Survival Stuff
A next-gen antibiotic kills drug-resistant bacteria while leaving good gut bacteria intact. Depositphotos – Antibiotics kill disease-causing bacteria as well as the beneficial ones living in our gut, disturbing the health-maintaining microbiome. A new antibiotic specifically targets hard-to-kill bacteria while leaving our good …
Coming to America: The hybrid super-pig has the potential to do billions of dollars’ worth of damage to crops. Depositphotos View 4 Images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2024 May 30 – A problem shared is not always a problem halved, as invasive wild “super-pigs” …
Scientists are about to start growing new teeth in humans. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2024 May 28 – The world’s first human trial of a drug that can regenerate teeth will begin in a few months, less than a year on from news …
Four human brain organoids, each with around 10,000 living human brain cells, wired into a biocomputing array. FinalSpark – View 5 Images – By Loz Blain 2024 May 28 – Current AI training methods burn colossal amounts of energy to learn, but the human …
Promising discovery targets sperm to create temporary sterility, with no other side effects. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2024 May 23 – A non-hormonal, reversible and non-toxic male birth control could be a step closer, with scientists successfully targeting a protein that’s crucial in …
An illustration of early galaxies forming. NASA – By Michael Irving 2024 May 24 – The James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of galaxies being born at the cosmic dawn. This is the first time this has ever been witnessed by astronomers, …
Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the Earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic. Svein-Magne Tunli – tunliweb.no/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-SA – By David Wallace, Assistant Clinical Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University Updated: 2024 May 13 – The …
Robots could be surgically swapping heads within the decade. BrainBridge – By Bronwyn Thompson 2024 May 22 – In what sounds more like the opening scene from a B-grade sci-fi/horror flick, head transplant operations performed entirely by robotic surgeons could be coming to a …
An aerial view of the rust-colored Kutuk River in Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska. Thawing permafrost is exposing minerals to weathering, increasing the acidity of the water, which releases metals like iron, zinc and copper. Ken Hill/National Park Service View …
The extremely bright area at about 4 o’clock shows a solar flare from May 10th rated at X5.8 – the image is rendered in a subset of extreme ultraviolet light. NASA SDO – By Michael Franco 2024 May 17 – While millions of people …
