It’s the Mad Max dream of a bird’s nest: A menacing composite of metal, clay, twig and plastic. Spotted in a sugar maple tree in Antwerp, Belgium, the gnarly architecture brims with…
Author: Carolyn Gramling
No more needles, an oral insulin medication could be on the horizon
Insulin is a life-saving medication, helping to control blood sugar levels in diabetic patients. Although not a cure, this breakthrough has saved millions of lives, providing treatment for a disease that was…
Repairing broken circuits in the brain could help treat Parkinson’s disease
Scientists delve into how repairing dysfunctional brain circuits in Parkinson’s can offer another path forward for new treatment strategies. Parkinson’s is a debilitating disease marked by loss of brain cells that produce…
Magnetic ‘rusty’ nanoparticles pull estrogen out of water
A new “smart rust” could one day help pull pollutants out of waterways, leaving cleaner water behind. Researchers adorned tiny particles of iron oxide, better known as rust, with “sticky” molecules that…
The fastest-evolving moss in the world may not adapt to climate change
The world’s oldest moss has seen four mass extinctions — but may not survive climate change. The genus Takakia has the highest number of fast-evolving genes of any moss, researchers report August…
Nature’s changing colors makes climate change visible
Nature’s changing colors makes climate change visible
This ‘thermal cloak’ keeps spaces from getting either too hot or cold
If you’ve ever burned your hands on a car steering wheel, you know how hot the inside of a car can get on a summer day. But a new fabric could one…
AI is revolutionizing manual cell counting
Cell counting is extremely important in research, medicine, and even environmental monitoring where scientists use it to track cell growth, a person’s health, or monitor plankton levels in oceans or bacteria in…
Extreme heat taxes the body in many ways. Here’s how
July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. It could even be the hottest month in human history. And it’s just one in a chain of broken heat records (SN: 7/13/23). A…
50 years ago, mysterious glass hinted at Earth’s violent past
Microtektites found in Caribbean may shed light on tektite origin — Science News, August 11, 1973 Though their origin remains a mystery to scientists, huge strewn fields of tektites have been found…