When AI starts shopping for you, fashion may be entering a new era of pricing

Fashion has always been a bit different to other industries. Consumers do not just buy because they need something. They buy ...

A cheaper way to fight 'forever chemicals': How pH-controlled traps could clean drinking water

Forever chemicals don't break down and don't disappear, but Florida International University scientists have developed a safer, cheaper, and reusable solution that could remove these chemicals. FIU ...

A light-controlled 'muscle' could give synthetic cells a new way to move

Engineers interested in creating artificial cells to deliver drugs to unhealthy parts of the body face a key challenge: for a ...

Archaeologists have discovered 12,000‑year‑old dice. Here's what they reveal about the history of play

Humans have always been playful. But for much of our history, play has left little trace. Unlike tools or bones, games rarely ...

Wafer-scale 2D magnetic films emerge thanks to a new low-defect growth technique

In a major advance, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have devised a method to grow high-quality 2D ...

Hollow-sphere catalyst enables greener production of 99% pure propane at room temperature

The world's appetite for propene (propylene) is growing faster than the chemical industry can keep up. This petrochemical ...

'Protected' seagrass meadows aren't necessarily healthy, because pollution doesn't stop at the shoreline

I spent last summer wading through seagrass meadows across Northern Ireland, from the sheltered waters of Strangford Lough to ...

Theoretical models of supernova chemistry overhauled after X-ray data from Perseus Cluster reveal key discrepancies

The Perseus Cluster is a massive galaxy cluster located in the constellation Perseus. It is one of the largest structures in ...

Moroccan dinosaur's fearsome tail spikes evolved much earlier than we thought—new discovery

In the heart of the Middle Atlas Mountains in central Morocco, a global team of paleontologists and geologists has discovered ...

Why anatomy's naughtiest mnemonics work so well

I'm referring to the bones of the wrist, of course. The phrase is a classic mnemonic used to remember the eight carpal (wrist ...

Atlantic current shows two-decade decline across four deep-ocean monitoring sites

A paper published in the journal Science Advances is adding to the growing body of research showing that the Atlantic ...

How tiny voids could make fusion targets more stable under powerful shockwaves

Picture two materials sandwiched together. The boundary between them may appear flat, but, in reality, it is full of tiny ...