Meet Hikaru Kuribayashi: The 18-year-old teen who started with paper folds and ended with a $100,000 global science win |
At first glance, a sheet of folded paper may seem far removed from advanced engineering.…
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Scientists transplanted 42 sea sponges into a polluted Spanish marina; 91.7% of one species survived 455 days and began creating mobile clones
Specimen of Chondrosia reniformis transplanted into the harbor. Image credit: Carlota Escarré Scientists transplanted 42…
Scientists warn that more than 1.7 million planned satellites could create a new form of space pollution and permanently change the night sky |
The rapid expansion of artificial satellite constellations is changing the appearance and accessibility of the…
Scientists drilled 1,640 feet beneath Michigan and found 689 kinds of fungi living in water that last touched the surface 11,000 years ago
A research team led by University of Michigan isolated and grew more than 200 kinds…
Titan experiences clouds, rain, rivers and changing seasons like Earth; Saturn’s 29-year journey around the Sun makes each season last more than seven Earth years
Titan has four seasons much like Earth’s, but there is one very strange catch to…
New study suggests many dinosaurs may have died within hours, not months, after the asteroid struck Earth |
For decades, the extinction of the dinosaurs has usually been pictured as a slow collapse.…
The 16,000-year-old Pando appears to be a forest, but scientists say all 47,000 trees belong to a single living organism |
At first sight, Pando appears to be an ordinary forest of thousands of trembling aspen…
For centuries, scientists couldn’t explain why flamingos aren’t born pink until a breakthrough in the 1960s revealed the answer |
For centuries, flamingos were recognised by their vivid pink feathers, yet the reason behind that…
Arika: Minnesota student Arika Kundu, 13, designed a method that turns peanut-shell waste into a material for removing pesticide residues from fresh produce; she is now competing for a $25,000 science prize
Arika Kundu, 13, uses peanut shells to help remove pesticide residues from produce. A 13-year-old…
Africa’s Lake Chad has shrunk by 90% since 1960, now the government is paying $50 billion to redirect water from the Congo River Basin into the lake
In 1823, British explorers Hugh Clapperton, Dixon Denham and Walter Oudney were some of the…