 70% of whom fail to respond to … | Continue reading
A component found in all fungi may provide a shield that prevents flu-related lung damage, according to a new Canadian study. The preclinical trial uncovered how beta-glucan—which is found in all mushrooms, and also yeast, oats, and barley—can ‘reprogram’ immune cells to prevent … | Continue reading
Engineered cartilage from nasal septum cells is helping treat complex knee damage, according to researchers in Switzerland who have developed the implants. Their new study shows that giving the cartilage implants more time to mature “significantly” improved clinical efficiency an … | Continue reading
In 1969 NASA live-streamed a moon landing on television by mounting a robust TV camera on the Apollo 11 and pointed it toward the steps—but, oh, how technology has changed in 55 years. Firefly Aerospace engineers were cheering last Sunday as their Blue Ghost lunar spacecraft touc … | Continue reading
People who suffered blinding eye injuries have had their sight restored using a new form of stem cell therapy. American surgeons took stem cells from the patient’s healthy eye and transplanted them into the injured eye, successfully repairing previously “irreversible” damage. The … | Continue reading
Unique geologic formations found in Western Australia have led a team of researchers to conclude that an asteroid struck the area around 3.57 billion years ago which would make it the oldest such impact site known. And it wouldn’t be even close. The second-oldest impact crater da … | Continue reading
Drone footage has revealed that the narwhal actively wields its long tusk for hunting and play behavior, opening up whole new fields of study over one of the oceans’ most charismatic denizens. The scientific name of the narwhal (Monodon monoceros) literally translates to “one too … | Continue reading
A vibrational therapy could be used to replicate a strengthening activity like weightlifting in patients whose bones are broken or brittle, suggests a new study. It addresses an interesting paradox: bones become denser when subjected to mechanical force and load—which is true eve … | Continue reading
Phantom limb is one of those enduring medical mysteries: that someone could feel sensations in a hand which had long ago been lost to amputation. A little like harnessing the placebo effect, scientists have been able to stimulate nerve endings on the skin of an amputated arm whic … | Continue reading
In a degraded and semi-arid farming area in India, simple science-driven changes to the landscape have colored the horizon, and a village’s fortunes, with green. In the Latur district in the central western state of Maharashtra, 40 years of erratic rainfall, groundwater depletion … | Continue reading
A recent LiDAR survey in southern Mexico has revealed that a known site of pre-Colombian fortifications was actually a thriving urban center of 5,000 people or more. Despite being known to Spanish explorers, modern historians, and archaeologists, the site of Guiengola in the hill … | Continue reading
Reprinted from permission from World at Large A breakthrough in packaged tuna preparation has been found to reduce mercury content in the fish by 35%. Consumption of tuna has long been limited, especially by pregnant women and nursing mothers, for the known fact that the fish acc … | Continue reading
From the sands of Egypt’s Western Desert, a nearly complete skull of a prehistoric apex predator offers scientists the chance to understand ever so much about how climate change affects animal extinction. Belonging to a fully extinct order of carnivores called Hyaenodonts (hyena- … | Continue reading
A huge dinosaur footprint dating back 127 million years has been found on a UK beach after a rainstorm. A 23-year-old fossil guide spotted the three-toed print on the Isle of Wight. Joe Thompson says the one-meter long footprint revealed itself after storms stripped the beach of … | Continue reading
Stanford University chemists have developed a practical, low-cost way to permanently remove atmospheric carbon dioxide, the main driver of global warming and climate change. The new process uses heat to transform common minerals into materials that spontaneously pull carbon from … | Continue reading
A modern-looking diving bird was living somewhere in Antarctica when a massive asteroid struck the Earth and caused the dinosaurs to go extinct. But unlike the dinosaurs, this early ancestor of today’s waterfowl survived that mass extinction event, and a nearly complete skull has … | Continue reading
Maybe you were a kid the first time you ever saw dry ice: remember how strange it seemed compared to water ice? NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently captured a short clip of dry ice clouds lit up with colors from the setting Sun drifting over the Red Planet. Martian clouds are al … | Continue reading
Research into a cancer treatment over 10 years in the making has born remarkable fruit with the juicy potential to greatly improve existing radiation therapy. Throughout the 21st century, GNN has reported on how cancer research has broadened, expanded, become more precise and mor … | Continue reading
A protein found in oysters has been identified as an outright killer of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and to strengthen antibiotics’ overall effectiveness. The discovery was made by scientists in Australia who found the protein in the bivalve’s ‘hemolymphs,’ cells that act a lit … | Continue reading
NASA sent a valentine to space lovers on social media this week posting images of heart shapes found on Mars. The pictures were all captured from the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) in the past decades—but with Valentine’s Day on Friday, it was the perfect moment to share the compilat … | Continue reading
When parsing through images meant to test the camera on a new space telescope, scientists recently recognized a striking and rare phenomenon that had been perfectly captured by the craft. A galaxy, shining in the distance, was tightly encircled by a halo of white light—also known … | Continue reading
What if the best course of action in the fight against cancer isn’t to fight at all? Rather than killing these mutated cells, a new study from Korea presents a treatment wherein they can be changed back to healthy cells at a key moment. The authors liken the method to the moment … | Continue reading
An international satellite monitoring collaboration is being formed to track the population of a keystone species in the waters around Antarctica. Aimed at providing sophisticated and accurate data to help inform decisions about fishing in the Southern Ocean, it will use changes … | Continue reading
Graying hair is a hallmark of aging and often considered an inevitable part of growing older. However, recent research from Nagoya University in Japan suggests that an antioxidant might suppress this process. Researchers Masashi Kato and Takumi Kagawa identified luteolin, an anti … | Continue reading
A new study evaluated a low-cost yet effective way to combat bacterial resistance using curcumin–the natural yellow plant compound in turmeric. In 2017, a tragic death in a Nevada hospital was linked to a new strain of bacteria that had developed a resistance to 26 different anti … | Continue reading
Got any plans for December 22nd, 2032? You may consider canceling them, as there’s a non-zero percent chance that an asteroid will strike the Earth with an explosive force equivalent to thousands of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima. But don’t worry! Despite being the only id … | Continue reading
The most durable plastic polymers used in society are never recycled, but a new discovery from Cornell University may be about to change that. Known as crosslinked thermosets, or thermosets for short, these plastics can be found in bowling balls, replacement hip joints, and car t … | Continue reading
A heart pump no bigger than a fountain pen has just been approved by the FDA for use in children, having already saved adult lives in a revolutionary way. Cardiologists don’t even need to open a chest cavity to install the Impella 5.5, the world’s smallest heart pump that can kee … | Continue reading
Researchers from the University of Waterloo have discovered that a special form of charcoal is highly effective at absorbing chromium and transforming it from a toxic industrial waste form into the form seen in nutritional supplements. Chromium is a heavy metal that exists in two … | Continue reading
Scientists in China experimenting with rice cultivars have been able to crossbreed a non-GMO variety that produces 70% less methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is emitted in large amounts through rice cultivation. The team is now seeking to demonstrate the importance of this ne … | Continue reading
Cats are wearing hats for science—as researchers use brain scans to understand pain in arthritic felines, and find a way to soothe it. It’s a world first for veterinary scientists at the University of Montreal (UdeM): they found a way to scan the brains of cats while they’re stil … | Continue reading