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US-UK TEAM DEVELOPS COCKTAIL OF PLASTIC-EATING ENZYMES
The scientists who re-engineered the plastic-eating enzyme PETase have now created an enzyme 'cocktail' which can digest plastic up to...

By The Financial District
Oct 3, 20202 min read


JAPANESE TEAM FINDS WAY TO CUT CO2 EMISSIONS USING METAL IONS
Artificial photosynthesis is a chemical process that mimics the natural process of photosynthesis to convert sunlight, water, and carbon...

By The Financial District
Oct 3, 20201 min read


DOLL PLAY DELIVERS POSITIVE IMPACT
Barbie, and a team of neuroscientists from Cardiff University, have announced findings of a new study exploring the positive impact doll...

By The Financial District
Oct 2, 20203 min read


U.S., ISRAEL DEPLOYING ADVANCED DRONE SYSTEM
Following a joint R&D program led by the Israel Ministry of Defense, with leading drone developer, XTEND, and the U.S. Department of...

By The Financial District
Oct 1, 20201 min read


QUANTUM MECHANICS: THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
In a press conference today at the University of Chicago, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled a report that lays out a blueprint...

By The Financial District
Oct 1, 20203 min read


FIRM CREATES FACE SHIELD THAT WORKS WHILE YOU DRINK, EAT RAMEN
A company in the eastern Japan prefecture of Gunma has designed a face shield that allows people to drink or even eat ramen without...

By The Financial District
Oct 1, 20201 min read


JAPAN EYES FUEL DERIVED FROM MOON WATER FUEL FOR EXPLORATION
Japan's space agency said Monday it aims to engage from around the mid-2030s in lunar exploration using hydrogen generated by water...

By The Financial District
Sep 29, 20202 min read


LEADERS TO UN: IF COVID DOESN’T KILL US, CLIMATE CHANGE WILL
In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning: If COVID-19...

By The Financial District
Sep 28, 20202 min read


AUSTRALIAN STUDENT PROVES PARADOX-FREE TIME TRAVEL POSSIBLE
In a new peer-reviewed paper, a senior honors undergraduate says he has mathematically proven the physical feasibility of a specific kind...

By The Financial District
Sep 28, 20202 min read


TRAINED DOGS SCORE 100% IN DETECTING COVID VIRUS IN HELSINKI AIRPORT
Four specially trained dogs, who can detect the COVID-19 virus faster than laboratory tests, have gone on duty at Finland’s biggest...

By The Financial District
Sep 27, 20201 min read


SINGLE-CELLED MARINE PROTISTS FOUND TO DEVOUR VIRUSES
Teeny, single-cell creatures floating in the ocean may be the first organisms ever confirmed to eat viruses.

By The Financial District
Sep 26, 20202 min read


EARTH’S NEW MINI-MOON MIGHT BE A ROCKET LAUNCHED IN THE 1960s
Earth is getting a small new moon, but it might have been made by people, Rafi Letzter wrote for LiveScience.Â

By The Financial District
Sep 26, 20202 min read


SCIENTISTS DISCOVER GENETIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC OF SOME CASES OF SEVERE COVID-19
New findings by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators help explain why some people with COVID-19...

By The Financial District
Sep 26, 20202 min read


BUS-SIZED ASTEROID ZOOMING BY EARTH, NASA CONFIRMS
An asteroid the size of a school bus is headed our way, but NASA says the space rock will zoom safely past Earth on Thursday...

By The Financial District
Sep 25, 20201 min read


EXPERTS TARGET POCKET IN SPIKE PROTEIN TO WEAKEN COVID-19 VIRUS
The spike protein on the novel coronavirus that helps it break into healthy cells has a tiny "pocket" that could make it vulnerable to...

By The Financial District
Sep 25, 20201 min read


COKE HAS LARGEST PLASTIC FOOTPRINT ON EARTH WITH 2.3M METRIC TONS ANNUALLY
A new report published by the Changing Markets Foundation has shed light on the world's worst companies for plastic pollution, along with...

By The Financial District
Sep 23, 20201 min read


BRAZIL STUDY SUGGESTS DENGUE MAY PROVIDE IMMUNITY VS COVID-19
A new study that analyzed the coronavirus outbreak in Brazil has found a link between the spread of the virus and past outbreaks of...

By The Financial District
Sep 23, 20202 min read


JAPANESE SCIENTISTS DEVELOP SALT-RESISTANT RICE VARIETY
A Japan-based team of biological scientists has developed a new rice variety through genetic improvement in an attempt to increase crop...

By The Financial District
Sep 23, 20202 min read


FBI BROADENS PARTNERSHIPS TO COMBAT CYBERATTACKS
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray has announced the bureau’s new strategy for countering cyber threats in...

By The Financial District
Sep 21, 20202 min read


EMPOWERING PASSENGERS TO HELP CREATE AIRPORTS OF THE FUTURE
Airports and their eco-systems are facing various levels of transformation – smart(er) technology, digital transformation, climate change...

By The Financial District
Sep 20, 20203 min read


ONE OF THE LARGEST SCHOOLS IN EUROPE IS CHANGING THE WAY INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS VIEW EDUCATION
One of the largest schools in the youngest country in Europe is changing the way instructors and students view education in XR during the...

By The Financial District
Sep 20, 20202 min read


COVID-19 SALIVA TEST UP
A new coronavirus test could change everything on college campuses and even inside your own home...

By The Financial District
Sep 20, 20201 min read


MODERNA VACCINE DETAILS PROTOCOL
The biotech company Moderna released a 135-page document on Thursday that details how it is conducting the late-stage trial of its...

By The Financial District
Sep 19, 20202 min read


JAPAN PUSHES DIGITIZATION
New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Thursday instructed digital transformation minister TakuyaHirai to speed up preparations to...

By The Financial District
Sep 19, 20201 min read
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