We're getting closer to growing a brain in a lab dish pred 3 urami in 46 minutami Clumps of cells known as organoids are helping us to understand the brain, and the latest version comes equipped with realistic blood vessels to help the organoids live longer(New Scientist)
Our brains play a surprising role in recovering from a heart attack pred 22 urami in 59 minutami A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuroimmune response after a heart attack, which may pave the way for new therapies(New Scientist)
Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world pred 22 urami in 59 minutami Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He explains why he thinks these super-sponges will define the next century(New Scientist)
We have a new way to explain why we agree on the nature of reality pred 1 dnevom, 6 urami in 59 minutami An evolution-inspired framework for how quantum fuzziness gives rise to our classical world shows that even imperfect observers can eventually agree on an objective reality(New Scientist)
Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool pred 1 dnevom, 18 urami in 59 minutami Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human(New Scientist)
Menstrual pad could give women insights into their changing fertility pred 1 dnevom, 22 urami in 43 minutami A woman's fertility can be partly gauged by levels of a hormone that reflects how many eggs she has. Now, scientists have built a strip that changes colour according to levels of this hormone, which is present in period blood, into a menstrual pad(New Scientist)
The best map of dark matter has revealed never-before-seen structures pred 1 dnevom, 22 urami in 58 minutami JWST has created a map of dark matter that is twice as good as anything we have had before, and it may help unravel some of the deepest mysteries of the universe(New Scientist)