Tracing Leonardo da Vinci’s Genetic Legacy: Living Male Descendants and the Race to Reconstruct His DNA
A genealogical bridge to Leonardo’s genomeFor over five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci has been studied as an unparalleled...
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World’s Oldest Microbial DNA Recovered from Million-Year-Old Mammoth Remains
Ancient microbes preserved in mammoth remainsAn international team led by the Centre for Palaeogenetics has retrieved mi...
Gribshunden Wreck Reveals Europe’s Earliest Naval Artillery and a Lost Chapter of Age of Exploration
A royal wreck with global significanceArchaeologists from Lund University have reopened a window into late 15th-century ...
From a Jerash Tooth to Venice: Tracing the Origins and Persistence of Plague
Recent paleogenomic work that analyzed a tooth from Jerash has clarified the early geographic and evolutionary history o...
Brain Signals Predict When You'll Change Your Mind — and Why It Matters
How the Monty Hall Puzzle Illuminates Human Decision-MakingThe Monty Hall problem — choose one of three doors, the host ...
Researchers Identify Cause of Eerie White Halos on Southern California Seafloor: Alkaline Waste, Not Just DDT
Alkaline leaks explain ‘ghostly’ white halos around sunken barrelsImages of corroded metal drums resting on the deep sea...
Scientists Build the First Time Crystal Visible to the Human Eye — Neon Stripes from Liquid Crystals
A Time Crystal You Can SeePhysicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have announced a landmark demonstration: a ti...
Modular Quantum Computers: Superconducting Qubits That Snap Together Like LEGO
Modularity meets quantum engineeringEngineers at the Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Cham...
Silicon Photonic Chip Uses Light to Make AI Inference 100× More Energy Efficient
Light-driven computing tackles AI’s energy crisisArtificial intelligence is fueling a rapid expansion of compute demand ...
Do Humans and Chimpanzees Really Share Nearly 99% of Their DNA? The Genomic Reality
the 99% claim and what it really meansIt's commonly repeated in textbooks and popular media that humans and chimpanzees ...
World First: Scientists Create a Time Crystal Visible to the Naked Eye
Visible Time Crystals: A New Quantum Material You Can SeeResearchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have reported...
9,200-Year-Old Finds in Uzbekistan Suggest Wider Roots for Early Farming
New evidence from Toda CaveArchaeological excavations in southern Uzbekistan have produced plant and tool evidence indic...
PET Waste Converted into BAETA: Upcycled Plastic Becomes a Scalable CO2 Capture Material
From Plastic Pollution to Carbon CaptureChemists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a chemical upcycling pro...
Molecular Dipoles, Not Pressure: New Research Rewrites Why Ice Is Slippery
For nearly two centuries, textbooks have explained ice’s slipperiness as a result of melting caused by pressure or frict...
Blood Vessels in a T. rex Rib Reveal New Clues About Dinosaur Biology
Dinosaur DNA remains beyond current reach, so paleontologists are turning to rarer traces of soft tissue preserved withi...
Wearable Smart Eye Sensor Detects Dangerous Fatigue in Real Time
Compact, noninvasive sensors bring proactive fatigue detection to daily lifeFatigue undermines safety, performance, and ...
Single Fecal Transplant Linked to Lower Long-Term Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Disease
The composition of the gut microbiome increasingly appears to shape metabolic health and obesity risk. New follow-up res...
Hollow‑Core Optical Fibers Promise Wider Bandwidth and Lower Loss for Global Telecoms
New fiber design that redirects light through airResearchers have engineered a new class of optical fiber that replaces ...
Red Onions Could Make Solar Sensors More Biodegradable: Nanocellulose UV Filters Beat PET
Biodegradable UV filters: a new approach to greener solar technologySolar photovoltaic devices are central to global dec...
Engineered E. coli Produce PDCA: A Strong, Biodegradable Alternative to PET
Breakthrough: Microbial production of a PET alternativeA team of bioengineers at Kobe University has reported a major ad...