By the 2060s, some airports with shorter runways may need to reduce their maximum take-off weight by the equivalent of approximately 10 passengers per flight during summer months.
Holiday flights could carry fewer passengers as world warms Read More »
Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results show that this material — which is manufactured with living cells at low temperatures — is capable of self-repairing and could eventually offer a sustainable alternative for high-emission building materials like concrete.
Living fungus-based building material repairs itself for over a month Read More »
A bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissue, enabling the production of over 10 grams of chicken muscle for cultured meat applications.
Bite-sized chunks of chicken with the texture of whole meat can be grown in the lab Read More »
Scientists have designed a ‘cosmic radio’ detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years.
‘Cosmic radio’ could find dark matter in 15 years Read More »
A new study could lead to more widespread use of imaging technique to improve survival and prevent complications.
Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real process associated with fierce lightning storms: strong updrafts generate slushy, ice-coated hailstones of ammonia and water that eventually plunge into the planet and deplete areas of ammonia. This
On Jupiter, it’s mushballs all the way down Read More »
Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? A new study shows that citizen science data from iNaturalist and eBird can reliably capture known seasonal patterns of bird migration in Northern California and Nevada — from year-round residents such as
Can citizen science be trusted? New study of birds shows it can Read More »
In 2021, Major League Baseball banned the usage of resin, and since batting averages have gone up. A group of researchers set out to reveal the science behind this.
No butterfingers in baseball: Understanding slip between fingertips and the ball Read More »
A team has developed an explainable AI model for automatic collision avoidance between ships.
Explainable AI for ship navigation raises trust, decreases human error Read More »
Diamonds with certain optically active defects can be used as highly sensitive sensors or qubits for quantum computers, where the quantum information is stored in the electron spin state of these colour centeres. However, the spin states have to be read out optically, which is often experimentally complex. Now, a team has developed an elegant
An elegant method for the detection of single spins using photovoltage Read More »