Science

Computational physicist Giulia Menichetti is looking for “dark matter” in our food. In addition to known macronutrients, vitamins and minerals, the things we eat contain a whole world of natural chemicals we have no idea about. And those chemicals...

Running a modern research laboratory requires more than maintaining sophisticated instruments. Researchers need to complete training, obtain access, schedule and operate equipment, navigate billing, and more. For large, shared facilities, coordinating these activities across hundreds of instruments and thousands...

AI technology can create realistic clones of people’s voices. The resulting proliferation of synthetic voices ushers in all sorts of new scenarios, good and bad. “Today, with nothing more than a keyboard and an internet connection, you can type,...

The government is launching its first study into the levels of so-called 'forever chemicals' in the UK population.By taking blood and urine samples, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) hopes to gain a better understanding of any potential health...

In 2018, a strange and enormous landslide occurred in Canada’s Northwest Territories. A slab of earth roughly equivalent in volume to seven Great Pyramids of Giza suddenly began sliding downhill, leaving behind a barren scar in the forested landscape....

Creating better-performing materials comes down to having more control over their structure at the smallest possible scale. One particularly effective way to accomplish that is using nanoparticles, which have highly customizable shapes and sizes and have already shown promise...

The outer solar system is yielding its secrets to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.Less than five months into the observatory’s decade-long survey of the sky, a potential new dwarf planet has already popped up in its data, astronomers reported...

A rose-colored meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2022 has been identified as a 4.1-billion-year-old chunk of the Red Planet, a NASA study determined. The nearly two-pound meteorite was found in Mali. It was named...

A nanoscale particle with a unique structure, developed at MIT, holds potential as a customizable delivery vehicle for personalized cancer vaccines.The backbone of the vaccine is a modified, harmless bacteriophage called M13, which forms a nanofiber that can be...

Levi's, which boasts probably the longest tradition of being fixed up by its fans using anything from rhinestones to fringed cuffs, is rolling out a workshop programme this year.The firm says its research shows younger customers in particular want...