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The biological world is awash in chemical signals. Ants lead their nest mates to food with winding trails of pheromones, plants exude aerosols to warn their neighbors of herbivores, and everything you experience as “smell” is a molecule latching onto…
Researchers developed a method to detect small amounts of certain chemicals by adding nanodiamonds to microdroplets. Credit: Ajoy Lab/UC Berkeley Combine a garden-variety green laser, microwaves with roughly the energy of your wi-fi, and some diamond dust in drops of…
When Robin McCoy was 50, she was diagnosed with the disease that had taken her mother’s sight. McCoy had inherited a genetic mutation that causes retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a condition in which the retina’s light-sensing cells — its rods and…
We all know Microsoft is gearing up to phase out Windows 10. It’s sad, but it’s also old news. Upgrading your OS is kind of like paying registration for your car: annoying but consistent. No, the real reason to choose…
Daniel Blumenthal. Credit: Matt Perko, UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based systems, opening new possibilities for sensing, precision timekeeping, quantum computing and fundamental…
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 05 March 2025 Potato genomes that contain the complete sequences from both sets of chromosomes uncover the deleterious variations previously hidden in genomes disclosed for only one set of chromosomes. An ideal set of genes was designed computationally…
A trio of Canadians are on track to become the country’s first residents to have their eyesight restored thanks in part to their teeth. Osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis, more commonly known as “tooth-in-eye” surgery, involves harvesting the body’s strongest natural substance to…
Commuters drive through heavy smog in New Delhi on November 2017. The United States on Tuesday ended pollution tracking by its embassies that had been a vital source of data especially in Beijing, as President Donald Trump slashes overseas and…
A company that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to ‘de-extinct’ woolly mammoths and other animals has claimed a breakthrough in its quest: the creation of hairier mice. The gene-edited ‘woolly mice’ harbour a mix of…
Popular Science started writing about technology more than 150 years ago. There was no such thing as “gadget writing” when we published our first issue in 1872, but if there was, our mission to demystify the world of innovation for everyday…
