1+ day, 58+ min ago   (474+ words) Millions of people playing their daily Wordle games will be eager to hear about this new research. Using information theory, the team of researchers from Binghamton University and State University of New York has developed a method to solve the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (628+ words) On September 3rd, the European Space Agency marked the successful arrival of its BepiColombo mission to Mercury, just the third spacecraft to ever visit our solar system’s innermost planet. Despite being so close to Earth, it takes roughly as much time…...

5+ day, 50+ min ago   (426+ words) An arthritis drug of all things was recently found in a study to restore up to 100% of hair in patients with severe alopecia. Around 2% of the world population live with alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder where the human immune system…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (603+ words) It wasn’t just the roars of the dinosaurs that made up the soundscape of the animal world during the Jurassic period. Crickets and grasshoppers communicated through a variety of songs and high-pitched sounds, some of which you can now listen…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (465+ words) An East Honolulu high school student discovered a fungi in coconut husks that could clean up plastics and sunscreen from the ocean—and her won multiple awards at the Hawaiʻi State Science & Engineering Fair. Vera Wang, a senior at Kaiser…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (431+ words) Coral dying from heat stress has been revived after scientists successfully applied probiotic and post-biotic treatments in open seas for the the first time. Although probiotics have previously been shown to rehabilitate corals in South Florida and in aquarium environments,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (502+ words) The next time you hear a blackbird singing in the dead of night, know that you’re listening to the most pleasant song in the world. What the bird lacks in dressage it makes up for in repertoire, a new survey…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (392+ words) On Governor’s Island in New York City, a nonprofit is turning wasted oyster shells into new oyster reefs that filter pollutants from the harbor, absorb wave energy, and supply the city’s restaurant industry. Called the Billion Oyster Project, the objective…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (1170+ words) Reprinted with permission from World at Large. 9 months ahead of schedule, and surviving attempts in both Trump Administrations to cut its budget in half, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope soared into space on Sunday afternoon aboard a SpaceX Falcon…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (677+ words) He’s no poison-arrow frog, but that doesn’t mean the American bullfrog doesn’t understand poison—far from it, according to scientists. Hidden within the humble bullfrog’s genetics is the equipment to produce an antidote to a deadly shellfish toxin that afflicts…...