NASA mission finds key ingredients for life in asteroid samples
"Our odds of finding life elsewhere are increasing"
AI creates glowing protein that would've taken nature 500 million years to evolve
Fast-forwarding evolution
Supersonic travel is making a comeback as newly developed aircraft breaks the sound barrier
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 hits Mach 1.1
New vaccine from MIT and Caltech could prevent future coronavirus outbreaks
Targeting the regions in a virus that don't mutate as rapidly
Chinese artificial sun shatters world record with 1,066-second plasma confinement
A crucial milestone in fusion research
Power-Over-Skin technology paves the way for wearables without batteries
Power is directly proportional to the distance from the transmitter
Serendipitous discovery of "dark oxygen" sparks controversy and new expeditions
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
CERN's particle accelerator tech is being reimagined to blast cancer in under a second
When accelerators start accelerating cancer cures
World's largest telescopes threatened by light pollution
$10B hydrogen facility could increase sky brightness by 10%
Lithium-sulfur battery advancements promise faster charging and longer life
Research could lead to new, commercially-viable batteries
Robots the size of rice grains aim to revolutionize brain surgery
Far less invasive than traditional tools
NASA wants to send a football field-sized radiator into space for its nuclear-electric Mars rocket
It will be sent up in pieces and assembled by robots
Millionaire who wants to live forever stops taking longevity drug over concerns it sped up aging
And caused skin infections
WTF?! Bryan Johnson, the tech millionaire famed for his many attempts to reverse aging and extend his life, including injecting himself with plasma from his teenage son, has run into an issue with one of the 54 different supplements he takes every day: it was making him older, not younger.
2024 was the hottest year on record, surpassing the critical 1.5°C threshold
Last year also saw the hottest-ever day on record
Stanford-led study reveals exercise is the most powerful medical intervention
Research explores how exercise counteracts disease at a molecular level
Next-gen EV batteries could last decades, researchers show the potential of single-crystal electrode tech
The battery lifespan could be around 20,000 cycles or 8 million kilometers
Scientists wonder if robots can overtake human astronauts in space exploration
Could human spacewalkers become obsolete relics?
Researchers successfully train robots to perform surgery by watching videos
This could help address the looming shortage of surgeons in the US
What just happened? In a significant leap forward in medical technology, researchers have developed autonomous surgical robots. However, there are many issues that need to be addressed before these machines are actually used on humans.
Hidden underground hydrogen reserves could power the entire Earth for centuries
There are practical limitations to harvesting this energy source however
NASA discovers bizarre "sideways" black hole in distant galaxy
Scientists have described it as a galactic "crime scene"
Biological computing offers path to drastically reduced energy consumption for digital processing
A 2023 paper demonstrated the possibility of ultra-low-energy computing
EPA approves road construction project in Florida that will use radioactive byproduct
Environmental groups criticize EPA decision on pilot project
MIT's light-activated antiferromagnetic memory could replace today's ferromagnets
The breakthrough could enable next-gen memory chips with improved density and durability
Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds
They also explain why we can only think one thought at a time
What just happened? Scientists have discovered that our brains process thoughts much more slowly than previously believed. This surprising finding has its roots in our evolutionary history and sheds more light on why our minds work the way they do.
Engineers achieve quantum teleportation over active internet cables
"This is incredibly exciting because nobody thought it was possible"