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In this illustration, an Arabidopsis plant and its seeds sit beside a glass of milk. Researchers engineered the seeds to make a modified form of β-casein, a protein found in cow’s milk, and found that it accumulated in unexpected clusters associated with oil droplets.
Researchers grow milk protein in plants, opening a path to sustainable dairy without cows.
Joshua Shavitupda
An artist’s impression of Nāpōwawāʻenakaulua, the oldest compact pair of quasars ever observed.
SpaceJWST finds Nāpōwawāʻenakaulua, a record-setting quasar pair from the cosmic dawnJoseph Shavit
An experimental setup at Purdue University uses two laser beams, a spatial filter, and a single-photon detector to demonstrate how an individual photon can switch a stronger beam of light on and off, a potential breakthrough for processing information in quantum photonic circuits.
DiscoveriesPurdue researchers probe how to generate and control photons on quantum chipsShy Cohen
Radio pulses spaced about eight minutes apart trace a white dwarf orbiting a Sun-like star more than 5,000 light-years away.
SpaceRadio pulses reveal a white dwarf binary system more than 5,000 light-years awayJoseph Shavit
Bright galaxies give way to dark voids in this artist’s impression of the universe’s distant future. The study estimates that white dwarfs could evaporate in about 10⁷⁸ years if a proposed process similar to Hawking radiation occurs.
SpaceThe universe will end much sooner than previously predicted, new model findsJoseph Shavit
A Danish study links regular coffee drinking to lower small-intestinal pH and greater bacterial richness in stool.
HealthRegular coffee drinking linked to changes in gut functionsMac Oliveau
Sit-stand desk users logged 43 more minutes of daily computer activity in a study of 10,145 employees. The study did not measure output.
DiscoveriesThis small change at work significantly improves productivityJoseph Shavit
An artist’s rendering shows a proposed atmospheric probe approaching Uranus, with Neptune at right. A future probe could measure argon isotopes to help distinguish gas inherited during planet formation from gas produced by radioactive decay in buried rock.
SpaceAncient argon may hide clues to the rocky interiors of Uranus and NeptuneJoseph Shavit
Conceptual architecture of freespace twistronics and optical supertopologies.
DiscoveriesScientists twist laser light into patterns that can repair themselvesShy Cohen
An artist’s rendering shows a wheeled rover crossing the floor of Valles Marineris, a walking robot approaching a cave and a scout flying overhead. Germany’s VaMEx project is developing technology that could help robots like these explore Mars together.
SpaceA robot swarm could explore Mars by air, on foot and undergroundJoseph Shavit
An artist’s reconstruction shows a child and an adult shaping a clay figurine at a Natufian settlement. Overlapping fingerprints on a figure found at Eynan-Mallaha suggest that a child and an older maker handled the same piece while the clay was still soft.
DiscoveriesAncient fingerprints suggest children helped make clay figurines 15,000 years agoJoshua Shavit
In this illustration, scientists and visitors discuss a prism demonstration at a public science event. In a recent survey, both groups saw curiosity as central to science, but differed on the roles of creativity and established methods.
DiscoveriesScientists and the general public define science very differentlyJoshua Shavit
In this reconstruction, a fishmonger displays freshwater perch and pike near a medieval Danish friary. Carbon from freshwater fish can make human bones appear centuries older in radiocarbon dating.
DiscoveriesFreshwater fish can make human bones appear centuries olderJoshua Shavit
Fossilized teeth from giant prehistoric rodents discovered in Thailand’s Krabi Province, including the newly identified Yakamys sirindhornae, provide new clues about the early evolution and diversity of large-bodied rodents in Southeast Asia.
DiscoveriesPaleontologists discover a giant rodent that lived in Thailand 34 million years agoRebecca Shavit
Waterloo researchers used a boiling drop to cool a simulated chip hotspot by 17°C in 15 seconds in a hybrid immersion cooling test.
AIHybrid cooling system could make AI data centers cheaper and more efficientShy Cohen
Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744), a massive galaxy cluster whose gravitational pull magnifies light from distant objects, including Abell2744-QSO1, an unusually compact and distant source from the early universe.
SpaceLittle red dots may hold the secret to the universe’s first black holesJoseph Shavit
Concept art for how a NOM4D-inspired device might autonomously construct a truss structure in space.
SpaceCaltech ASTRA robot assembles a structure in orbit for the first timeJoseph Shavit