Perovskite breakthrough brings self-charging screens closer to reality
A display that quietly gathers energy from room light sounds a bit like science fiction, but the underlying…
Virginia Tech researcher wins NIH award to study metabolic brain health
Mary Elizabeth Baugh, a research scientist with Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has been awarded…
Astronomers map the climate of Earth-like exoplanets for the first time
A pair of scorched worlds circling the red dwarf TRAPPIST-1 now offer one of the clearest looks yet…
Child health experts launch GenHEART to tackle Australia’s obesity crisis
Heart health, diet, exercise and sleep will be targeted under a multi-pronged strategy by child health experts to…
NASA’s first nuclear-powered spacecraft is heading to Mars, and its bringing helicopters
For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper,…
New tool tracks lost continents and moving plates over the last 320 million years
Latitude shapes climate in a basic but powerful way. It controls the angle of sunlight, which helps decide…
Friendly AI Chatbots may be more Prone to Inaccuracies
New research suggests that AI chatbots designed to sound warm and friendly when interacting with users may also…
Dense rainforest canopy an acoustic ‘information highway’ for predator warnings
Key takeaways This study found that the dense upper canopy of the Amazon rainforest works like a vast…
Israeli Study Suggests Oral Health Begins in the Womb – J-Wire
New Israeli research suggests mothers may shape their children’s oral health long before the first tooth appears, potentially…
3 Medical Routines That Older People May Not Need
Enough time had passed since the patient’s previous colonoscopy that she met the criteria to undergo another, said…
Penn engineers use AI to solve some of science’s most difficult math problems
A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard…
Evolution has used the same genetic ‘cheat sheet’ for over 120 million years
A yellow band across a wing might look like a simple flourish. In the South American rainforest, it…