World’s Smallest Pacemaker is Activated by Light
Tiny device can be inserted with a syringe, then dissolves after it’s no longer needed Northwestern University engineers have developed…
Physicists Use Quantum Entanglement to Crack Mystery of Strange Metals
Discovery has potential to transform energy use by improving superconductors Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange…
These Electronics-Free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer
Imagine a robot that can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right…
Chimpanzees Act as ‘Engineers’, Choosing Materials to Make Tools Based on Structural and Mechanical Properties
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max…
New Eye Drops Slow Vision Loss in Animals
Treatment shows potential to slow the progression of human degenerative eye diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa Researchers at the National Institutes…
Squirrel-Inspired Leaping Robot Can Stick a Landing on a Branch
Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a…
Black Holes: Not Endings, but Beginnings? New Research Could Revolutionize Our Understanding of the Universe
New research suggests black holes may transition into ‘white holes’, ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe,…
QIA Researchers Create First Operating System for Quantum Networks
Breakthrough achievement paves the way for practical quantum internet applications Delft, The Netherlands: Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) researchers at TU…
Mysterious Phenomenon at Center of Galaxy Could Reveal New Kind of Dark Matter
A mysterious phenomenon at the centre of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter.…
Paralyzed Man Moves Robotic Arm with His Thoughts
Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm through a device…
ChatGPT on the Couch? How to Calm a Stressed-Out AI
Research shows that AI language models, such as ChatGPT, are sensitive to emotional content. Especially if it is negative, such…
Comprehensive Resource Describes Functions of More than 20,000 Human Genes
A new resource from the Gene Ontology Consortium, a comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes,…
What Makes Mars the ‘Red’ Planet? Scientists Have Some New Ideas
Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as just the…
How to Get a Robot Collective to Act Like a Smart Material
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like…
Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies Smell ‘Woody,’ ‘Spicy’ and ‘Sweet’
Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the…
Earth’s Inner Core is Undergoing a Transformation
The surface of the Earth’s inner core may be changing, as shown by a new study from USC scientists that…
EUCLID DISCOVERS A STUNNING EINSTEIN RING
Euclid blasted off on its six-year mission to explore the dark Universe on 1 July 2023. Before the spacecraft could…
LARGEST RADIO JET EVER SEEN IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE
The monster jet spans at least 200,000 light-years and formed when the Universe was less than 10% of its current…
DON’T KNOW SOMETHING? APES CAN TELL
Bonobos realize when humans miss information and communicate accordingly To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who…
Blue Origin Mimics Moon Gravity on 1st-of-its-Kind New Shepard Research Rocket Launch
Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space. The company, which was founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos,…
Blue Origin to Launch New Shepard Moon-Gravity Mission on Feb. 4 After Glitch
Blue Origin is now targeting Tuesday (Feb. 4) for its first-ever moon-gravity mission. The company first tried to launch the…
NASA astronaut Suni Williams sets new record on 5.5-hour spacewalk outside ISS
Suni Williams surpasses the most time by a woman on EVA during a spacewalk with Butch Wilmore outside the International…
Moon is Not as ‘Geologically Dead’ as Previously Thought
Scientists have studied the moon’s surface for decades to help piece together its complex geological and evolutionary history. Evidence from…
Researchers Discover New Way to Store Hydrogen Using Lignin Jet Fuel
An international team of scientists has discovered a way to store and release volatile hydrogen using lignin-based jet fuel that…
Scientists Discover Exoplanet with Supersonic Winds — the Fastest in the Known Universe
5.6 miles per second (9 kilometers per second), or 20,500 miles per hour (33,000 kilometers per hour) — the fastest…
Astronomers Thought They Understood Fast Radio Bursts: A Recent One Calls that into Question
The new ability to pinpoint sources of fast radio bursts places one recent burst in a surprising location Astronomer Calvin…
‘Heavy’ Dark Matter Would Rip Our Understanding of the Universe Apart, New Research Suggests
Dark matter can’t be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. buy…
Astrophysicists Reveal Structure of 74 Exocomet Belts Orbiting Nearby Stars in Landmark Survey
Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have — for the first time — imaged a large number…
Deep Learning Designs Proteins Against Deadly Snake Venom
New proteins not found in nature have now been designed to counteract certain highly poisonous components of snake venom. The…
X-ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously
One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise…
New AI Predicts Inner Workings of Cells
In the same way that ChatGPT understands human language, a new AI model developed by Columbia computational biologists captures the…
Citizen Science Reveals that Jupiter’s Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice
Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter’s clouds.…
Can NASA’s Troubled Mars Sample Return Mission Be Saved?
NASA wants to get Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a…
A Tour de Force: Engineers Discover New ‘All-Optical’ Nanoscale Sensors of Force
Photon-avalanching nanosensors access previously unreachable environments and could disrupt technologies from robotics to cellular biophysics and medicine to space travel…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Phones Home after Surviving Historic Close Sun Flyby. It’s Alive!
The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to “touch the sun” on Christmas…
Scientists Await Signal from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe after Historic Close Sun Flyby. Will it Phone Home?
The spacecraft made the closest ever flyby if the sun on Christmas Eve, but it’s been silent since Dec. 20.…
New Evidence Exists for Hidden Water Reservoirs and Rare Magmas on Ancient Mars
Rice University research findings have ‘significant implications for habitability’ A new study explores how variations in Mars’ crustal thickness during…
Origins of Lunar Water and its Connection to Earth’s Early History
A team of international scientists has unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape…
Does the Exoplanet Trappist-1 b Have an Atmosphere After All?
New observations reveal the challenges of detecting planetary atmospheres Recent measurements with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cast doubt…
Devices With Operation Speeds 1000 Times Faster?
A new class of magnetism called altermagnetism has been imaged for the first time in a new study. The findings…