Collaborate Disseminate
Chickens have never had a reputation as intellectual heavyweights and scientists at Linköping University in Sweden may have found the reason why. Experimental breeding suggests that the process of domesticating the chicken 10,00 years ago caused the bi… Continue reading Domestication shrank chicken brains and made them less chicken
Radioactive isotopes found in ocean sediments show that Earth has been traveling through a cloud of fallout from an ancient supernova for the past 33,000 years. A team of researchers led by Prof. Anton Wallner, a nuclear physicist at the Australian Nat… Continue reading Ancient supernova remnants found in ocean sediments
BAE Systems has unveiled the digital techniques that are being used to design Britain’s Tempest sixth-generation fighter jet. By using a combination of computer-simulated digital twins and 3D-printed models, the goal is to simplify and speed up the dev… Continue reading BAE Systems uses a digital twin in development of Tempest fighter jet
Reaction Engines and Britain’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) have completed a concept study into the practicality of using ammonia as a jet aviation fuel. By teaming Reaction Engines’s heat exchanger technology with STFC’s advanced c… Continue reading Reaction Engines testing ammonia as carbon-free aviation fuel
A full-sized mock-up of the lander that may one day put the next US astronauts on the Moon was unveiled today in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Built by the Human Landing System (HLS) National Team consisting … Continue reading Full-scale engineering mock-up of next-gen American lunar lander unveiled
The US Army has put the call out for new homegrown uniforms that are not only fire retardant but also insect repellent, and a team led by Dr. Ramaswamy Nagarajan at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Advanced Material has answered with a… Continue reading Fire-retardant, insect-repelling fabric developed for US Army uniforms
Our view of the ancient past is set to become a bit clearer after an international team of scientists completed a major recalibration of radiocarbon dating. The seven-year global effort used almost 15,000 samples from a variety of sources to draw new, … Continue reading Radiocarbon dating curves recalibrated to boost archaeological accuracy
Scientists at the National University of Science and Technology Center for Composite Materials (NUST MISIS) in Russia are developing a new bioactive polymer-ceramic composite derived from common eggshells that can be used to treat skull injuries and ot… Continue reading Eggshell-based polymer helps implants fuse with living bone tissue
The HMS Victory, which has been in dry dock for almost a century, is once again “afloat” – but not on the water. Instead, it is being supported by a high-tech system that prevents the 255-year-old ship from sagging under its own weight by mimicking the… Continue reading HMS Victory “afloat” again on high-tech, hull-protecting supports
Lockheed Martin and the US Air Force have completed the first flight test of a tactical version of the hypersonic AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW). Strapped beneath the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, the missile was carried int… Continue reading Successful flight test for first tactical AGM-183A hypersonic missile