Plastic debris on a beach on Lanai, a sparsely populated Hawaiian island. Matthew Koller, CC BY-ND – Authors Matthew Savoca, Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University Anna Robuck, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Lauren Kashiwabara, Master’s Degree Student in Biological …
(Museums Victoria) – By Jacinta Bowler 2021 Nov 22 – In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. – Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock resting …
Xenobots are the world’s first AI-designed biological robots that can self-repair and self-replicate. What is an AI-designed organic robot that can self-repair and make babies? Getty Images – Andrea Morris Contributor Science Science, Robots & The Arts – The year was 1948 when …
In the past rock art research has been the domain of non-Indigenous academics but a group of Bininj people are now documenting it as they seek to preserve their history. Traditional owner Ricky Nabarlambarl, and other Bininj, search for rock art in remote …
Image of snow covering Hawaiian peaks courtesy https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/89356/snow-capped-summits-in-hawaii – By Ryan Adamson, AccuWeather meteorologist Updated 2021 Dec 03 – A potent storm system has begun to wallop the Hawaiian Islands with gusty winds and widespread flooding rain, with blizzard conditions expected at some …
In first on-camera interview since accidental film-set shooting, actor says there is only one question: ‘where did the live round come from?’ “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never,” said Alec Baldwin of the Rust …
Vegan leather alternative isn’t just the hot fashion must-have – it could teach us about consumption and waste. Grown in trays, mycelium is engineered to look and feel like calfskin or sheepskin. Photograph: Carla Tramullas – By Jess Cartner-Morley @JessC_M 2021 Dec 02 …
This electromechanical machine, used in the 1890 U.S. census, was the first automated data processing system. Niall Kennedy/Flickr, CC BY-NC – By David Lindsay Roberts, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Prince George’s Community College 2021 Dec 01 – The U.S. Constitution requires that a …
A team of scientists has created a strange phase of matter called a time crystal in Google’s Sycamore quantum processor. Google Quantum AI – By Michael Irving 2021 Nov 30 – Time crystals sound like something a video game character would be trying to …
Lance Oditt / Friends of Pando, Author provided – By Richard Elton Walton, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biology, Newcastle University Updated 2021 Nov 24 – In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a …
