Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon?
Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? Summary NASA has issued a Request For Information (RFI) to industry for its Fission Surface Power System — an effort…
Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts
Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts Summary Puerto Rico and several US states are increasingly relying on networks of home batteries paired with rooftop solar…
Researchers Solve Long-Standing Mystery After Voyager’s 1986 Flyby of Uranus
Researchers Solve Long-Standing Mystery After Voyager’s 1986 Flyby of Uranus Summary New research led by the University of Houston, reported via ScienceDaily and picked up by Slashdot, finds that Uranus…
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry?
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry? Summary Researchers in the Polyzos group at the University of Melbourne report a new class of photocatalysts…
Aging Can Spread Through Your Body Via a Single Protein, Study Finds
Aging Can Spread Through Your Body Via a Single Protein, Study Finds Summary Researchers have identified a protein, referred to as ReHMGB1, that appears to act as a circulating messenger…
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry?
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry? Summary Researchers in the Polyzos group at the University of Melbourne report a new class of photocatalysts…
DARPA smashes wireless power record, beaming energy more than 5 miles away — and uses it to make popcorn
DARPA smashes wireless power record, beaming energy more than 5 miles away — and uses it to make popcorn Summary The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) set a…
Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders
Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders Summary Nature reports that recent advances in genome-editing technologies — notably prime editing and base editing, offshoots of…
Mysterious coffee species turns out to be a blend
Mysterious coffee species turns out to be a blend Summary Researchers revisited an obscure coffee variety commonly referred to as liberica and found it is not a single species but…
Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger
Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger Summary Science has removed an editorial expression of concern for a 2020 paper that claimed evidence of Majorana quasiparticles and…