Python fangs inspired a fix for shoulder injuries common in sports
3-D printing: A means of producing physical items — including toys, foods and even body parts — using a machine that takes instructions from a computer program.
Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in quartz rock
To test this idea, the team conducted experiments with quartz crystals placed in a solution containing gold and subjected to moderate pressures from an actuator.
How understanding the brain’s microglia could end neurodegeneration
Yet, despite their vigilance, microglia can sometimes engage in friendly fire, with a growing body of evidence suggesting they may be the engineers behind some of the brain’s most intractable conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease and depression.
Sweat monitor could reveal when you are exercising too hard
The device could be used to improve worker safety in physically demanding jobs, such as the construction industry, as well as to help sportspeople optimise their training, says John Rogers at Northwestern University in Illinois.
Over 40% of pet cats play fetch — but scientists aren’t quite sure why
” During the domestication of canines, we have actually picked them for some particular behaviors, such as retrieving, that probably clarify to a bigger level why [bring] actions is much more typical in pets,” research co-author Mikel Delgado, a pet behaviorist at Purdue College in Indiana, stated in a meeting with PLOS One supplied to...
What are the weird noises coming from Boeing’s Starliner capsule?
“The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experience noise and feedback.” The feedback has no technical impact on the crew or the craft’s operations, it added.
Boat-ramming orcas may be using yachts as target practice toys, scientists suggest
From reports of the killer whales' behavior towards sailboats, DĂaz LĂłpez believes the orcas are performing similar actions as they would during a hunt: repeatedly ramming the fast-moving rudder before trying to bite it.
2 spacecraft caught the waves that might heat and accelerate the solar wind
The findings provide “a very strong indication that Alfvén waves can heat and accelerate the solar wind,” says Jean Perez, a plasma physicist at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne who was not involved in the study.
Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in quartz rock
To test this idea, the team conducted experiments with quartz crystals placed in a solution containing gold and subjected to moderate pressures from an actuator.
Here’s why some shooting stars have long-lasting afterglows
Classical physics is an explanation of the nature and properties of matter and energy that relies on descriptions such as Newton’s laws of motion.
World’s biggest battery coming to Maine — and it could store 130 million times more energy than your laptop
"The project will ensure a more reliable, clean, and affordable grid in New England by reducing transmission congestion and making valuable wind energy resources available when and where they are needed," said Jaramillo in the statement.
Mayo is weirdly great for understanding nuclear fusion experiments
The classic condiment is useful for understanding how materials behave, not only when smeared on sandwiches or plopped in potato salads, but also when deployed in nuclear fusion experiments.
Early galaxies weren’t mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds
The universe has expanded greatly since it was born about 13.8 billion years ago in the Big Bang, and that means the light from early galaxies appears reddened by the time it reaches Earth, much as how an ambulance siren sounds lower-pitched to people as the vehicle drives away.
How a new kind of vaccine could lead to the eradication of Alzheimer’s
Vaxxinity, which is based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is working on vaccines designed to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s or even stop it from developing in the first place.
Remote seamounts in the southeast Pacific may be home to 20 new species
A Chrysogorgia (golden coral) encountered by a robot diving along an unnamed Nazca Ridge seamount harbors other deep-sea species, including a Calliaster seastar and Lyrocteis ctenophore (yellow, gelatinous animals with trailing tentacles).
JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets
Ray Jayawardhana at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and his colleagues found these strange worlds in the NGC 1333 star cluster using the James Webb Space Telescope.
Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in