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New way of making espresso with ultrasound

Researchers at UNSW Sydney have developed a new espresso-brewing method using ultrasonic sound waves with…

Key mission for Europe's commercial space enterprise scrubbed again

Isar Aerospace is not hurting for money, but it is sorely lacking in the currency of flight experience.

COVID vaccines still protect against heart problems, large study finds

Despite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination.

A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation

The rocket's breakup likely generated 100 to 150 new pieces of space junk.

Good news—we have extra time before the Sun ends life on Earth

Will the Sun roast Earth’s plants or starve them?

Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works,…

Sperm have been made magnetic to allow IVF inside the body

IVF could be done inside the body using sperm that have been magnetised, allowing them to be directed to an egg while…

The social media ban is an experiment – here’s how it will be studied

Scientists have long grappled with how to measure the effect of social media on children.

Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins

Are useful and error-free quantum computers only two years away?

Quantum computing firm QuEra says it plans to make a fault-tolerant quantum computer and offer it to users through the…

Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks

This has been a persistent, behind-the-scenes dispute between NASA and Roscosmos.

A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means

In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.

We may have finally solved cosmology's chicken-or-the-egg problem

Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question.

Successful Psilocybin Treatment of Alzheimer

A case report documents transient functional improvements in an advanced Alzheimer's disease patient following…

Why Delhi feels hotter than what temperatures show

We spent a day out in the city with a thermal camera, recording surface temperatures indoors and outdoors.

The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

Researchers have sequenced the genome of *Lanmaoa asiatica*, a mushroom in Yunnan, China that causes vivid…

Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley's comet, twice? It's complicated

University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066

Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress

Utah is experiencing a measles surge that has raised concerns about the United States potentially reversing decades of…

Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

A peer-reviewed study of breast milk samples from Seattle mothers found alarming levels of hormone-disrupting chemicals…

A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown – CNN

A mysterious "cold blob" in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland has cooled by nearly 1 degree Celsius since 1900…

SpaceX, Adding It Up – The $235B Cash Gap

SpaceX has disclosed approximately $235 billion in cash commitments through 2030 but plans to raise only $50-75 billion…

Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

# Summary Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is likely not unique to Earth-based…

4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

FDA OKs first new sunscreen ingredient in more than 25 years

The FDA has approved bemotrizinol, the first new sunscreen ingredient in over 25 years, which protects against both UVA…

Ancient genome duplications laid the foundations of complex brains

Why does paper fold so well?

A BBC CrowdScience episode explores why paper holds creases so well by examining the papermaking process and paper's…

What Happens to an Economy When It's Too Hot to Work?

Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch