WEIRD SCIENCE
By Ben Coxworth – A diagram of the energy-harvesting device. Gao et al. – As compared to most other joints in the human body, the knee has quite a large range of motion … so why not put that motion to use, as a …
Meet Greater Adria. By Sarah Sloat – Around 180 million years ago, Earth fundamentally changed when Gondwana began to dismember. Today, present-day places, including South America and Australia, are visible chunks of this former ancient supercontinent, as well as not-so visible slices of …
The exoplanet K2-18b isn’t exactly Earth, but it’s as close as it gets. By Passant Rabie – Good news: We’re all moving 110 light-years away! Well, maybe not quite yet, but scientists just made a major breakthrough in the search for habitable worlds …
By David Szondy – High-resolution mapping of the distribution of elements in a sample from the 2,000-year-old Temple Scroll, as shown by the colors at the right of this image, is providing insight into the scroll’s ancient fabrication method. James Weaver. – A …
Researchers at Texas A&M University want to make batteries a bit more eco-friendly. By Mike Brown – Organic batteries that use protein to transfer electrons could one day hold the future of power storage. Researchers at Texas A&M University have discovered a means …
The helmet could offer more vital information faster. By Mike Brown – Ready to leap into action, Iron Man-style? Hypergiant Industries took the wraps off its prototype augmented reality helmet Thursday, which can be used by firefighters and rescue teams to help save …
By Jack Crosbie – The internet is about to become a vicious, chaotic battlefield, and Elon Musk says advanced A.I. could make the carnage even worse. According to a short exchange on Musk’s Twitter feed, the systems that keep the internet running are …
Yo-yoing between eating well during the week and binging on junk food over the weekend is likely a bad idea. By Margaret Morris – A relatively healthy but complex community is living together peacefully until an unruly mob of hooligans begins unsettling the …
By Ben Coxworth – Pomegranates – and their juice – are rich in polyphenols. Is992007. – Affecting one out of every 10 infants that are still in the womb, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is a potentially-serious condition that can limit brain development. According …
By Michael Irving – Researcher Mathieu Prévot with water collected from the new device that can wring water out of even very dry air. Grant Glover, University of South Alabama. – As vital as clean water is for human life, unfortunately it’s not always …
