Tag: Science

Those blocks of hard foam packing around your flat-screen TV look like dinner to an African mealworm. 

Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory have created a process to salvage organic matter from wastewater and use it as a feedstock to make “sustainable”—non-polluting—jet fuel. 

Our brains have hordes of neural stem cells that can grow into new brain cells. They’re dormant until a signal jolts them awake and they begin to make young and healthy new cells.

Nanoplastic particles—pieces smaller than a thousandth of a millimeter or four thousandths of an inch—have been found to block the effects of some antibiotics and could worsen the rising crisis of antibiotic resistance.

A team of scientists from the University of California Los Angeles and the University of Rome Tor Vergata have made genes that work the same as nature’s own versions.

Jump Aero, a California startup, has booked the first commercial orders for its JA1 Pulse, a flying first-aid station that can be airborne in less than a minute and is designed to reach any remote or wilderness location within 30 miles in no more than 10 minutes. 

Forget your image of nuclear power plants surrounded by chain link fences and with giant concrete cooling towers and armed security.

A skin patch developed at the University of Chicago delivers unnoticeable electric pulses across wounds and prevents bacteria from infecting exposed areas.