Science Breakthroughs

The Battery Network That Learns to Forget: A Reset Mechanism Makes Microgrids Cheaper and Faster

Batteries find their cheapest output faster by simply "forgetting" — a reset trick speeds up

WXV series about 'turning the page' for Ireland

Ireland's rugby coach is using the WXV series to build a new team for the 2029 World Cup.

Bolivia's tilcayo tiger cat becomes first new wildcat species in 100 years

After 100 years, scientists finally discover a brand-new wildcat species in Bolivia.

Grass and clover can provide more than animal feed

Researchers show grass and clover can replace soy feed and make carbon-capturing fuel.

Big data analysis sheds light on psoriasis's genetic code

A study of 1.1 million people cracked psoriasis's genetic code and found new drug targets.

From toothbrushes to aerospace: Graphene research advances fibers that conduct heat efficiently

Graphene fibers now reach 5.9 GPa strength — strong enough for aerospace thermal management.

Cardiac rehabilitation cuts hospital admissions and heart attack risk

Exercise rehab after a heart event cuts hospital admissions by a third and attack risk by over a

A finely tuned mess—how disorder can make networks more stable

Differences between parts can make power grids and ecosystems more stable, not weaker.

Developing new asymmetric catalytic reactions for the synthesis of complex molecules

One catalyst now controls two chemical reactions, making complex drug molecules easier to build.

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A new drug could become the first-ever approved treatment for the rare brain disease MOGAD.

Ubiquitin marks abnormal glycogen for destruction to protect the brain, study finds

Scientists found a protein that tags bad sugar in brain cells so the body can recycle it and stop

Scaling up the detection of genome-edited rice lines

A new tool called RiSpy can pick out genome-edited rice lines that public databases miss.

Chemists overturn 40-year assumption about a key class of superconductors

Superconductors assumed uniform for 40 years are actually patchworks of hidden crystal structures.

New krypton-88 data narrow a key gap in stellar strontium models

A first-ever experiment reveals how stars make strontium, solving a mystery in stellar models.

Laser shocks turn plastic into ultra-small, high-purity nanodiamonds

Laser blasts squeeze plain plastic into ultra-small, high-purity diamonds — cleaner than explosions.

A gut's complex architecture, recreated on a microscope slide–sized chip

Scientists rebuilt the gut's complex architecture on a chip no bigger than a microscope slide.

Electron and photon beams drive same gold-forming reaction toward different nanoscale structures

The same chemical reaction makes different gold shapes depending on whether it's watched with

Microfluidic device simulates human tissue and offers an alternative to animal testing

Brazilian lab builds a tiny chip that grows 3D human-like cells, cutting the need for animal

New bioinformatics tools help identify pathogenic variants in the genome

New AI tools spot tricky genome changes that explain many diseases, boosting the 30-40% diagnosis

A new rulebook for designing stable dilute alloy catalysts

A tiny 1% of one metal in another could make fuel and plastic greener — scientists just cracked how