Q&A: Tiny spores for a big critical minerals challenge

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are exploring how durable, customizable bacterial spores could capture rare earth ...

Tree vaccines and gene-edited butterflies among biotechnology projects funded by UK ‘invention agency’

Exclusive: Research and invention agency hopes to harness ‘powers of biotechnology’ for purpose of conservation ...

Project Butterfly tracks monarchs on 3,000-mile journey

It’s the type of journey normally reserved for birds or whales, but it’s being done by butterflies. Monarch butterflies found ...

[Spoiler Analysis] The movie 'Project Hail Mary' is not a 'story of a hero who saves the Earth.' It was a story of a cowardly man who, for the first time, saves someone by hi…

This article contains major spoilers for the movie 'Project Hail Mary,' especially regarding Grace's past, Rocky's true ...

A New Helium Measurement Is Testing the Universe’s First Five Minutes

Credit: NASA Large Binocular Telescope data cut helium measurement uncertainty threefold. Helium, a light chemical element, carries clues to what the universe was like during its first five minutes.
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A life of learning: One graduate’s journey from small Michigan town to MIT

Long before the acceptance letter, this teenager spent countless hours exploring books at the library, trips to museums, ...

Flash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that

Fortunately, new tools are being developed to counter this threat. A new software called the Transient Artifact and Continuous Learning System (TACLS) uses satellites and machine learning to try to ...

Deep Fission releases safety design agreement for Kansas nuclear pilot project

The company building a nuclear reactor one mile underground in Parsons made its federally approved safety report available to the public Monday. The U.S. Department of Energy approved Deep ...

Meet Myreen Ahsan, the Friendswood 8th-grader who screened over 10 million drug-like molecules with AI for a frontotemporal dementia project

An eighth-grade student from Texas has used artificial intelligence and computer models to screen more than 10 million ...
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A $100 detector can see invisible particles raining down from space

A pocket-sized, roughly $100 detector can reveal the invisible stream of cosmic particles constantly passing through Earth ...
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NSF announces 3 additional topics as part of the NSF X-Labs initiative to pursue generational breakthrough science and technology efforts

The latest NSF X-Labs funding opportunity invites proposals in the technical domain of Artificial Intelligence for Physical Systems. NSF is also previewing two additional NSF X-Labs topics for which ...
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In-orbit test advances deployable phased-array transceiver for small satellites

A satellite phased-array transceiver that folds up for launch and unfolds in space has been shown to work successfully in orbit, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. By using an innovative ...