Chemistry that works like Hermione’s magic handbag wins a 2025 chemistry Nobel
Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi developed metal-organic frameworks, structures that can collect water from air, capture CO₂ and more. Source link
2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy and Clean Up the Environment
October 7, 2025 2 min read 2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy and Clean Up the Environment Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and possibly deliver drugs to […]
Biased online images train AI bots to see women as younger
When asked to generate resumes for people with female names, such as Allison Baker or Maria Garcia, and people with male names, such as Matthew Owens or Joe Alvarez, ChatGPT made female candidates 1.6 years younger, on average, than male candidates, researchers report October 8 in Nature. In a self-fulfilling loop, the bot then ranked […]
Antarctic krill eject more food when it’s contaminated with plastic
Antarctic krill keep revealing new superpowers. Euphausia superba, the Southern Ocean’s ubiquitous krill species, sequester large amounts of carbon via their profuse poop. Now, scientists have identified another way in which the swimming crustaceans may modulate Earth’s climate: by sending their leftovers down to the bottom of the sea. Laboratory observations of krills’ filter feeding […]
First-of-Its-Kind Kidney Transplant Could Lead to More Cross-Blood Type Donations
October 7, 2025 2 min read Scientists Perform First-of-Its-Kind Transplant Using Kidney with a Converted Blood Type Recipient diagnosed with brain death received a type-O organ, which is compatible with all blood types By Rachel Fieldhouse & Nature magazine Pouches of donated blood in a hospital. ER Productions Limited/Getty Images Scientists have converted the blood […]
Discoveries that enabled quantum computers win the Nobel Prize in physics
Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She is a two-time winner of the D.C. Science Writers’ Association Newsbrief award and a winner of the Acoustical Society of America’s Science Communication Award. Source link
What the longest woolly rhino horn tells us about the beasts’ biology
The longest woolly rhino horn ever found is providing new insights into the lives of these now extinct animals. The horn — found preserved in Siberian permafrost — stretched over 1.6 meters, nearly the size of a small adult human and a full 30 centimeters longer than the previous record holder, researchers report September 12 […]
South Africa’s Coast Is Rising—And Scientists Have a New Explanation Why
October 7, 2025 4 min read South Africa’s Coast Is Rising—And Scientists Have a New Explanation Why Human water management contributes to sinking land across the globe, and it may also be responsible for an unexpected rise By Avery Schuyler Nunn edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Land rising along South Africa’s coast may be closely […]