WEIRD SCIENCE
Cultured meat is the next step in a long history of alternatives to conventional meat. James R. Howe VI, Neuroscience and Genetics, UC San Diego – Produced in partnership with New Harvest – First cultured hamburger – unbaked. Now, more than …
Michael Irving – The Chiense satellite Micius has helped break the quantum teleportation distance record, transmitting entangled photons across a distance of 1,200 km (746 mi) (Credit: Jian-Wei Pan). Chinese scientists have smashed the quantum entanglement distance record. Transmitting information through entangled …
Through computationally intensive computer simulations, researchers have discovered that “nuclear pasta,” found in the crusts of neutron stars, is the strongest material in the universe. By Paul Ratner – – The strongest material in the universe may be the whimsically named “nuclear pasta.” …
Michael Irving – The sprayable antenna is made of MXene, a 2D titanium carbide material, which is extremely conductive and in tests performs as well as traditional antennas (Credit: Drexel University). If a device connects wirelessly to other things, chances are high …
By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News – The synthetic cell looks identical to the ‘wild type’. Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA. The researchers constructed a bacterium’s “genetic …
James Holloway – Could the fediverse help to restore the web we lost? (Credit: Eukombos) Since its launch in October 2016, microblogging social network Mastodon has been gaining ground, reaching 1 million users as of December 2017. To many it’s the …
It’s a chance to turn something very abundant into something very useful. By James Dennin – For a century and a half or more, researchers have been trying to figure out how to do something useful with all the carbon dioxide floating around …
Michael Irving – An artist’s rendition of Listeria bacteria, which have been found to produce electricity (Credit: UC Berkeley/Amy Ca. The diverse microbes that live in our gut keep turning up new surprises. In recent years this tiny ecosystem has been found to …
“This is actually a rather amazing finding.” By Emma Betuel – Synthetic sandalwood, better known for its role as sock-drawer potpourri, had unexpected effects on hair regrowth in a recently released study in Nature Communications. But although the application of this study has to …
by Stephen Johnson – A new computer model predicts that storms in the 21st century will become increasingly violent (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). The 21st century is not only projected to see more hurricanes, but also ones so extreme that scientists might …
