A new device can clean polluted air and turn it into hydrogen energy

A team of Belgian researchers has developed a device that will remove pollutants from the air and convert them into simple hydrogen — using sunlight, nanoparticles and a photoelectric chemical membrane. This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview: The project was conceived and developed...
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Scientists Have Created The Largest Ever Virtual Universe Inside a Supercomputer

As well as studying what we can observe today, scientists rely on simulations to understand more about the past and future of the Universe – and we have a new record for the largest Universe simulation ever computed. A giant supercomputer has been used to model some 25 billion virtual...
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Worm Grows 2 Heads in Space, Surprising Scientists

The regenerative power of flatworms — which can regrow into complete individuals after they’ve been cut into pieces — is well-known among scientists. But a group of flatworms that recently visited the International Space Station (ISS) had a few surprises to share when they returned to Earth. Scientists sent the...
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Jupiter Has Been Declared The Most Ancient Planet in The Solar System

Jupiter formed in a geologic blink. Its rocky core coalesced less than a million years after the beginning of our solar system, scientists reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Within another 2 million or 3 million years, that core grew to 50 times the mass of Earth....
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Sun Likely Has a Long-Lost Twin

Nemesis is apparently real, even if its bad reputation is undeserved. For decades, some scientists have speculated that the sun has a companion whose gravitational tug periodically jostles comets out of their normal orbits, sending them careening toward Earth. The resulting impacts have caused mass extinctions, the thinking goes, which...
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The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions

Neuroscientists have used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains. What they’ve discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dimensions. We’re used to thinking of the world from a...
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Computers are starting to reason like humans

How many parks are near the new home you’re thinking of buying? What’s the best dinner-wine pairing at a restaurant? These everyday questions require relational reasoning, an important component of higher thought that has been difficult for artificial intelligence (AI) to master. Now, researchers at Google’s DeepMind have developed a...
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Alien megastructures – where we should look next

You remember the alien megastructure. No? Let me refresh your memory. Back in October 2015, the internet nearly broke when astronomers announced they had detected a strange signal that stood a remote chance of being a vast extraterrestrial construction – dubbed the alien megastructure. It was discovered using Nasa’s Kepler...
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New antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteria

Scientists from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the biotechnology company NAICONS Srl., and elsewhere have discovered a new antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteria: pseudouridimycin. The new antibiotic is produced by a microbe found in a soil sample collected in Italy and was discovered by screening microbes from soil samples. The new antibiotic...
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In a World-First, Scientists Have Achieved ‘Liquid Light’ at Room Temperature

For the first time, physicists have achieved ‘liquid light’ at room temperature, making this strange form of matter more accessible than ever. This matter is both a superfluid, which has zero friction and viscosity, and a kind of Bose-Einstein condensate – sometimes described as the fifth state of matter – and it allows light to...
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Broccoli Could Be a Secret Weapon Against Diabetes, Say ScientistsAnother reason to eat your greens.

Before reading the article please take a moment to take our survey Loading… Broccoli contains an ingredient that can help those with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar level, according to a new study – potentially providing a much-needed treatment option for millions. A chemical in cruciferous vegetables like...
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This Machine Could Print Synthetic Life Forms on Demand, And Our Minds Are Reeling

Back in 2016, biologist Craig Venter achieved something extraordinary. He built a new species of bacteria from scratch in the lab – the simplest genetic life form known to science, made entirely through chemical synthesis of a custom-made genome. Now, he’s unveiled a new machine that could print these synthetic...
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Doctors Just Separated Twin Girls Joined at The Head in One of The World’s Rarest Surgeries

For the first time, conjoined twins Abby and Erin Delaney can sleep in separate beds. The 10-month-old girls from North Carolina were born connected at the head, an extremely rare condition. Following months of planning and preparation, the pair underwent a successful 11-hour separation surgery last week at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in southeastern Pennsylvania,...
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DNA Replication Has Been Filmed For The First Time, And It’s Not What We Expected

“It undermines a great deal of what’s in the textbooks.”  Here’s proof of how far we’ve come in science – in a world-first, researchers have recorded up-close footage of a single DNA molecule replicating itself, and it’s raising questions about how we assumed the process played out.The real-time footage has...
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Kepler telescope catalogs hundreds of new alien worlds, some potentially habitable

The galaxy is full of worlds like ours. That’s the lesson from Kepler, NASA’s prodigious exoplanet-hunting mission, which has found another 219 potential new exoplanets, bringing its total to 4034, according to a final analysis of its main 4-year search and published in a final catalog released today. Of the new...
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How Big Do You Think This Spacecraft Is? Guess Again…

Most images of spacecraft are set in space, so it can be hard to guess their size. We did some digging and the answers might surprise you.
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Bacteria in Your Coughs And Sneezes Can Stay Alive in The Air For Up to 45 Minutes

Cover your damn face. Researchers have developed a new technique to study how a common disease causing bacterium can spread and remain in the environment after coughing or sneezing – and the results are not pretty. The team has found that a subset of pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterial species associated...
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The Most Astounding Fact – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.
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