Technology
Maggot Reactor Turns Rural Food Waste Into Protein
In a cluttered research lab in eastern China, a new kind of garbage disposal sits humming quietly.
Sep 29, 2025
Health
Lung-on-a-Chip Defends Itself for the First Time
Scientists watched immune cells rush through microscopic vessels inside a polymer chip no bigger than a postage stamp, and for the first time, the miniature lung fought back against infection on its own.
Sep 29, 2025
Health
Zapping Knee Pain: Radiation Therapy Gets New Job
Doctors are aiming radiation beams at arthritic knees, and the results suggest this unorthodox approach might spare some patients from pills or surgery.
Sep 29, 2025
Earth & Environment
Europe's Hail Problem Gets Bigger, Not Better
The future of European hailstorms looks less frequent but far more destructive, according to new climate modeling that challenges earlier predictions about how global warming will reshape one of nature's costliest local hazards.
Sep 29, 2025
Health
Gen X Women Battle Addiction to Processed Foods
One in five women in their 50s and early 60s meets clinical criteria for addiction to ultra-processed foods, a rate that dwarfs addiction levels for alcohol and tobacco in the same age group, according to new research from the University of Michigan.
Sep 29, 2025
Health
Brain's Fortress Holds Strong Against Alzheimer's
The brain's protective shield may be tougher than scientists thought. In findings that upend decades of assumptions about Alzheimer's disease, researchers at…
Sep 29, 2025
Health
How Bacteria Trick Themselves Into Suicide by Antibiotic
Nobody expected the bacteria to commit suicide. But that is essentially what happens when polymyxin antibiotics attack, according to stunning new microscopy images that reveal how these last-resort drugs actually work after 80 years of clinical mystery.
Sep 29, 2025
Health
Simple Blood Test Predicts Liver Disease Risk
Your next routine checkup could reveal whether you are headed toward cirrhosis or liver cancer, and the warning might come from three blood measurements your doctor already takes.
Sep 29, 2025
Technology
Biochar's Hidden Superpower: Direct Pollutant Destruction
For decades, researchers believed biochar cleaned contaminated water like a simple sponge, passively absorbing pollutants from wastewater.
Sep 26, 2025
Technology
Quantum Entanglement Slashes Learning Time From Millions of Years to Minutes
In a basement laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark, researchers have achieved something that sounds like science fiction: they've reduced a learning task that would take classical systems 20 million years to complete down to just 15 minutes.
Sep 26, 2025
Health
Parent-Owned Guns Most Often Used in Youth Suicide
When 16-year-old children take their own lives with firearms, they're most likely reaching for a gun that belongs to their parents.
Sep 26, 2025
Health
Massive Study Finds COVID Shots Cut Infection Risk by 58% in Pregnancy
When Nikan Zargarzadeh began combing through mountains of data on COVID-19 vaccines and pregnancy, she expected to find some reassurance for expectant mothers.
Sep 26, 2025
Space
Rogue Planet's Weather Report Shows Auroral Storms and 1,500°C Heat
Scientists have delivered the first detailed weather forecast from a world beyond our solar system, and the conditions are decidedly hostile.
Sep 26, 2025
Technology
Memory Chips Could Cut Energy Use 90% With New Material
Swedish researchers have developed an atomically thin material that could dramatically slash the energy consumption of computer memory chips, potentially addressing one of technology's fastest-growing environmental challenges.
Sep 26, 2025