Safi employees at work. Courtesy of Safi Biotherapeutics Last month, the American Red Cross declared an emergency blood shortage after its national supply fell by more than 25% in July. One startup’s solution: Lab-grown blood. Shortages can be dire for patients since doctors have to make tough decisions about who needs blood transfusions the most. … Read more
Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Central Science (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.4c01010 Water polluted with heavy metals can pose a threat when consumed by humans and aquatic life. Sugar-derived polymers from plants remove these metals but often require other substances to adjust their stability or solubility in water. Now, researchers report a sugar-like polymer that traps heavy metals … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It’d be reasonable to think Washington’s space economy has a lot riding on Boeing’s Starliner, the spacecraft that left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station and headed back to Earth with an empty cabin Friday. The astronauts were scheduled to return on Starliner in June after a week on … Read more
Workers stock shelves at an Amazon Fresh grocery store in Seattle, Washington, US, on Thursday, May 2, 2024. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images On a humid afternoon in August, a few hundred shoppers lined up outside an Amazon Fresh supermarket in a Philadelphia suburb, eagerly awaiting the store’s grand opening. A person in … Read more
Wildfires around Los Angeles have wreathed the city in choking smoke. Out-of-control wildfires surrounding Los Angeles continued to grow Tuesday, forcing families to evacuate and blanketing the sky with choking smoke. Three separate blazes have erupted around the United States’ second-biggest city, fueled by a punishing heat wave and fanned by gusting winds. Thousands of … Read more
Shoppers on Wicklow Street in Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A landmark ruling from the European Union’s top court means Ireland will receive 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in unpaid taxes from Apple — a windfall that Dublin had spent several years fighting to avoid. It leaves … Read more
Kai-Fu Lee, chairman and chief executive officer of Sinovation Ventures, speaks during the HICOOL Global Entrepreneur Summit on September 11, 2021 in Beijing, China. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese artificial intelligence models may be at least half a year behind those developed in the U.S., but Chinese … Read more
A bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) swims in a tank at right, with its mirror image at left. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University An Osaka Metropolitan University-led team has demonstrated that bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) check their body size in a mirror before choosing whether to attack fish that are slightly larger or smaller than … Read more
A model of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. The twin Voyagers have been flying since 1977 and are exploring the outer regions of our solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Engineers working on NASA’s Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft’s thrusters, which keep the distant explorer pointed at Earth so that it can receive … Read more
In a new atlas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor Jim Best used the latest research and visually intensive storytelling to highlight the history, culture, change and restoration efforts of the world’s river systems. Credit: Michelle Hassel The word “atlas,” may conjure images of giant books chock full of maps and a dizzying array of facts … Read more
