Less protein for maggots means longer lives for fruit flies
Back in the 1930s, scientists noticed that water fleas and rats fed restricted diets while young went on to live longer. The same effect has since turned up in fruit…
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New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery
Equipment to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air or smokestacks generally works through a sort of reversible filter. Air is passed through granules or a liquid that absorbs the CO2,…
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
The infamous Carrington Event of 1859 has long been considered the first extreme space weather event, but there have been reports of minor disturbances to telegraph equipment during geomagnetic storms…
Robot dog runs a marathon faster than the average human, all on a single charge
Engineers in South Korea created a first-of-its-kind robot dog capable of completing a marathon faster than many humans, and it did it all on a single charge. The quadruped, called…
Reliable Robots: Meet Johnson’s Dexterous Robotics Team
Dexterous Robotics Team lead Shaun Azimi conducts a demonstration with NASA’s Valkyrie humanoid robot. NASA The idea of humans and robots working side-by-side in space was once the stuff of…
Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Researchers say they recently found Google ads delivering a sophisticated tech support scam that freezes the screens of both Windows and Mac devices and displays messages urgently instructing them to…
Is solar’s growth finally slowing in the US?
Normally, we try to update you quarterly on what’s going on with the US electric grid since it provides a nice view of developing trends and smooths out some month-to-month…
Rocks from Pompeii suburb tells a story of destruction—that could help us today
Two-thousand years ago, a Roman author and lawyer named Pliny the Younger wrote an account of one of the most destructive disasters in human history. He chronicled Mount Vesuvius’ eruption…
Sweden’s solution to stop spam callers: Be ruder!
Swedish police have a message for anyone who thinks they’re talking to spam callers: hang up the phone, and embrace being rude. Local authorities are teaming up with five national…
With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time
The first in a new class of space telescopes is on track to reach the launch pad in the early 2030s, NASA announced this week. The PRIMA mission will be…