The phageome: A hidden kingdom within your gut
By Amber Dance You’ve probably heard of the microbiome — the hordes of bacteria and other tiny life forms that live in our guts. Well, it turns out those bacteria have viruses that…
Divers find bones of an extinct Caribbean monkey
A collaborative effort between cave divers and scientists has led to the discovery of a previously unknown assemblage of extinct monkey fossils located deep within the submerged passages of a Caribbean cave. This…
Engineers create a chip-based tractor beam for biological particles
Adam Zewe | MIT News MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium Falconin the film “Star Wars,” that could someday help biologists and clinicians study DNA,…
Discovery of 4,000-Year-Old Burial Chamber in Asiut, Egypt
A funerary chamber dating back approximately 4,000 years, belonging to the daughter of an ancient Egyptian governor, was recently discovered in Asiut. This discovery took place in the context of the largest non-royal…
China presents spacesuit for moon landing in 2030
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has introduced a newly developed lightweight spacesuit, the result of four years of intensive research and development. According to a report by state broadcaster CCTV, this spacesuit…
Graphene-based brain chip implanted in cancer patient
A Spain-based startup has achieved a significant milestone by demonstrating the efficacy of its graphene-based brain-computer interface (BCI) in enabling precise tumor surgeries. INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, a company focused on developing advanced brain-computer interface…
Milky Way map reveals 1.5 billion cosmic jewels
Over a span of more than 13 years and accumulating over 500 terabytes of data, the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy has now been completed. This project, the largest ever undertaken…
Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Mars wasn’t always the cold desert we see today. There’s increasing evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet’s surface, billions of years ago. And if there was water,…
The discovery of the world’s oldest cheese
Discovery of world’s oldest cheese reveals complex evolutionary relationship between humans and microbes. In the late 1970s, a team of archaeologists became preoccupied with a set of mummies that were so distinctive that…
Striped rock found on Mars
The detection by the Perseverance rover of a previously unseen black and white striped rock on Mars came as a surprise to NASA scientists. It raises the question of whether this could be…