7+ hour, 15+ min ago   (486+ words) A pigment that colors feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells. In zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, a small sexually dichromatic bird species, only males produce pheomelanin, which creates their orange cheek patches and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (797+ words) Dr. Michael Ponting is Chief Scientific Officer at Peak Nano, a leading innovator in advanced capacitor films, specialty films, and optics. That single line from The Graduate captured the optimism of a generation enamored with technology and convenience. Plastic promised…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1202+ words) In a historic first, US company Aether Biomachines is scaling up production of novel materials developed using AI to industrial quantities. Their first product is RapidPrint, a polymer filament which enables printing four times the speed of existing alternatives. This…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (292+ words) Astronauts are among the most highly trained people in the world. Most of them have advanced degrees, not to mention years of experience in highly demanding military or technical fields. Sending them to the International Space Station is expensive'it costs…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (445+ words) Have you ever looked at a Jackson Pollock painting and thought "I could do this? According to researchers at the University of Oregon, you might be wrong about that " unless you happen to be a child. In a study that…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1159+ words) I am the founder and CEO of Wildlife Alliance, a Cambodia-based organization that implements a direct on-the-ground approach to conserving natural resources and combines ecosystem management with development of economic incentives for local communities. As an environmental conservationist, my mission…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (316+ words) The oldest undisputed signs of life on Earth were found in 3.48-billion-year-old rocks from the Dresser Formation in Western Australia's Pilbara region, where hot spring deposits preserved what many believe to be cell membranes. But this fossil site is a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (355+ words) Here's how it conjures a color that nature rarely achieves through chemistry alone. The blue quandong grows throughout tropical Australia, Papua New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia. As research from Nature explains, it is a tall, spreading rainforest tree, with…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (382+ words) A recent study explains the chemistry behind the ghostly blue lights known as will-o-the-wisps. It's Halloween night, and you've decided to take a shortcut through the local graveyard (as one does). The marshy ground squelches beneath your boots, and up…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (981+ words) The recent spike in demand for carbon-free energy to power AI data centers seems to have mitigated this fear, and 2024 Pew polling suggests that a majority of Americans now support more nuclear power in the country (though this support is…...