Radhika Saran, Cleo Pontone and Sophia DeVito, three students at Harvard University, have built Rumble Rims, a low-cost infrared eye-tracking headset that helps schools screen for possible concussions on the sideline in about 60 seconds. The system is designed to give coaches more objective information during sideline checks. The project has already earned the team…
In 1975, Nasa sent an unusual piece of technology into orbit: a pocket-sized Hewlett-Packard HP-65 programmable calculator carried aboard the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. It was not the spacecraft’s main computer, but a backup device programmed with rendezvous and guidance equations in case the Apollo Guidance Computer failed. The calculator travelled during a landmark mission that…
From portraying the ocean superhero Aquaman to advocating for marine conservation, Jason Momoa has made ocean protection a central part of his public work. The actor and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Advocate for Life Below Water has warned about the growing threats facing coral reefs, which support marine biodiversity, coastal communities and cultural traditions….
Conservationists in Wisconsin have reached an important milestone in Great Lakes wildlife restoration after a pair of piping plovers was found nesting on Wisconsin Point in Superior. The discovery ends a 49-year absence of nesting piping plovers at the site. According to an official announcement from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the endangered…
Representative Image (AI-generated) What if the best way to understand a 2,000-year-old burned scroll is to make one yourself and set it on fire? Scientists did just that to investigate how writing might be recovered from carbonised papyrus scrolls buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers created…
The biggest mystery is how many tilcayo cats are actually living in the wild. Researchers currently cannot determine the species’ full range, partly because small tiger cats are notoriously difficult to identify through camera-trap surveys. A tiny wild cat living quietly in the Bolivian Andes has turned out to be something scientists have been searching…
A group of students in Taiwan has found a way to give discarded shellfish waste a second life beneath the waves. Their project, named Reefvive, takes oyster shells and coral gravel that would otherwise be thrown away and turns them into 3D-printed bases for growing coral. According to the James Dyson Award, the structures have…
A rare tree daisy from Chile’s Robinson Crusoe Island is receiving a new lifeline after two seedlings arrived at Logan Botanic Garden in south-west Scotland. Dendroseris neriifolia has been reduced to one known wild tree, which grows on a steep cliff and is supported by ropes to prevent it from falling. Conservationists in Chile and…
For America, bison have always been more than just an ordinary animal. The largest land mammal in North America, the massive, shaggy beast has been extremely important to the native cultures. Since 2016, it has also been crowned as America’s national mammal and is an apt representative of the country’s natural history.Bison, also referred to…
Image: European Space Agency When a star strays too close to a supermassive black hole, gravity can tear the star apart in what astronomers call a tidal disruption event. Some of the debris gets swallowed, while the rest can be blasted back out in powerful jets, sometimes months or years after the star is destroyed….