Technology
A wastewater fix that also makes hydrogen: the new patent out of Chandigarh
Panjab University has been granted a patent for a nanocomposite technology that simultaneously treats wastewater and…
Tag: Science
World
The Hillsborough meteorite: how one homeowner’s gloves preserved a piece of the early solar system
Careful handling by a New Jersey homeowner helped preserve a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite that crashed through a…
World
Scientists found the fingerprint microbes left in rocks 2.4 billion years ago
A distinctive sulfur isotope signature that vanishes from 2.4-billion-year-old rocks is one of the clearest pieces…
World
Scientists Tracked 6,000 Penguin Dives to Solve a Surprising Food Mystery
A study of Adélie and chinstrap penguins finds that Antarctic prey becomes harder to reach through…
Health
A 17-year-old’s science project could change how autism gets diagnosed
Edward Kang, a 17-year-old student from New Jersey, built an AI tool called RetinaMind that screens…
Society
He changed modern medicine forever, so why did he never win a Nobel Prize?
Yellapragada Subbarow helped develop folic acid supplementation, the first childhood leukaemia treatment, the first tetracycline antibiotic,…
Technology
A Physicist Built a ‘Big Bang’ and ‘Big Crunch’ Inside a Lab to Study Where Time Comes From
Using a cloud of ultracold atoms, a University of Birmingham physicist recreated 'Big Bang' and 'Big…
World
How a Shark That Lives 400 Years Keeps Its Eyesight Sharp — And What It Means for Humans
Greenland sharks, once assumed blind, appear to retain undamaged retinas for centuries, a finding researchers hope…
World
What are offshore breakwaters, and can they really save Britain’s beaches?
Researchers explain how offshore breakwaters work and why their effectiveness against coastal erosion depends heavily on…