This Planet Has Diamond Rain And Scientists Are Baffled
Astronomers have discovered something 2,000 light years from Earth that has left them completely confused and wondering if it’s an entirely new type of space object. The planet, called PSR J2322-2650b, is shaped like a lemon with a pointy tip just like the fruit you’d find in your kitchen. Scientists believe the intense gravity from […]
NASA’s Christmas Project Comparing Vast And Small
A microscopic Christmas tree is the seasonal highlight of a remarkable science project called New Perspectives that found scary comparisons between the vast universe and the tiny microscopic world we cannot see with the naked. The project takes space based images from Chandra which is one of NASA’s Great Observatories alongside Hubble and James Webb […]
How 5,000 Red Solo Cups Became Sweaters
Lauren Choi looked at thousands of red Solo cups littering her Johns Hopkins campus and saw something nobody else did, building a machine during her senior year that could transform those notorious party cups into comfortable textile filaments for clothing production. The engineering student partnered with campus fraternities to collect thousands of red cups as […]
The 15 Minute City Concept
Concordia University researchers in Montreal have proven that neighborhoods can become completely self sufficient in vegetable production while slashing carbon emissions by 98 percent by dedicating just 13.8 percent of rooftops, 10 percent of building walls, and 15 percent of unused lots for growing fresh food locally. The groundbreaking study published in the journal Sustainability […]
Scientists Made Real Leather Without Harming Any Animals
A North Carolina biotech company called Cultivated Biomaterials has successfully produced lab grown cow leather from the cells of Angel, a Black Angus cow living at Sweet Farm animal sanctuary in upstate New York, marking the first time consumers can purchase leather products from an animal that’s still alive and thriving. Biomedical engineer George Engelmayr […]
This Plant Turns Seawater Into Fuel For 28 Cents
A new seawater desalination plant in the coastal Chinese city of Rizhao has achieved what many considered impossible, producing green hydrogen fuel, with fresh water costing just 28 cents per cubic meter compared to Saudi Arabia’s 56 cents and California’s $2.20. For every 800 metric tons of seawater processed, the system delivers 118,877 gallons of […]
The Key To Crops That Fertilize Themselves
Danish researchers at Aarhus University have discovered a molecular switch that allows plants to partner with nitrogen-fixing bacteria instead of treating them as enemies, opening the door to self-fertilizing cereal crops like wheat and barley that could revolutionize global agriculture. Professors Kasper Røjkjær Andersen and Simona Radutoiu led the team that identified just two amino […]
This Could Become The Newest National Park
Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in central Georgia with 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may soon become the newest U.S. national park under a pending bill in Congress, though the redesignation may not include much change for the site itself beyond marketing and public perception. The 3,000 acre park protects land and features important to the […]
Prehistoric Discovery Proves Manatees Are Ocean Heroes
Nicholas Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the National Museum of Natural History, co-authored groundbreaking research that reveals a treasure trove of fossils uncovered in southwestern Qatar, proving that anateesm have been protecting ocean ecosystems for tens of millions of years. The team discovered a distant relative of modern dugongs in rocks less than […]
What 16,600 Footprints Reveal About Dinosaur Secrets
In Bolivia’s Torotoro National Park, paleontologists have documented an astonishing 16,600 dinosaur footprints at Carreras Pampas, making it the largest concentration of prehistoric tracks ever recorded in a single location. The remarkable site preserves dozens of trackways created by theropods, the bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs that included the famous Tyrannosaurus rex, as they traveled across what […]