Science

If it still holds that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a virus that kills bacteria might be a good place to start developing medicines. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) creating “superbugs” is the largest threat to individual health on Earth. As many as 60% of the strains of common…

The Biden Administration is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to close abandoned oil and gas wells across the country, but what if they could solve the problem of renewable energy storage instead? 3,000 feet below the Midwestern state in a geological structure of porous sandstone, researchers from the University of…

The earliest evidence of human ancestors using tools up to three million years ago has been unearthed in Kenya. They were employing some of the oldest stone implements ever found to cut up hippo meat and pound plant material on the shores of Lake Victoria, say scientists. The team explained that…

An international cryptology team accidentally discovered a series of coded letters written by Mary Queen of Scots and deciphered them. The contents of those letters that have so far been decoded reveal the thoughts, plots, and emotions penned by Mary while she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth I, and were believed…

The threat of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections has been growing across human civilization for years, but a new look at a plant pathogen discovered years ago reveals a potential new method of combating it—an antibacterial agent that works like nothing else deployed in medicine. Called albicidin, it belongs to a pathogen that…

Researchers in Australia, an island nation, have successfully split seawater to produce green hydrogen without pre-treatment. An international chemical engineering team, led by the University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao and Associate Professor Yao Zheng, were motivated by the fact that the only thing emitted by hydrogen fuel is water. “We…