Articles by

Ritsuko Kawai

The World’s Oceans Are Hurtling Toward a Breaking Point

For life on Earth, the oceans are essential. Not only do they supply us with food and...

Researchers Create 3D-Printed Artificial Skin That Allows Blood Circulation

When treating severe burns and trauma, skin regeneration can be a matter of life or death. Extensive...

Hungry Worms Could Help Solve Plastic Pollution

Plastics that support modern life are inexpensive, strong, and versatile, but are difficult to dispose of and...

NASA’s Largest Satellite Antenna Ever Has Just Unfurled in Space

A Flowerlike satellite has “bloomed” in outer space, unfolding to reveal the largest radar antenna reflector ever...

A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than...

Scientists Have Just Discovered a New Type of Electricity-Conducting Bacteria

A new species of bacteria that functions like electrical wiring has recently been discovered on a brackish...

Lasers Are Making It Easier to Find Buried Land Mines

scientists in the US have developed a technology that can detect land mines from far away and...

Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize for the First Time

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated...