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- Pig-Monkey Chimeras Have Been Brought to Term For The First TimeThis is a big milestone for the future of lab-grown organs.... Read more »
- New Details About The Infamous 'CRISPR Babies' Experiment Have Just Been RevealedThere's a lot that went wrong.... Read more »
- Humans Already Slowed The Climate Crisis Once, New Research ShowsThe Montreal Protocol worked, and we can do it again.... Read more »
- Your Irritable Bowel Issues Could Be Caused by a Little-Known Gut ConditionHere's what you need to know about SIBO.... Read more »
- Sustainable new material for carbon dioxide captureScientists have developed a new material for capturing carbon dioxide. The new material offers many benefits -- it is sustainable, has a high capture rate, and has low operating costs.... Read more »
- You create your own false information, study findsAlong with partisan news outlets and political blogs, there's another surprising source of misinformation on controversial topics -- it's you. A new study found that people given accurate statistics on a controversial issue tended to misremember those numbers to fit commonly held beliefs.... Read more »
- Closing critical gap in weather forecastingScientists working on the next frontier of weather forecasting are hoping that weather conditions 3-to-4 weeks out will soon be as readily available as seven-day forecasts. Having this type of weather information--called subseasonal forecasts--in the hands of the public and emergency managers can provide the critical lead time necessary to... Read more »
- Dramatic health benefits following air pollution reductionReductions in air pollution yielded fast and dramatic impacts on health-outcomes, as well as decreases in all-cause morbidity, according to new findings.... Read more »
- Electronic map reveals 'rules of the road' in superconductorUsing a clever technique that causes unruly crystals of iron selenide to snap into alignment, physicists have drawn a road map that reveals the quantum ''rules of the road'' that electrons must follow in the enigmatic superconductor.... Read more »
- European industries lead new Graphene Flagship projects to shape EU's future(Graphene Flagship) The Graphene Flagship and leading European industries will co-fund a total of 92 million EUR to catalyse the commercialisation of graphene-enabled products.... Read more »
- Lehigh University professor Jeffrey Rickman elected as Fellow of ASM International(Lehigh University) Jeffrey Rickman, a Lehigh University professor of materials science and engineering and physics, has been elected as a Fellow of ASM International, the leading association of engineers and scientists in the field of materials science. He was recognized for 'significant contributions in computational materials science of defects and... Read more »
- Deeper understanding of irregular heartbeat may lead to more effective treatment(Imperial College London) Researchers at Imperial have shown how the chaotic electrical signals underlying irregular heart rhythms lead to the failure of standard treatments.... Read more »
- A sustainable new material for carbon dioxide capture(Chalmers University of Technology) In a joint research study from Sweden, scientists from Chalmers University of Technology and Stockholm University have developed a new material for capturing carbon dioxide. The new material offers many benefits -- it is sustainable, has a high capture rate, and has low operating costs. The... Read more »
- Ben-Gurion University researchers develop new method to remove dust on solar panels(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Particle removal increased from 41% on hydrophilic smooth Si wafers to 98% on superhydrophobic Si-based nanotextured surfaces. The researchers confirmed these results by measuring the adhesion of a micron-sized particle to the flat and nanotextured substrate using an atomic force microscope. They found... Read more »
- Evidence of New X17 Particle Reported, but Scientists Are WaryCould the mysterious particle be our window into studying dark matter? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Reassessment of Alzheimer's Drug Raises Hope--and ConcernsWill the benefits of aducanumab be enough to justify FDA approval, given its small benefit and high price? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- A Tiny Leak Led to a Massive, Unexpected Collapse at Kilauea VolcanoIts caldera’s dramatic, surprisingly slow collapse could point to other risks worldwide -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Now Hear This: New Fossils Reveal Early Ear-Bone EvolutionA change in chewing led to the emergence of the mammalian middle ear -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Can We Identify Invasive Species before They Invade?Scientists uncover patterns that predict which insects will harm North America’s conifers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- AI is helping tackle one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathsMachine-learning algorithms are being used to tackle the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the fiendishly difficult Millennium Prize Problems... Read more »
- How I made the world’s most accurate thermometer – using soundJoin Michael De Podesta as he explains how he made the world’s most precise thermometer – and demonstrates its principle live on stage... Read more »
- North America’s first English settlers were unlucky scientistsThe English founded Jamestown, Virginia in the 17th century to search for gold. They didn’t find much, but that wasn’t for lack of effort or scientific skill... Read more »
- The universe tends towards disorder. But how come nobody knows why?Entropy is the physicist’s magic word, invoked to answer to some of the biggest questions in cosmology. Yet a quantum rethink may be needed to tell us what it actually is... Read more »
- Amazon enters quantum computing race with cloud quantum processorsAmazon has combined three types of quantum computing processors from D-Wave Systems, IonQ, and Rigetti Computing into a cloud service to test quantum algorithms... Read more »
- AI is helping tackle one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathsMachine-learning algorithms are being used to tackle the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the fiendishly difficult Millennium Prize Problems... Read more »
- At least five dead after White Island volcano eruption in New ZealandA volcanic island in New Zealand has erupted, killing at least five people with dozens more missing... Read more »
- North America’s first English settlers were unlucky scientistsThe English founded Jamestown, Virginia in the 17th century to search for gold. They didn’t find much, but that wasn’t for lack of effort or scientific skill... Read more »
- Scientists issue wake-up call on dangerous loss of oxygen from oceansThe world’s oceans have lost 2 per cent of their oxygen on average over the past 50 years, alarming scientists who warn that the trend will impact fisheries... Read more »
- Interstellar comet Borisov is about to pass close to Earth and the sunAstronomers are about to get their best opportunity to observe the interstellar comet Borisov as it reaches its closest point to Earth and the sun on 8 December... Read more »