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Researchers at Rice University developed a cytokine factory patch that continuously releases healing proteins into wounds, accelerating tissue repair in mice and pigs while activating key regeneration pathways.
New engineered cell patch delivers healing proteins directly into wounds and speeds recovery in animal studies.
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A University of Gothenburg study finds thawing permafrost released massive amounts of carbon after the last Ice Age, potentially accounting for nearly half of the atmospheric carbon dioxide increase that accompanied Earth’s transition into a warmer climate.
Green ImpactStudy reveals hidden role of permafrost in ancient climate changeJoshua Shavit
The new microraptor dinosaur Jian changmaensis (left) attacks the early bird Gansus yumenensis (right) in what is now the Changma Basin of northwestern China approximately 120 million years ago.
DiscoveriesAncient Velociraptor cousin glided on four wings and hunted birdsRebecca Shavit
New SETI rules tighten how scientists verify and announce possible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
SpaceDisclosure Day: New SETI protocols aim to prevent panic, misinformationShy Cohen
SETI scientists scanned interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio technosignatures and found no evidence of artificial signals.
SpaceSETI checked 3I/ATLAS for alien signals — Here’s what they foundJoseph Shavit
A new tachyon theory argues faster-than-light particles may fit within relativity without the old paradoxes about time and causality.
SpaceNew tachyon theory could unlock the secrets of time travel and causalityJoshua Shavit
New modelling by Dr Anthony Clarke and his team suggests Stonehenge’s Altar Stone was not carried to southern England by ice alone. Humans likely moved it.
DiscoveriesAncient Britons likely transported Stonehenge’s Altar Stone 700 kilometers from ScotlandRebecca Shavit
New simulations show fast flavor conversion can either help or hinder core-collapse supernova explosions.
SpaceThe explosive fate of a collapsing star depends on neutrinosJoseph Shavit
A new analysis argues many consciousness studies may measure information processing, not subjective experience.
AIAs AI systems evolve could they really become conscious?Shy Cohen
An internal view of the reactor system that efficiently converts carbon dioxide and renewable electricity into methane.
Green ImpactScientists turn carbon dioxide into renewable methane using microbesJoshua Shavit
Iron meteorites suggest Earth’s nitrogen and phosphorus may have come from early inner solar system planetesimals.
SpaceIron meteorites unlock secrets of the early solar system and Earth’s origin
A female mammoth with her calf in a glacial landscape during the Last Glacial Maximum. Reconstruction by R. Bakker/Rotterdam for the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim.
DiscoveriesWoolly mammoths were likely butchered by hunters and gatherers, study findsRebecca Shavit
Astronomers have identified a likely evolutionary path linking dusty star-forming galaxies to massive quiescent galaxies that stopped producing stars surprisingly early in cosmic history.
SpaceEarly galaxy collisions may explain why giant galaxies died youngJoshua Shavit
Scientists tracked 37 species and found animals react strongly to human movement, often in unexpected ways.
DiscoveriesGPS study tracks how animals respond to people across AmericaHannah Shavit-Weiner
Reconstruction of the early Cambrian seafloor, depicting colonies of Protomelission gatehousei and Dayingomelission hexaclitia living among archaeocyath reefs in shallow seas approximately 520 million years ago.
DiscoveriesFossil discovery solves 500-million-year-old mystery about the dawn of animal lifeRebecca Shavit
Simulations suggest six spacecraft could weaken geomagnetic storms before they disrupt Earth’s satellites, GPS, and power grids.
SpaceSix-satellite ‘StormWall’ could stop dangerous solar storms before they hit EarthJoseph Shavit
Fish that flop across land may be using one of evolution’s oldest movement tricks, a simple gait shared across distant species. By copying it in a robot, researchers traced a common mechanical pattern that may echo how vertebrates first began moving ashore.
DiscoveriesRobot fish helps explain how real fish learned to move on landRebecca Shavit