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Scientists have used genetically engineered bacteria to simultaneously create and color fabrics in a one-pot method. Compared with current methods that rely on fossil fuels, the…
Look into the night sky, and it might seem like space is a vast expanse of darkness. But are any regions darker than others? What’s the…
QUICK FACTSMilestone: First person infected with SARSDate: Nov. 16, 2002Where: Foshan, ChinaWho: A food handlerIn January 2003, epidemiologists in China identified two cases of “atypical pneumonia”…
Scientists at IBM have created two new quantum processing units (QPUs) that they say will take them a step closer to achieving quantum advantage by next…
Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data.Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical…
A New Jersey man has died in the first documented fatal case of alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy triggered by tick bites.In September 2024, the 47-year-old…
An astrophotographer has captured a spectacular shot of a falling skydiver perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun, making it seem like the airborne…
For the first time, scientists have successfully sequenced woolly mammoth RNA, shattering the assumption that this fragile genetic molecule couldn’t survive from so long ago.RNA, or…
Giant North American “hell pigs” may have munched on bones around 30 million years ago, while their smaller counterparts ripped through softer material, like flesh, new…
The eruptions of some mid-ocean volcanoes may be the echoes of supercontinent breakups that persisted for tens of millions of years after the rearrangement of Earth’s…
