What if sunlight could help turn ordinary water into a cleaner fuel, using a material that does not need an additional expensive metal catalyst? Scientists have developed a new light-powered material that could offer a different route to producing hydrogen, one of the fuels attracting attention in the transition to …
When astronauts look at the Moon from space, they notice things that a photograph alone might miss. Subtle colour differences, shadows inside craters and brief flashes of light can all offer clues about the Moon’s surface and its history. Now, NASA has released more than 800 gigabytes of scientific data …
Concrete is one of the most widely used materials on Earth, but it has one major weakness: it cracks. Tiny cracks can allow water, salts, and other chemicals to penetrate deep into the material, eventually corroding the steel reinforcement and weakening structures. Repairing this damage is expensive, difficult, and often …
Coconut shells are usually treated as agricultural waste. But after a little chemical transformation, they could become part of something we drive on every day: asphalt. Researchers have found that turning coconut shells into biochar and adding it to asphalt can make the material stiffer, stronger and more resistant to …
Stockholm, October 5, 2026 Scientists won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing optogenetics, a gene-therapy based technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain. The Nobel Assembly cited their “discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.” The three share the 12 million …
CRISPR is often described as one of nature’s most precise genetic tools. But scientists have now discovered an ancient RNA-guided system that appears to have been using a very different way of finding DNA long before modern CRISPR systems evolved. Researchers from the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley, led …
Eggshells usually have a short journey: breakfast, bin, done. But their calcium-rich structure could give them a second life inside something much less familiar, which are metal alloys. Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a way to use powdered eggshells to make stronger and harder magnesium alloys, replacing …
The Universe is expanding. But one of cosmology’s biggest unanswered questions is whether that expansion is being driven by a constant form of dark energy, something that changes with time, or perhaps by physics that scientists do not yet fully understand. Now, astronomers are turning to one of the oldest …
Rust may look like a simple surface problem, but corrosion is one of the most persistent threats to modern infrastructure. Bridges, pipelines, ships, buildings and industrial equipment all depend on protective coatings that keep water, oxygen and corrosive chemicals away from metal. The problem is that these coatings eventually develop …
Replacing a damaged organ is already difficult. Replacing a gland that controls several other organs through hormones is an entirely different challenge. Now, scientists in Japan have taken an important step toward doing exactly that. They grew pituitary tissue from human stem cells, transplanted it into a macaque monkey whose …
What happens when plastic waste that is difficult to recycle is given a job that requires it to withstand tonnes of pressure? In Australia, some of it ends up underneath railway tracks. Researchers and engineers have spent years developing railway sleepers made largely from recycled plastic waste. The Australian-made product, …
Nearly two kilometres beneath the North Atlantic, there is no sunlight, no crashing waves and no obvious sign that the water is moving rapidly upward. But in 2021, scientists found a way to make this hidden movement visible. They released fluorescent dye into a deep underwater canyon and followed its …
Your smartwatch already knows how much you have moved today. But what if it could look at your recent activity and tell you that you are about to spend too long sitting? Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed an artificial-intelligence system that can forecast …
Some of the most useful chemical reactions work beautifully in a laboratory flask but become difficult when you move them into the watery environment of biology. Olefin metathesis is one of them. The reaction is a way of rearranging carbon–carbon double bonds to build new carbon–carbon bonds. In simple terms, …
Artificial intelligence can now do much more than answer questions. Some AI systems can analyse biological data, predict protein structures, help design molecules and even work with genetic information. Those same abilities raise an uncomfortable question: could AI also make biological weapons easier to create? There is already evidence that …
What if a diagnostic test could detect the molecular fingerprints of disease before the body produced noticeable symptoms? That possibility is driving research into quantum sensors devices that exploit quantum properties of matter to measure extremely weak biological signals. Unlike conventional sensors, quantum sensors can detect tiny changes in magnetic …
A new study is offering an unexpected insight into what happens to a human heart after transplantation: the heart may gradually adjust its biological age to match the person receiving it. Researchers found that young hearts transplanted into older bodies showed signs of faster biological aging, while older hearts placed …
At a fertilizer plant in the Netherlands, carbon dioxide is being captured, chilled into a liquid and loaded onto specially designed ships. The ships then carry it to Norway, where the CO₂ is sent more than 8,500 feet beneath the seabed for permanent storage. It is one of Europe’s first …
DNA databases contain an enormous amount of information, but finding something genuinely unusual among millions of sequences can be like looking for a pattern hidden in a mountain of text. Researchers at Anthropic have now used Claude AI agents to do exactly that. And the search uncovered a previously uncharacterized …
Quantum computers are often hyped as the “next big leap” in computing, but they have a fragility problem that traditional computers never had to deal with. A team at Bengaluru’s Raman Research Institute (RRI) has just demonstrated a clever trick to help fix it, and the core idea comes down …
What if a medical device could be swallowed, work inside the body for a few days and then leave behind almost nothing? Scientists have developed a paper-based battery designed to do exactly that. The battery can power small medical devices inside the gastrointestinal tract and is made from materials that …
What if something normally scraped off a fish and thrown away could become a plastic film, and then disappear back into the soil after its job was done? Researchers have developed a plastic-like material called Cyclo.Plas 2 using components recovered from discarded fish scales. The resulting material can be made …
For people who depend on insulin, keeping blood glucose within a healthy range means constantly matching insulin doses to changing glucose levels. Researchers are now working on a different approach: a tiny patch that can sense glucose and release insulin when levels rise. The idea uses microneedles, extremely small projections …
What if you could destroy a tumour without cutting into the body, burning it or using ionising radiation? A technology called histotripsy is making that possibility real for certain liver tumours. The treatment uses precisely focused ultrasound pulses to mechanically destroy targeted tissue. In the United States, the FDA has …
Plastic bottles and other single-use plastics usually have a short life. They may be used for minutes, but the material itself can remain in the environment for decades or longer. Researchers at MIT have been working on a very different destination for that waste: the structure of a building. Their …
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