Новости за 25.09.2023

Sponges derived from luffa plants could act as tiny power sources for small devices, say researchers - but they may not supply enough energy to be practical

Forensic DNA phenotyping predicts people’s appearance and reveals their ancestry, finds Andy Extance, but has some significant challenges to overcome

Months after postdocs and researchers won better pay and conditions, many of the promised benefits haven’t materialised

US research funder will require collaborators to give copies of lab notebooks, raw data and more by new year

A way of destroying specific proteins on the surface of cells could lead to new treatments for a wide range of conditions, particularly cancers

Unstable nitrogen-9 is the first nucleus known to decay by spitting out five protons

Mission engineers had hoped that the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover could survive the freezing lunar night, but the sun rose on their landing site on 22 September and there have been no signals from the craft

Just a year ago, few people took seriously the idea that we could extract hydrogen from the ground as a clean energy source - but now the US Department of Energy is injecting $20 million into the concept

More than three-quarters of the planet’s land might be uninhabitable for mammals when continents coalesce in 250 million years

Precious samples from the asteroid Bennu have returned to Earth, where researchers hope to use them to learn more about the origins of the solar system

Ripples in space-time called gravitational waves are normally associated with massive objects like black holes, but we could make our own using lasers – and perhaps even use them to communicate

Concerns rise for boobies, finches, and other endemic species

After a frenetic 38 years, former U.S. infectious disease chief discusses his quieter new life, working for Trump, and what’s next for HIV and coronavirus prevention