A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash. The single flash extended 477.2 miles across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in April 2020, the World Meteorological Organization…
Continue ReadingBees like to pollinate this sun-loving flower
Plant a field of sunflowers, and watch them grow. All summer you will see something amazing. In the morning, all the sunflowers will face east in the direction of the rising sun. As the sun moves, so will the sunflower…
Continue ReadingDOE Invests $13.4 Million to Reduce Plastic Industry Emission and Cut Waste
The Department of Energy is investing $13.4 million in seven research and development projects that will explore next generation plastics technologies. The funding will support programs that aim to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions that are associated with single-use…
Continue ReadingNew Year 2022 Twins have different birthday
Two fraternal twins in California were born just 15 minutes apart, yet their birthdays fall on different days, in different months and years. Alfredo Trujillo was born on December 31, 2021, at 11:45 p.m., the Natividad Medical Center announced Sunday. His twin…
Continue ReadingJames Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope, decades in the making, is designed to travel nearly 1 million miles to reach a very particular spot to take up orbit. For comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope is about 340 miles from Earth. Shatner…
Continue ReadingBezos’ Blue Origin sends Strahan, five others to space
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sent another crew to space on Saturday (12/11/21), the company’s third human spaceflight and the first with a full contingent of six people. The launch capped a historic year for space exploration and marked the 13th…
Continue ReadingRare Einstein manuscript sold for over $13M in auction
Albert Einstein typically threw out drafts of his paradigm-shifting work. But thanks to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist’s friend and collaborator, a rare, working manuscript “almost miraculously” survived to the present – and it sold for a hammer price of nearly…
Continue ReadingPig to Human Transplants
Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Surgeons attached the pig kidney to a pair…
Continue ReadingBioengineering to Enable Muscle-Powered Electromechanical Therapies
Researchers at the National Institute of Health’s (NIH’s) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have developed materials that create electrical pulses when compressed by muscles in the body. “Piezoelectric materials such as ceramics and crystals have a special…
Continue ReadingSharing a rare bond with a sea creature
A unique story of connection,” is how South African filmmaker and naturalist Craig Foster refers to his underwater adventures with a wild common octopus documented in the film “My Octopus Teacher.” The Netflix film shows the bond that develops between…
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