WEIRD SCIENCE
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 …
A robot that normally makes appliance motors has broken the world speed record for solving Rubik’s Cube. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 May 26 – A Mitsubishi Electric robot that normally positions wires in motors for appliances like air conditioners has solved the …
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, …
Scientists in South Korea have developed a new way to grow diamonds in the lab in minutes, under normal pressure levels. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2024 May 24 – Diamonds are famously formed under high pressure and temperature, which is partly why they’re …
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 …
