Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-07-013How a 17-Million-Year-Old Egyptian Ape Reshapes Ape OriginsA lower jaw found in Wadi Moghra reveals Masripithecus moghraensis, a 17–18 million-year-old ape from North Africa whose anatomy and placement challenge ideas about where modern apes originated and dispersed.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-06-292Electrochemical Bath Restores 95% of Lithium Battery CapacityCornell researchers developed an electrochemical bath that restores up to 95% of lithium-ion battery capacity by dissolving excess SEI layers on intact electrodes, cutting recycling costs and environmental impact.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-06-273Sunlight Upconverted into UV: A Solid-State BreakthroughKyushu University researchers engineered a solid organic material that converts visible sunlight into UV via triplet-triplet annihilation, achieving 1.9% upconversion under natural sunlight and opening paths for solar-driven UV applications.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-06-273How a Stretchable AI Patch Lets Skin Act Like a DoctorResearchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne built a stretchable, skin-like AI patch that runs neuromorphic computing on the body, enabling millisecond cardiac mapping and accurate health-risk prediction.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-06-272How Shannon Entropy Cracked 99% of Wordle Games WorldwideResearchers at Binghamton University applied Shannon entropy to Wordle, creating an entropy-first strategy that solved 99% of puzzles in simulations by selecting guesses that maximize expected information gain.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-06-162Finland's Sand Battery: 85% Efficiency and Big SavingsFinland's demonstration sand battery stored renewable heat with over 85% efficiency in its first year, cutting local heating emissions by about 70% and eliminating oil use—showing a practical path for decarbonising district heating.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-06-102Molecular Water Armor: Fabrics That Clean with WaterScientists developed an ultrathin polymer coating that organizes water into a 'molecular armor' on fabrics, allowing common stains to wash away with plain water and cutting laundry water and energy by over 82 percent.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-06-082Single DNA Letter Rewires Sex in Mice: Regulatory SwitchA tiny change — a single DNA base in a non-coding enhancer called Enh13 — can flip sexual development in mice by unleashing Sox9. The study highlights regulatory DNA's role in sex determination and implications for DSD diagnostics.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-06-072Yale's Artificial Leaf Turns Airborne CO2 into MethanolYale scientists built an artificial leaf that uses only sunlight, water, and air to convert CO2 into methanol. The system uses a six-electron catalyst and a silicon photoelectrode to achieve record efficiency for solar-driven methanol production.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-06-022210-Million-Year-Old Croc Relative Discovered in New MexicoA new crocodile relative, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, has been identified from a 210-million-year-old Ghost Ranch fossil. CT scans reveal a short-snouted predator that coexisted with Hesperosuchus, shedding light on early croc diversification.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-06-013Stanford's New iISM Microscope Reveals Living CellsStanford researchers combined interferometric scattering and image-scanning techniques to create iISM, a label-free microscope that images living cells at ~120 nm resolution with lower illumination, enabling longer, gentler live-cell observation.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-06-012Programmable Living Plastics That Self-Destruct in Six DaysScientists embedded engineered Bacillus subtilis and two enzymes into polycaprolactone to create living plastics that, when activated, fully degrade within six days without producing microplastics.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-05-182How Scientists Finally Cracked the Sun’s Heat PuzzleScientists have directly detected twisting Alfvén waves in the Sun’s corona, a major breakthrough that could explain why the outer solar atmosphere is far hotter than the Sun’s surface.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-05-132AI Helps Scientists Build a 19 Amino Acid Life FormScientists used AI to engineer the first known 19 amino acid organism, rewriting E. coli without isoleucine and opening new paths in synthetic biology, evolution research, and bioengineering.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-05-112Why Your Weirdest Dreams Feel So Strangely PersonalA new neuroscience study suggests dreams are not random at all. They are shaped by daily life, personality, stress, and even mind wandering, making your strangest dreams more personal than they seem.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-04-172Scientists Trap Infrared Light in a 42-Nm LatticeResearchers in Poland trapped infrared light in a 42-nanometer MoSe2 lattice, a breakthrough that could advance photonics, ultracompact lasers, and optical computing.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-04-133Scientists Find Liquids Can Snap Like SolidsScientists have discovered that simple liquids can fracture like solids under enough stress, revealing a surprising new behavior with implications for fluid mechanics and technologies such as 3D printing and soft robotics.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-04-133Too Much Vitamin D Can Turn Risky, Scientists WarnVitamin D is essential, but too much can cause hypercalcemia, kidney stones, and serious toxicity. Scientists urge careful dosing and medical guidance.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-04-132Why Extreme Heat Is Becoming Deadlier Than ExpectedA new study suggests lethal heat arrives sooner than wet bulb temperature thresholds predicted, revealing how extreme heatwaves can overwhelm the human body.
Read MoreEmma Collins2026-04-072How Car Battery Acid Became a Clean Fuel AssetResearchers at Cambridge have found a way to use spent car battery acid to break down plastic waste and produce clean hydrogen fuel in a solar-powered reactor that ran for 264 hours.
