Meet Jeremiah Bents, the Minnesota student who recreated Mars soil in a lab to test whether future astronauts could clean contaminated water |
Mars may be millions of kilometres from Minnesota, but for Cloquet student Jeremiah Bents, one…
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Meet Leon Wang, the 17-year-old Connecticut student who found 2 FDA-approved drugs that reduced Alzheimer’s-linked damage in lab-grown brain cells
Leon Wang, the 17-year-old Connecticut student (Image Credit: Society For Science) Alzheimer’s disease remains one…
In the 1500s, Spanish explorers left pigs on a Georgia island as future food; centuries of feast and famine produced hogs that rapidly store fat and are now used to study obesity and metabolic disease
Ossabaw Island Hogs (Representational Image Generated using AI tool) Centuries ago, Spanish explorers sailing along…
In 2019, a 165-tonne underwater art structure was submerged beneath the Great Barrier Reef; today, coral and marine creatures are slowly transforming the structure |
Beneath the surface of the Great Barrier Reef, a 165-tonne building is being slowly reshaped…
After years of invasive rats threatening island wildlife, Tuvalu removed them from six islets; residents are now seeing birds and coconut crabs return |
On small islands scattered across the Pacific, changes in wildlife can be surprisingly easy to…
Freezing liquid inside optical fibre makes light and sound interact more than 1,000 times more strongly
Representational photo of a frozen optical fiber core in a glass capillary, which guides and…
Meet Vick Tan: The Minnesota student who turned a teabag into a low-cost filter that removed more than 90% of arsenic from water |
A small teabag may not seem like much of a solution to polluted drinking water,…
Brazil’s giant orange juice plant will turn citrus wastewater into biogas to power industrial operations |
A major orange juice processing project in Brazil is taking an unusual approach to one…
Why August can become a hungry month for honeybees, despite summer still being in full swing
August may look like a busy month in a garden, meadow or city park, but…
Nasa’s 2028 Mars mission will send a spacecraft with a nuclear reactor toward Mars and release three small helicopters to explore the planet |
In late 2028, Nasa plans to send something unusual towards Mars, a spacecraft carrying a…