Tag: Science

Levees and seawalls defend coastlines from storm waves, erosion, and rising tides but often the 10-foot-tall procession of concrete slabs destroys shoreline ecosystems and the marine life that depends on them.

Newly emerging DNA sequencing techniques are creating customized medicines, diagnosing disease risks, and tracking infectious diseases.

With baldness visiting a third or more of men at some point in their lives, Big Pharma has been laboring to find lucrative treatments.

Sensors that read brain signals typically are the size of coins and are attached to bathing cap-size headwear. In some cases, the sensors are surgically buried in the brain.

Microplastics—those bits of plastic less than 5 millimeters, or a fifth of an inch, in diameter are littering the floors of our seas, the peaks of our mountains, and everything in between, including our internal organs.

Some components of crude oil have no value and, after the bulk of it is refined, wind up as sludge to be dumped or burned. 

Production has begun on company Q.ANT’s light-powered neural processing unit. The company plans to deliver 1,000 in the next 12 months.

Plastics are useful to hold all kinds of things when you want them to but not so useful afterward. The strong bonds that make them unbreakable as containers also make them unbreakable when they’re trash.