Surgeons Leonardo Riella and Tatsuo Kawai with patient Tim Andrews after Andrews’ xenotransplant in 2025. A genetically engineered pig kidney kept a 66-year-old man off dialysis for a record 271 days before he successfully received a donor organ, marking a major advancement towards using animal organs to “bridge” the widening gap between organ demand and…
Alexander Du, a 17-year-old student from Sewickley, Pennsylvania, has been named a 2026 Presidential AI Challenge National Champion for inventing IRIS, an AI-powered wearable designed to help blind and visually impaired people navigate their surroundings. The teen built the $170 system after watching his grandmother struggle to navigate the world differently after losing her sight….
A medieval castle believed to have disappeared around 150 years ago has turned out to be hiding in plain sight inside a university building in Dublin, with researchers finding that its ancient walls and courtyard survived beneath the later structure.The discovery concerns Roebuck Castle on the Belfield campus of University College Dublin (UCD). The Norman…
HYDERABAD: To expand robotic surgeries across govt hospitals, the health department is planning to make three to six months of training in robotic procedures mandatory for postgraduate (PG) medical students.The move is aimed at creating a large pool of uniformly trained surgeons so that robotic surgery is not limited to leading institutions in Hyderabad and…
Canada has recently confirmed the first detection of spotted lanternfly in the country. On September 15, 2026, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed the first detection of SLF in Canada in Windsor, Ontario. Movement restrictions have been placed to prevent the movement of regulated materials, including potentially infested plant materials. Moreover, surrounding areas are…
A 16-year-old student from Massachusetts has turned an everyday item into an award-winning recycling project. Benjamin Davis, a junior at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, developed a desktop machine that processes 3D-printed waste and other plastics into reusable filament for 3D printers. His work earned him the $75,000 Regeneron Young Scientist Award at the…
Humanity has achieved extraordinary things, from exploring distant planets to developing technologies that have transformed everyday life. Yet, despite these accomplishments, our place in the universe remains remarkably small. British physicist Stephen Hawking often encouraged people to look beyond their immediate surroundings and consider the vastness of the cosmos. His thought-provoking words, “We are just…
Researchers have found that waste eggshells can be processed into a fine powder and used to replace part of the cement in mortar without reducing its compressive strength. A study tested calcined eggshell powder at replacement levels ranging from 2.5% to 12.5%. The strongest result came at 10%, where the mortar reached a compressive strength…
Coastal waters that feed billions of people with food, jobs and recreation are being pushed past their limits by a surge of human-made nitrogen. A new studytitled ‘Coastal Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Silicon Sources: Integrating Land, Sea, and Human Inputs’ led by Washington State University estimates that in about one in four of the planet’s coastal…
Egg-laying Skink (Oligosoma suteri) in New Zealand. Image Credit: Wikipedia A conservation effort in New Zealand took a surprising turn when 30 egg-laying skinks were moved from Green Island to Korapuki Island in 1992. The group consisted of 10 males and 20 gravid females (already carrying eggs). Years later, researchers compared the skinks on both…
Planck in 1918, the year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum theory (Image: B Lagrelius & Westphal/ The American Institute of Physics ) Long before quantum mechanics became a household term, Max Planck was already thinking carefully about what it actually means to do science. In this quote,…
Representative Image of a rocket carrying mycelium fungi launching into space on a mission to the International Space Station (AI Generated Image) In August 2024, researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia sent 36 small vials containing fungi into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bound for the International Space Station. The vials…
