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Kombucha, a fermented drink with a cult following, is being used to create new "living materials." These materials — cellulose embedded with enzymes — can do feats such as sensing environmental pollutants, purifying water, or create "smart" packaging ...

Aikins says the employee had spent the last 11 years serving customers. “We've offered his grief-stricken family our deepest condolences and support from his Metrolinx family who is mourning this tragic loss, ...

A new international study led by astrophysicist Eric Agol from the University of Washington has measured the densities of the seven planets of the exoplanetary system TRAPPIST-1 with extreme precision, the values obtained indicating very similar ...

"Friendships are one of the untapped resources people can draw on to pursue a happier and healthier life. They literally cost nothing and have health and well-being benefits," said William Chopik, an assistant professor of psychology at MSU and the study's ...

Date: January 21, 2021; Source: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Summary: A long-standing mystery is why fast-growing cells, like cancer cells and immune cells, rely on a seemingly inefficient form of metabolizing glucose to power their activities.

Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and Green Bank Observatory presented new findings about the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302) and the Jewel Bug Nebula (NGC 7027) at the 237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Friday, ...

Illustration of WASP-62b, the Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its atmosphere. Credit: M. Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

Summary: Scientists generally believe that cancers lack a powerful and important diversification mechanism available to pathogenic microbes - the ability to exchange and recombine genetic material between different cells. However, researchers now ...

But the fundamental question is how do all of the gas giants – Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus, collectively called the jovian planets – create persistent strong magnetic fields without the presence of metal such as iron.

Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.

Four of the flashes were accompanied by a small pulse of ultraviolet light, which appear as rapidly expanding ring. They are formed by the interaction of electrons, radio waves and the atmosphere and are known as elves (Emissions of Light and Very Low ...

This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole's event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object's ...

NASA has been studying a red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1, home to the largest group of Earth-sized planets ever found in a single solar system. TRAPPIST-1 is about 40 light-years away, and the seven rocky planets are an excellent example of the variety ...

The phenomenon was spotted by the European Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) near the island of Naru in the Pacific Ocean. Four of the flashes were accompanied by a small pulse of ultraviolet light, which appear as rapidly expanding ring.

But the question of how a gas giant creates such a magnetic attraction remains. After all, it's made of, well, gas. Professor Eduard Chekmenev, an MRI researcher from Wayne University in Michigan, ...

Well, many things of course but one of them is the weather: particularly the kind of weather events that can not be seen from Earth. These are called blue jets, and elves (short for ...

The bobbit worm, or sand striker (Eunice aphroditois), is an aquatic predatory bristle worm that ranges from 4 inches to 10 feet in length and lives in burrows it creates in the ocean floor. The ...

A Stone Age burial ground on a small Russian island revealed more than 4,300 Eurasian elk teeth pendants found in 84 separate burials. The placement of the pendants in these graves suggests they were attached to coats, dresses ...

A new treatment is giving hope that paralysis from spinal cord damage could one day be reversible. Researchers from Germany's Ruhr-University Bochum were able to get paralyzed mice to walk again after stimulating their brains to produce a particular ...

A veteran SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands atop Space Launch Complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida during the attempted launch of 143 satellites on the the Transporter-1 rideshare mission on Jan. 23, 2021. Bad weather delayed the ...