Earth’s rarest material is ‘not’ diamond: Scientists reveal new evidence that changes how we consider ‘rare’ |

[ad_1] A spacecraft drifting past Neptune would not need much imagination to picture diamonds forming in its atmosphere. Deep inside ice giants, carbon compounds are squeezed under pressures that break molecular bonds and reorganise atoms into crystalline structures. In lab experiments and planetary simulations, scientists have modelled this “diamond rain” for decades, and missions like […]

Oxford Vaccine: World’s first AI-designed vaccine developed by UK scientists enters human trials | World News

[ad_1] World’s first AI-designed vaccine trial begins at Oxford A vaccine designed with the help of artificial intelligence has entered human trials in what scientists are calling a world-first moment for medical research and drug development.The vaccine, developed by researchers at the University of Oxford in partnership with biotechnology company Basecamp Research, is being tested […]

Honeybees just helped scientists build tiny drones that navigate without GPS and find their way home |

[ad_1] Most drones rely on GPS and powerful computers to find their way around. That makes them heavy, expensive, and power-hungry, basically not practical for anything small. But honeybees? They navigate perfectly with brains smaller than a grain of rice. Now, scientists at Delft University of Technology have figured out their secret and built drones […]

5300-year-old Europe’s oldest mummy may be ‘alive’: Scientists reveal shocking microbial activity | World News

[ad_1] In a cold store in northern Italy, Ötzi the Iceman lies behind controlled glass and steel, kept at a steady chill that mimics the glacier that once sealed him away. He has been there since 1991, when hikers stumbled upon what appeared to be a recent body lodged in the melting ice of the […]

121-million-year-old bird fossil stuns scientists with tail feathers twice the length of its body |

[ad_1] A bird preserved in a museum drawer for years has begun to draw attention after closer inspection revealed an unusual tail structure. The fossil belongs to Plumadraco bankoorum, a small bird that lived around 121 million years ago in what is now northern China. It had been stored among other avian remains before its […]

23,000-year-old footprints in New Mexico changed everything scientists believed about the first Americans | World News

[ad_1] For most of the twentieth century, the story of how humans arrived in North America felt settled. They came from Siberia, crossed a land bridge called Beringia, moved south as the ice sheets retreated, and by around 13,000 years ago had given rise to the Clovis culture, the earliest widely accepted evidence of human […]

Scientists found a hidden highway to the Moon, and it could make space travel much cheaper |

[ad_1] Getting to the moon is expensive. Every kilogram of fuel that a spacecraft carries has to be lifted off Earth, which itself burns more fuel. This is why aerospace engineers and orbital mechanics researchers spend enormous amounts of time hunting for even the smallest efficiencies in how a spacecraft travels. A few meters per […]

Mayday! SA scientists identified hantavirus outbreak in 24 hours

[ad_1] JOHANNESBURG: When South African infectious disease specialist Lucille Blumberg checked her email on the morning of May 1, while the country was celebrating the Labour Day holiday, an urgent message caught her attention.A UK-based colleague, who monitors diseases in remote British overseas territories in the South Atlantic Ocean, had written about a passenger from […]

Scientists found fossil pollen that revealed a hidden Nile channel used to build the Great Pyramid |

[ad_1] Ancient Egyptians ingeniously utilized a forgotten, high-volume Nile branch, the Khufu Branch, to transport massive pyramid stones. Image credit: Chatgpt If you’ve spent any time on TikTok or history subreddits, you’ve definitely seen the wild theories on how the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Aliens, lost future civilisations, complicated sound-wave levitation- people will […]

Scientists turn sheep wool into a bone-healing material in a major medical breakthrough |

[ad_1] Scientists at King’s College London have developed an experimental bone-healing material made from sheep wool that could one day offer a sustainable alternative to collagen in regenerative medicine. The research focused on keratin, a structural protein naturally found in wool, hair, and nails. In laboratory and animal tests, the wool-derived material successfully supported bone […]