Sound Can Actually Create Light in a Phenomenon Called Sonoluminescence
When a tiny gas bubble in liquid is hit with high-frequency sound, it implodes and emits a flash of light hotter than th…
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Casgevy Became the First CRISPR Gene-Editing Cure Approved by the FDA in 2023
On December 8, 2023, the FDA approved Casgevy, the first therapy in human history to use CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing as a c…
Slime Mold With No Brain Solves Mazes and Redesigns Tokyo's Rail Network
A single-celled organism with no neurons, no brain, and no nervous system repeatedly solves shortest-path problems throu…
Quantum Entanglement Allows Particles to "Communicate" Instantly Across Any Distance
Two entangled particles, separated by light-years, share a connection so deep that measuring one instantaneously determi…
A New Study Suggests the Universe May Have No Beginning at All
A theory combining loop quantum cosmology and string theory suggests the Big Bang may not have been a beginning, but a t…
Mitochondria Were Once Free-Living Bacteria — and Some Still Live Inside Your Cells
Every cell in your body contains structures that, roughly 1.5 billion years ago, were free-living bacteria. They were sw…
Scientists Discovered Bacteria That Eat Electrons Directly From Metal
Some bacteria skip food entirely — they consume raw electricity by pulling electrons directly from solid surfaces like…
Your Body Contains Enough DNA to Stretch from Earth to Pluto 17 Times
Inside every one of your roughly 37 trillion cells lies about 2 meters of tightly coiled DNA. Stretched end to end, the …
Tardigrades Survived Exposure to the Vacuum of Space and Cosmic Radiation
In 2007, scientists exposed tardigrades to the harsh vacuum of space for 10 days. Most survived — and many even reprod…
A Single Teaspoon of Neutron Star Would Weigh One Billion Tons on Earth
Neutron stars are the densest objects in the universe outside black holes. A teaspoon of their material would outweigh M…
Scientists Grew a Miniature Human Heart That Actually Beats in a Dish
Researchers have grown lentil-sized "heart organoids" from stem cells that contract rhythmically just like a real heart …
The Human Brain Can Store 2.5 Petabytes — More Than All Books Ever Written
New research on synaptic geometry suggests the human brain can hold the equivalent of 2.5 million gigabytes of informati…