A damaged human liver has been repaired and preserved in a machine for three days before being successfully transplanted into a patient, researchers say, in what is the first operation of its kind.
31/05/2022 The Independent
Hydropower is one of humanity's oldest forms of energy, but there are still vast areas of the sector left unexplored.
30/05/2022 Reset.org
When Immunai, a machine learning firm creating a ‘GPS’ for drug development, was just getting started a leading professor though it was a joke – now he's their consultant
22/05/2022 Haaretz
As a kid growing up on the Gulf of Maine, he'd jump from boat to boat on Portland docks humming with the kind of energy that once hauled hundreds of thousands of pounds of cod into port each day. "People were making money," Odlin wistfully told…
22/05/2022 CNN
“It has been a miracle,” whispers biologist Gabriel Llorens Folgado as he studies a tumble of granite boulders for any signs of movement. The miracle is that Spain’s lynx population has been saved.
21/05/2022 The Guardian
The world is facing one of the century’s biggest challenges: How to nutritiously feed the growing population, address climate change and not destroy the ecosystems on which we all depend for life.
18/05/2022 The Conversation
Jonathan Kennedy Sowah says wherever he goes, he's always looking for a problem to solve. His latest mission is to help transform Ghana's approach to STEM -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics -- and he believes he's found a solution.
18/05/2022 CNN
Patients having major abdominal operations should be offered the option of robotic surgery, doctors and scientists have said, after a world-first clinical trial found the procedures dramatically speed up recovery times, reduce complications and…
15/05/2022 The Guardian
In the golden age of con artistry, self-proclaimed finance gurus are everywhere, with few checks on their claims.
14/05/2022 The New Yorker
California broke its record for renewable energy when solar and wind provided enough to meet all consumer demand. At the time, natural gas power plants were still on, a necessity for the grid.
13/05/2022 NPR
In the study researchers showed that the arabidopsis plant – thale cress – can successfully grow in soil collected during the Apollo missions.
12/05/2022 The Independent
The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released the first picture of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, and it’s just as predicted
12/05/2022 NewScientist
Researchers have created autonomous particles covered with patches of protein “motors.” They hope these bots will tote lifesaving drugs through bodily fluids.
12/05/2022 Wired
Blue-green algae, a type of cyanobacteria, set in a container on a windowsill powered a computer continuously for six months using photosynthesis
12/05/2022 NewScientist
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At some point this century, our food production system will collapse. Currently, its most critical link is meat, particularly beef, whose production, according to data from the FAO, has doubled in the last sixty years.
07/05/2022 El País
The insurance sector has a huge amount of power to help steer us towards a greener future. How is it using its clout?
06/05/2022 Positive News
In a bid to protect coastal communities from climate change and encourage investment, African nations are increasingly turning to mangrove restoration projects, with Mozambique becoming the latest addition to the growing list of countries with large…
06/05/2022 The Independent
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