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Nanofiber Yarn Makes For Stretchy, Protective Artificial Tissue

The human body is held together by an intricate cable system of tendons and muscles, engineered by nature to be tough and highly stretchable. An injury to any of these tissues, particularly in a major joint like the shoulder or knee, can require surgical repairs and weeks of limited mobility to fully heal.

Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable…

New Jersey Man Dies from ‘Brain-Eating’ Amoeba

A New Jersey man died after contracting a “brain-eating” amoeba called Naegleria fowleri, according to news reports.

Though it’s unclear exactly how the man, 29-year-old Fabrizio Stabile, got the amoeba, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently investigating BSR Cable Park’s Surf Resort in Waco, Texas, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported on Sept. 28.

Stabile had used the…

Do you know about Drought?

Extreme weather such as heat waves, heavy downpours and droughts are expected to accompanying climate change. Recent research indicates this has begun happening.

Droughts occur in nearly all types of climate. Of all the weather-related phenomena that can cause severe economic impacts in the United States, droughts come in second only to hurricanes, according to the National Climatic Data…

Grinning-Skull Asteroid Set to Whiz by Earth

The “Halloween Asteroid” 2015 TB145, shown here in an artist’s illustration, is expected to whiz by Earth a little later than usual, swinging by on Nov. 11, 2018.

Better late to the Halloween party than never: An asteroid shaped like a grinning skull is set to pass by Earth on Nov. 11.

Asteroid 2015 TB145 was first discovered in 2015, when it zipped within 301,986 miles (486,000…

Pluto Should Be a Planet and So Should Earth’s Moon, New Study Claims

Artist’s impression of Pluto and Charon as seen from one of Pluto’s other moons.

Sing along if you know the words: When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that’s a planet!

That’s what ancient Greek stargazers thought, anyway. And according to a team of astronomers writing in the journal Icarus, maybe it’s time we started thinking of Earth’s trusty satellite — plus demoted dwarf…

Scientists Observe Relationship Between Earth’s Surface Temperature and Its Outgoing Heat

Just as an oven gives off more heat to the surrounding kitchen as its internal temperature rises, the Earth sheds more heat into space as its surface warms up. Since the 1950s, scientists have observed a surprisingly straightforward, linear relationship between the Earth’s surface temperature and its outgoing heat.

But the Earth is an incredibly messy system, with many complicated, interacting…

Strange Blobs Beneath Earth Could Be Remnants of an Ancient Magma Ocean

Mysterious blobs deep in the Earth’s mantle could be minerals that precipitated out of an ancient magma ocean that formed in the collision that also created the moon.

These blobs, called ultralow velocity zones, are found very deep in the mantle, close to the Earth’s core. They are known only because when seismic waves from earthquakes travel through them, the waves slow dramatically. This…