Government agencies in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state launched public procurements for more than 200 metric tons of meat from endangered angelshark species between 2015 and…
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New bio-inspired medical glue seals bleeding wounds in seconds
When you think of medical glue, chances are you picture a quick fix for small cuts. But scientists are taking the idea of glue far beyond first-aid kits. A new generation of bioadhesives—medical glues inspired by the natural world—may one day…
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Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?
Sitting a few feet away was Simon Last, one of Notion’s three cofounders. He is gangly and shy, an engineer who has relinquished management responsibilities to focus on being a “super IC”—an individual contributor. He stood to shake my…
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Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem
And looking into the future, emissions from plastics are only set to grow. Another estimate, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, projects that emissions from plastics could swell from about 2 billion metric tons to 4…
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Latest Data Rule Out a Leading Explanation of a Neutrino Anomaly
• Physics 18, s115
The MicroBooNE experiment’s five-year dataset has shown that an unpredicted neutrino-flavor oscillation is not the cause of anomalous results obtained by its predecessor.
MicroBooNE Collaboration
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‘This technology is possible today’: Nuclear waste could be future power source and increase access to a rare fuel
Nuclear waste could be repurposed into a rare isotope necessary for nuclear fusion, which could theoretically produce near-limitless amounts of clean energy, one scientist says.
The radioactive version of hydrogen, called tritium, is not…
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One of the world’s tallest trees — the centuries-old ‘Doerner Fir’ — is on fire in Oregon.
In coastal Oregon, the state’s tallest fir tree is burning.
Douglas-firs (Pseudotsuga menziesii) are Oregon’s most common trees, but the tree that’s ablaze, known as the Doerner Fir, is special. Measuring 325 feet (99.1 meters) tall and with a…
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First-of-its-kind shark with bright orange skin found in Caribbean
A nurse shark with vivid orange skin has been documented off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. The first recorded case of xanthism (also known as xanthochromism) in cartilaginous fishes in the Caribbean was the first in this species. The shark,…
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Smart nanoparticles calm arthritis by silencing inflammation at the source
Scientists have developed a new type of nanoparticle that changes shape inside immune cells, helping deliver anti-inflammatory therapy more precisely. In tests on mice with arthritis, this approach sharply reduced joint swelling and tissue…
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Ancient solar system crash may explain Bennu and Ryugu’s origin
A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the hypothesis that they were originally part of the Polana collisional family in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars…
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