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‘The Wire’ Inspired a Fake Turtle Egg That Spies on Poachers
Scientists 3D-printed sea turtle eggs and stuffed transmitters inside. When poachers pulled them out of nests,…
There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from.
Something is showering gold across the universe. But no one knows what it is. Read more…
Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene
A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene’s…
Crew Dragon Suffered More Damage Than Expected on Crewed Mission | Digital Trends
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon suffered some unexpected damage during its first crewed mission recently, but the company…
The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
Simples rules of geometry meant that 5-fold symmetry was impossible as were crystals without a periodic…
What’s the matter with the Universe? About 31%.
If you want to understand the Universe — and we do — you have to understand…
MIT researchers say their fusion reactor is “very likely to work”
A series of new papers “confirms that the design we’re working on is very likely to…
The coronavirus has now killed more than 1 million people and upended the global economy in less than nine months
The coronavirus pandemic has reach its most grisly milestone to date: 1 million people are dead.…
A Student Just Proved Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Possible
Now we can all go back to 2019. Read more…
There’s No Speed Limit in a Superfluid Universe. Now We Know Why
Superfluids are much like superconductors. In the cold, dense medium of a helium-3 superfluid, scientists recently…
D614G mutation now the dominant variant in the global COVID-19 pandemic
Now, a new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in September 2020 shows that a…
Rising Temperatures Are Pushing Antarctica Past Point of No Return, Scientists Warn
Raising Earth’s average surface temperature another degree Celsius will lock in 2.5 metres of sea level…
Trojan horse nanoparticle takes a drug-free approach to killing cancer
With cancer so often presenting as a cunning enemy, scientists are working hard to develop therapies…
Simple blood test predicts patients most likely to die from COVID-19
One of the big challenges healthcare workers are facing in this global pandemic is identifying those…
Astronomers discover “pi Earth” planet that orbits every 3.14 days
Probably it should be called the Pi Planet. Read more at Futurism…
At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
The 61st international mathematical olympiad, or imo, begins today. Due to the covid-19 pandemic it’s the…
Two new medicines to treat advanced prostate cancer hailed as a ‘breakthrough’ – what it means
The drugs, olaparib and ipatasertib, could potentially become the first ever precision medicines for prostate cancer…
Interventions Meant To Slow The Spread Of Covid-19 Have All But Stopped The Spread Of Flu
Thanks to masks, social distancing and other measures adopted since March, far fewer people in the…
World’s Richest One Percent Are Producing More Than Double the Carbon Emissions as the Bottom 50 Percent
Climate fires explicitly links record-breaking blazes that have burned across california, oregon and washington to global…