The wars around the world are getting expensive. Using a million-dollar missile to shoot down a million-dollar drone a few dozen times a day in Israel, Ukraine, or the Red Sea begins to add up.
Tag: Science
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RESEARCHERS TAKE ANOTHER STEP TOWARD ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORMS
Everything that lives is made of DNA. DNA is made up of the sugar deoxyribose that forms its helical backbone and just four nucleotides—adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine.
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NEW MATERIAL DOUBLES HYDROGEN STORAGE CAPACITY
Hydrogen is making headlines as a potentially limitless clean fuel that holds more energy in a given space than lithium-ion batteries. (See “A Gold Rush for Gold Hydrogen” 5 Mar 2024.) However, as hydrogen’s benefits draw more interest, so does a key problem: the gas is hard to store.
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BIOENGINEERS 3D-PRINT LIVING SKIN DIRECTLY ONTO WOUNDS
For the first time, researchers have 3D-printed layered, living skin onto wounded areas of a living creature, preventing scarring, possible infection, and other dangers that can accompany skin grafts.
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ELECTRONICS RECYCLERS STRIKE GOLD
Electronic trash is laced with rare minerals and even gold—but recovering that gold from discarded computers’ circuitry has been too complex and expensive to make it worthwhile.
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PUT SOME AZOLLA IN THAT SALAD
Azolla is a common plant that grows on water like a thick mat and can double its biomass in two days under the right conditions.
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“A GOLD RUSH FOR GOLD HYDROGEN”
As much as 500 trillion tons of hydrogen lies beneath the Earth’s surface, a gas that could fuel everything from vehicles to electric generators.
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USING LIGHT AND SOUND TO DEFEAT ALZHEIMER’S
Clicking sounds and flickering lights have been shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease and even reverse symptoms in some cases, according to studies at several research centers.
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A BETTER WAY TO RECYCLE CRUCIAL ELEMENTS FROM BATTERIES
Key metals used in batteries, such as cobalt and lithium, are more rare every day as mobile devices, and especially electric vehicles, permeate our lives.
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BLOOD TEST FORECASTS HEART ATTACKS SIX MONTHS IN ADVANCE
Heart attacks, one of the most common causes of sudden death globally, can be foretold as far as six months into the future with a new online tool created at the Uppsala University in Sweden.