In 2018, Justin Kropp was restoring a fire-damaged transmission circuit in Southern California when disaster struck. Grid operators had earlier shut down the 115-kilovolt circuit, but six high-voltage lines that shared the corridor were still…
Steam and pollution emerge from a coal-fired power plant in Wyoming. The Environmental Protection Agency under President…
Fighting fire with fire? Try fighting venom with toxins. Botulinum toxin — possibly the deadliest chemical compound yet known in nature — may help suppress the most destructive effects of snake venom.
The preliminary findings,…
01/13/2026 Mallory Lindahl
Aditya Sripada (left) and Abhishek Warrier (right)
Curiosity allows humans to pull ideas from fiction and give life to them in the real world. For Carnegie Mellon University alumni Aditya…
A leading nuclear micro modular reactor and technology company has teamed up with a renewable energy firm to explore the deployment of advanced nuclear microreactor technologies across US federal and commercial sites.
New York–based NANO…
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Wearable health devices can track heart rate, movement, and sleep, but they only measure what happens at the surface of the body. Now, researchers in Japan have taken a different approach by turning living skin itself into a biological display…
The secret to preventing tooth decay may have been hiding in your mouth all along. Increasing levels of an amino acid in saliva can turn bacterial biofilms from damaging to protective, a clinical study has found.
Sugar doesn’t directly harm…
Could a star have its own heartbeat? It sounds more like poetry than physics, but in the case of a red giant named R Leonis, the answer is a resounding, if slightly erratic, yes.
For over two centuries, we have watched this star. R Leonis is a…
In a rare cross-continental collaboration, physicists from the United States and Japan have joined efforts to study neutrinos, the ghost-like particles that pass through everything, including us, by the trillions every second. By merging data…
