A sustainable alternative to traditional hide, the luxury fabric is carbon-neutral and also can be grown to order.California-based biotech company MycoWorks has developed a brand-new eco-friendly, vegan leather derived from fungi.The leather turns mycelium-- threads from the original structure of mushrooms-- right into a product that imitates the look also feel of animal-based leather.MycoWorks...
A pulsar with its jets and magnetic fields. Credit: NASAFar out in the Milky Way, about 22,000 light-years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic power that beats anything physicists have seen before.At an enormous 1.6 billion Tesla, a pulsar named Swift J0243.6+6124 smashes the previous records of around one...
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have mapped the composition of asteroid Psyche, revealing a surface of metal, sand, and rock. Credit: Screenshot courtesy of NASAThe different surface recommends a dynamic history that could include metallic eruptions, asteroid-shaking impacts, also a lost rocky mantle.Later this year, NASA is defining to launch a probe the size...
Olduvai stone chopping tool, made from basalt, from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, 1.8-2 million years old. British Museum (1934,1214.1). Credit: BabelStone / Wikimedia.Electronics, airplanes, internal combustion engines, and the wheel are the descendants of a far more rudimentary technology: stone tools. Early stone tools can seem simple. However, their creation represents a massive landmark in...
A small implant that wraps around nerves and cools them has been shown to deliver targeted pain relief in rats. If it is as safe and reliable in human beings, the "nerve cooler" could assist individuals in managing pain without addicting opioids.Why it is crucialApproximately 20% of Americans live with chronic pain, and millions...
Credit: Sharon McCutcheon/UnsplashA new study proposes that artificial intelligence (AI) can devise approaches to wealth distribution that are more popular than systems developed by people.The discoveries made by a group of researchers at UK-based AI firm DeepMind show that machine learning systems are not just proficient at fixing complicated physics and biology issues but...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft deploying its solar arrays. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterStarting on May 6 and continuing through June 16, NASA's Lucy mission group carried out a multi-stage effort planned to deploy the spacecraft's unlatched solar array further. Throughout the thorough process, the team commanded the spacecraft to operate the array's deployment motor...
A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. Highlighted are the nucleobases (green) and the ribose-phosphate backbone (blue). Note that this is a single strand of RNA that folds back upon itself. Credit: Vossman/ WikipediaA new computational method created by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center successfully matches data from correspondent gene-expression...
Examples of abnormal signals. Shown are raw data, log-spectrogram, and obtained coefficient distribution per level for two abnormal measurements of the slider rail 0 at SNR 0 dB. Credit: DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2106598119Sounds offer crucial info regarding how well a device is running. ETH scientists have now developed a new machine learning strategy that detects whether...
A group aboard a modern icebreaker will check the site with state-of-the-art underwater drones in hopes of finding the historic vessel.Crew members of the Endurance enjoy a quick game of soccer while on a three-year Imperial Trans-Antarctica Expedition in 1915. The 144-foot ship sank in the Anarctic Ocean that same year. Credit: Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty...
