FDA authorizes Abbott's wearable to monitor ketone and glucose in diabetes patients
Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it authorized Abbott Laboratories' glucose monitor, making it the first device that continuously monitors both...
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Deep Sea Scientists Hunting a Shipwreck Accidentally Stumbled Across The Ocean's Own Backrooms
Is there no corner of this Earth our junk does not reach?
Rare Bird of Prey Nests Again in Secret U.K. Location After Years with No Successful Breeding
The Montagu’s Harrier had shown no evidence of successful breeding in the U.K. between 2020 and 2024
Brain cells and chemical signals could hold the missing piece of memory
Brain cells and chemical signals could hold the missing piece of memory that today's silicon computers cannot reproduce
Elon Musk's space company to build new rocket launching site in Louisiana
Elon Musk's space company plans to spend $100 billion to build a massive new spaceport in Louisiana to launch rockets, state officials and the company announ...
The bubbling surface of doomed supergiant star Betelgeuse has been revealed like never before
Betelgeuse may be a well-known and often-studied stellar object, but that doesn't mean astronomers aren't capable of capturing this doomed star in a complete...
Over 200 million migratory birds are hitting the sky this week
The central U.S. should be a particular hot spot for birds heading south.
How the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Liquefies Living Coral
When a crown-of-thorns starfish settles onto a coral reef, it turns its own stomach inside out and gets to work dissolving living coral from the inside. Unde...
Startups are selling states on cloud seeding.
States struggling with dwindling water resources as a result of climate change are turning to a new generation of companies claiming they can induce rain or snowfall. Rainmaker, a cloud seeding company based in El Segundo, California, says it has helped generate at least 143 million gallons of water for Oregon and Utah. [Link: As the West Dries Up, More Companies Are Promising They Can Make It Rain | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/climate/cloud-seeding-west-drought-rain.html | nytimes.com]
The U.S. just recorded its first two deaths from measles for 2026
Two people who were not vaccinated against measles died of the disease in Pennsylvania, public health officials said on Tuesday—these are the first measles f...
Avulux lands FDA de novo classification for light-sensitive migraine lenses
Avulux’s lens technology uses a optical filters to block up to 97% of blue, amber, and red light while letting soothing green light through.
What is CTE, and how many former NFL players have been diagnosed with it?
So far, the degenerative brain disease has only been diagnosed after a person's death.
Vietnam Revises EPR Policy to Improve Circularity
The Vietnam Department of Environment’s draft policy calls for strengthening the role of private sector stakeholders in implementing EPR practices.
Elon Musk's message to Cursor's 1,000-plus engineers after the $60 billion takeover: We are behind, and the company beating us is...
Tech News News: Elon Musk waited until the ink was dry to tell Cursor what he actually wanted from it. On the day SpaceX confirmed it had completed its $60 billion ac.
For 30 years, the âKerry cowâ bones were seen as proof of early farming in Ireland; scientists now say they belonged to a bear and wild boar
Science News: For more than three decades, a collection of animal bones from Irelandâs Ferriterâs Cove was considered some of the earliest evidence that farming had.
Scientists turned plastic bottles and corn waste into protein-rich cookies; the food could help tackle hunger problem and also feed space crews
Science News: Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU Carbondale) are working on a technology that turns plastic waste from a water bottle into .
In 2020, 10-year-old Murphy Widdowson collected a spider on a remote Australian island that experts could not identify; scientists later declared it a new species and named it Artoriopsis murphyi after him
Science News: For most kids, finding a spider would be a scream, and then a quick retreat. But for Murphy Widdowson, it was a scientific discovery. What began as a.