Read More Scince News Nature Scientific 6 months ago 18th-Century Mechanical Vesuvius Rebuilt After 250 Years An 18th-century mechanical model of Mount Vesuvius, first sketched by Sir William Hamilton in 1775, has been recreated by University of Melbourne engineering students using modern materials, LEDs and microcontrollers. The working model is now exhibited until June 28, 2026.
Read More Scince News General info Scientific 6 months ago Fuel-Free Microwave Plasma Engine Could Revolutionize Flight Chinese engineers have developed a microwave-driven plasma engine that uses compressed air and microwaves to create thrust without fossil fuels. Early tests levitated a 900 g steel ball; scaling up could reshape aviation emissions.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago Arizona's Giant Solar Park: Power for 70,000 Homes Arizona approved the 2,000-hectare Pinyon Solar Project, combining PV panels and a 24-hectare battery system to power ~70,000 homes, boost grid resilience, create jobs, and generate over $100M in tax revenue.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago Why Pumpkins Soak Up Pollution: The Protein Signal Japanese researchers discovered a tiny protein change that explains why pumpkins and other gourds concentrate soil pollutants. The finding could help breed safer crops or develop plants to clean contaminated soils.
Read More Scince News General info Scientific 6 months ago Why Smarter AI May Be More Selfish — New Study Warns Carnegie Mellon researchers find that LLMs with explicit reasoning often act more selfishly, reducing cooperation in social-dilemma games. The study warns that smarter AI could undermine collective outcomes.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago Germanium Turns Superconductor: A Foundry-Ready Breakthrough Researchers used molecular beam epitaxy to embed gallium into germanium’s crystal lattice, creating a wafer-scale superconducting germanium (super-Ge) that conducts electricity with zero resistance at 3.5 K.
Read More Scince News Nature Scientific 6 months ago MXenes Could Unlock Cleaner Ammonia and Renewables Now MXenes—tunable two-dimensional carbides and nitrides—show promise as electrocatalysts for cleaner ammonia production. Combining computation and Raman spectroscopy, researchers map atomic mechanisms that could decarbonize fertilizer and fuel.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago Optical Chip Breaks 10 GHz Barrier for Real-Time AI Tsinghua researchers present OFE2, an integrated optical chip that performs feature extraction at 12.5 GHz with sub-250 ps latency, enabling low-energy, real-time AI for imaging, healthcare, and high-frequency trading.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago Shiitake Memristors: Fungi That Remember and Compute Scientists demonstrated that dried shiitake mycelium can act as memristors — memory-resistive elements — offering a promising route to low-cost, biodegradable, neuromorphic hardware built from fungi.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago How a 'Childlike Face' Can Unlock Lost Childhood Memories New research shows that embodying a childlike version of your own face can help adults retrieve richer childhood memories. The study links bodily self-perception to autobiographical memory and suggests new research and therapeutic directions.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago How Ultra-High Heat Forged Earth's Stable Continents New research shows Earth's continents were forged by ultrahigh temperatures that drove uranium and thorium upward, cooling and strengthening the lower crust. Results impact resource exploration and planetary habitability studies.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago DNA Reveals What Killed Napoleon’s Soldiers in 1812 Ancient DNA from teeth in Vilnius mass graves reveals paratyphoid and louse-borne relapsing fever—not typhus alone—helped decimate Napoleon’s 1812 army. Metagenomics reshapes the medical story of the retreat.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over Live Internet Fiber Researchers teleported a quantum state of light through over 30 km of live fiber carrying 400 Gbps of internet traffic — a practical step toward a quantum internet that can share existing fiber infrastructure.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago Ionocaloric Cooling: A Greener Way to Make Cold, Explained Ionocaloric cooling uses ion movement to trigger phase changes and absorb heat, offering an efficient, low-GWP alternative to HFC refrigerants. Labs report large temperature shifts with small voltages and ongoing work aims to scale the technology.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago Tiny Chip Laser Could Transform Lidar and Gas Detection A new chip-scale laser developed by NTNU, EPFL and industry partners delivers tunable, stable, and cost-effective light sources for Lidar and gas sensing, promising compact, mass-producible photonics.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago How an Ancient Fossil Rewrote Freshwater Fish Hearing A 67-million-year-old fossil reveals that sensitive hearing in freshwater fish evolved after multiple migrations from the sea. CT scans, genomic data and vibration models revise otophysan origins and biodiversity drivers.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago How a Solar-Powered Retinal Chip Is Restoring Sight A photovoltaic retinal implant is giving people with dry age-related macular degeneration partial central vision back. Learn how the PRIMA System works, patient stories, and clinical implications.
Read More Scince News Scientific 6 months ago What Keeps Spaghetti Intact? The Science of Gluten Lund University researchers used neutron scattering and X-rays to show that gluten stabilizes spaghetti during cooking and that salt in the water affects microstructure — findings that guide better gluten-free pasta design.
Read More Scince News Scientific 7 months ago Poisoned AI: Hidden Data Attacks Threaten Global Trust Small injections of malicious data can secretly corrupt large language models, creating backdoors, spreading misinformation, and raising new cybersecurity risks. Learn how poisoning works and what can be done.
Read More Scince News Nature Scientific 7 months ago Glowing Sugars Reveal How Ocean Microbes Store Carbon A novel fluorescent glycan probe lights up when marine sugars are digested, revealing which microbes consume complex polysaccharides and how that controls carbon storage and export in the ocean.
