Researchers have created a winged microchip around the size of a sand grain that may be the smallest flying device yet made. They’re designed to be carried around by the wind and track pollution.
Engineers figured out how to cook 3D printed chicken with lasers
Setup can’t synthesize complete meals like the Star Trek Replicator, but it’s a start
Gold of the Great Steppe review – the breathtaking lives of history’s ‘barbarians’
Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeFrom their astounding burial mounds to their dazzling horses dressed up as mythical beasts, this exhibition about Kazakhstan’s ancient nomads shows the power of archaeology to revive the deadA young archer was buried around…
Sofar and DARPA look to standardize ocean monitoring gadgets with Bristlemouth
The ocean is important to countless industries, but we still only have a rough idea of what it’s like as a whole at any given time. To foster a new generation of ocean-monitoring floats and other devices, Sofar Ocean Technologies and DARPA are publishing an open hardware standard called Bristlemouth so that researchers will have […]
Following expert advice, FDA authorizes boosters for people 65+, high risk
Advisors for the CDC will meet Thursday to set guidance on use of boosters.
‘Jumping Gene’ May Have Erased Tails In Humans and Other Apes
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Mammals from mice to monkeys have tails. But humans and our cousins the great apes lack them. Now, researchers may have unearthed a simple genetic change that led to our abbreviated back end: an itine…
Idaho COVID crisis: Hospitals overflowing with sicker, younger patients
“These people didn’t need to die now, and they didn’t need to die like this.”
Scientists use AI to create drug regime for rare form of brain cancer in children
Hopes that breakthrough marks new era where artificial intelligence can develop treatments for all types of cancerScientists have successfully used artificial intelligence to create a new drug regime for children with a deadly form of brain cancer that…
New genomic analysis sorts out when Polynesians reached which islands
Figuring out people’s movement across the Pacific is not a simple thing.
Two-legged dinosaurs may have swung tails to run faster, say scientists
A computer simulation could help us better understand the evolution of movement in animalsTwo-legged dinosaurs may have swung their tails as they crashed through the undergrowth – just like humans swing their arms – according to scientists who have mod…