MIT Chemical Engineers Are Cracking the Carbon Removal Challenge
Verdox, founded by MIT chemical engineers and winner of an XPRIZE Carbon Removal milestone award, is working to move the needle on climate change. By…
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Groundbreaking Research Exposes Immune System’s “Off Button”
Scientists Uncover Remarkable Atomic Behavior in Thermoelectric Materials
Shocking Study Finds Decreased Proteins – Not Amyloid Plaques – Cause Alzheimer’s Disease
Anxiety Can Lead to Premature Births
New RNA Tool Can Illuminate Brain Circuits and Edit Specific Cells
Volcanic Super-Eruptions Are Millions of Years in the Making
Do Stars Remember Their Past? Study Sheds New Light on Old Theories of Stellar Evolution
Promising Anti-Cancer Drug Could Also Help With COVID
Conventional Computers Can Learn To Solve Tricky Quantum Problems in Physics and Chemistry
Physicists prove that classical machine learning models can improve predictions about quantum materials. Quantum computers have generated a lot of buzz and for good reason….
Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Monstrous Global Tsunami With Mile-High Waves
Sixty-six million years ago a miles-wide asteroid struck Earth, wiping out nearly all the dinosaurs and around three-quarters of the planet’s plant and animal species….
NASA, SpaceX Proceeding to Crew-5 Launch to International Space Station
NASA will provide live coverage of the upcoming launch activities for the SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff of Crew-5 is…
Even Moderate Exercise Can Greatly Increase Brain Size
The effects are more pronounced in brain areas with high oxygen demand. Exercise keeps both the body and the mind healthy, but little is known…
Caltech’s Breakthrough New Nanophotonic Chip “Squeezes” More Out of Light
Electronic computing and communications have advanced significantly since the days of radio telegraphy and vacuum tubes. In fact, consumer devices now contain levels of processing…
Parallels to HIV: Another Fatal Monkey Virus Could Be Poised for Spillover to Humans
Evoking parallels to HIV, authors are calling on global health community to be vigilant. According to new research, an obscure family of viruses, already endemic…
Scientists Show Transmission of Epigenetic Memory Across Multiple Generations
Changing the epigenetic marks on chromosomes results in altered gene expression in offspring and in grandoffspring, demonstrating ‘transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.’ Without changing the genetic code…
Spectacular Planetary-Scale “Heat Wave” Discovered in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
An unexpected ‘heat wave’ has been discovered in Jupiter’s atmosphere. It reaches a scorching temperature of 700 degrees Celsius (1300 degrees Fahrenheit) and extends 130,000…
“Really Impressive” – Astronomers Capture the First Wide-Field Snapshots of X-Ray Universe
EP-WXT Pathfinder has released its first results. EP-WXT Pathfinder, an experimental prototype of a module that will ultimately be part of the wide-field X-ray telescope…
