A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell has found that chicken eggshell microparticles inserted into a hydrogel matrix can be used to strengthen bone grown in a lab for use in bone grafts and other procedures. Schematic for the fabrication of the eggshell microparticle-reinforced hydrogels and cell …

Using a technique called cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a team of scientists from the United States and Canada has captured atomic-level, 3D images of the Cas9 enzyme before and after cutting the DNA. The images reveal new information about how the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing works, which may help researchers develop versions …

  Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe has just made history — again. The spacecraft gathered samples from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu earlier this year, and it bombed the asteroid a few months later. Now, the probe has taken another trip to the surface to scoop up pristine material that used …

  ZIP files have been a handy way to compress information for easier transport and storage for decades. But the realities of 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy longevity made relying on multi-disk zip archives a gamble when it came to long-term data preservation. For years, we’ve known it was possible to …

  AMD’s Ryzen 7 3000 family dropped earlier this week, delivering a body blow to Intel’s entire high-end product stack. The Ryzen 9 3900X destroys the Core i9-9900K’s performance at $500, while the $329 Ryzen 7 3700X is narrowly faster than the 9900K in most workloads, at 66 percent the …

  At Semicon West 2019, a panel of industry experts kicked off a debate on whether Moore’s Law — the great prediction given to us by Gordon Moore, which declared that the number of components per integrated circuit would regularly double over a predictable period of time (originally 12 months, …

  Adata’s XPG SX6000 Pro SSDs were designed to offer exceptional performance at an exceedingly low price point. As these SSDs are built as budget-oriented products, they aren’t able to compete with the fastest NVMe SSDs on the market in terms of performance. But their substantially lower price may make …

  Samsung has been making tablets almost as long as Apple, but while the iPad has maintained its popularity, Android-based slates have declined. Google might be giving up on making tablets, but Samsung is keeping at it with a rumored high-end Galaxy Tab S6. This device will allegedly be the …

According to new research, gorillas have complex social structures, from lifetime bonds forged between distant relations, to social tiers with striking parallels to traditional human societies. The results, published in the July 3 issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, indicate that the hierarchical social organization observed in …

In a study published online this week in the journal eLife, researchers from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth examined how environmental stressors put on fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) can influence the phenotypes of their offspring. A fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Image credit: Sanjay Acharya / CC BY-SA 4.0. …