Here’s How Scientists Turned Plastic Bottles Into Nutritious Cookies
Topline Researchers at Southern Illinois University have engineered microbes that can break down discarded plastic bottles and crop…
French Sunday and the Italian month off | France
As I write this, I’m enjoying my French Sunday (Polly Hudson, 23 August) with a croissant from the…
Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the sun | MIT News
Magnetic fields are generated by matter that is electrically charged and moving around. In the very early solar…
EuroHPC Opens €119M in Funding Calls for Quantum Technologies
Insider Brief The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has launched six calls totaling €119 million to advance quantum computing, quantum…
Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue completely different species, swimming underneath a doomed seal and lifting it out of the water on their chest, or forming a wall between the killers and a grey whale calf, and scientists still can’t fully explain why they bother to save animals they have nothing to gain from
It’s not a story anyone would have believed if it weren’t so thoroughly documented. A pod of killer…
Hidden Stars Reveal the True Size of Ancient Galaxies in the Distant Universe, and It Isn’t What We Expected
The Webb space telescope has helped astronomers peer into the distant cosmos, revealing a population of galaxies that…
The ocean just broke a temperature record that may have stood for millennia
As a record-breaking El Niño builds in the Pacific and large swaths of the globe’s oceans are affected…
Partial lunar eclipse to bring an almost ‘blood moon’ to Lower 48 states
Partial lunar eclipse to bring an almost ‘blood moon’ to the Lower 48 LANCASTER, Pa. — Sky watchers…
Electrical manipulation and detection of perpendicular altermagnetic order via a proximitized Dirac semimetal
Miron, I. M. et al. Perpendicular switching of a single ferromagnetic layer induced by in-plane current injection. Nature…
Bear walks into Colorado Springs Fire Department station, steals gear bag
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Colorado Springs Fire Department and Colorado Parks and Wildlife are reminding the public…
Lunar eclipse 2026: Will weather block it in the U.S.?
Aug. 27-28 lunar eclipse: almost a blood moon over the US A partial lunar eclipse will be visible…
Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs
Cattle are a central part of the identity of Andrew Msami’s Maasai community in northeast Tanzania. Herd size…