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The first functional niobium-based battery has been created in Brazil.
Researchers at USP developed the first functional battery based on niobium, a metal abundant in Brazil. The battery…
A new species of blue octopus the size of a golf ball has been discovered in the Galápagos.
The new species, named Microeledone galapagensis, was found at a depth of 1,768 metres near Darwin Island. The…
Two new species of freshwater crayfish have been discovered in Brazil.
Brazilian researchers discovered two new species of freshwater crayfish in the towns of Igrejinha and Bom Princípio…
The nerves of the clitoris have been mapped in 3D for the first time.
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam used X-ray imaging to create a three-dimensional map of the clitoral…
The first single-cell epigenetic map of the entire human body has been published.
An international team led by the Salk Institute published in the journal Science the first single-cell epigenetic map…
AI has helped discover hidden human proteins and their functions.
A team of researchers used AI to identify human proteins that until now had no known function. Among them, TM184C…
Cockroach milk has three times more energy than cow's milk.
The cockroach Diploptera punctata produces a milk-like substance to nourish embryos inside the mother's body. The…
Scientists have created an edible biscuit from PET bottle waste.
The µBites project uses microorganisms to transform PET bottle components into proteins, vitamins and other…
Scientists have discovered two new hydrothermal vent fields in the Atlantic Ocean.
An expedition aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute s Falkor (too) found two new hydrothermal vent fields in the…
A new cave with a 70-metre-wide entrance has been discovered in Vietnam.
The cave, named Thang, was found in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Quang Tri Province. It is about 3 kilometres…
Ancient human DNA has been found on cave walls with rock art in Portugal.
A Portuguese team participated in the world's first discovery of ancient human DNA preserved on prehistoric cave…
A 2,500-year-old statue buried face down under a Roman road has been discovered in Sardis.
The statue, over 2.13 metres tall, depicts a man with long hair and an elaborate tunic. It was broken into two…
Stone tools made by fish have been found on the ocean floor.
Scientists discovered stone tools in the Pacific Ocean that would have been used by fish to crack shells and obtain…
A time crystal has been created using common screen materials.
Researchers created a classical time crystal using liquid crystals, the same type of material used in smartphone and…
The extinction rate of plants at the tops of European mountains is increasing.
A study from the University of Vienna analysed 62 European mountain peaks and concluded that while plant diversity…
The Atacama Desert in Chile never has flowers.
The Desierto Florido is a phenomenon in which more than 200 species of annual plants and geophytes germinate after…
A quantum spin liquid has been observed for the first time at the University of Oxford.
Physicists at Oxford developed a new approach to observe a quantum spin liquid, a state of quantum matter that never…
Scientists have created crystals where electrons behave as if they live in a fourth spatial dimension.
MIT researchers, working at the MagLab, discovered a new family of crystals stacked with a slight twist where…
The Chandra telescope has discovered 84 hypersoft X-ray sources in space.
NASA announced that the Chandra telescope found 84 hypersoft X-ray sources, a new class of cosmic objects that behave…
The oldest known black hole star has been discovered.
Using the James Webb telescope, astronomers from MIT and other institutions identified the oldest known black hole…
The Hubble telescope has found the first black holes in a star cluster.
The globular cluster Omega Centauri, the largest in the Milky Way, should be filled with black holes left behind by…
Dyson has created a toothbrush with a camera that sees inside the mouth.
Dyson s CameraJet is an electric toothbrush with a small camera that observes the inside of the mouth during…
An exoskeleton that helps you walk on any terrain has been created.
The Hypershell Halo is an exoskeleton for outdoor activities, weighing 2.6 kilograms with a range of 20 kilometres…
Collisions of oxygen and neon at CERN have recreated the matter of the early Universe.
Collisions of oxygen-16 and neon-20 at CERN produced quark-gluon plasma, the primordial matter of the Universe. The…