Helsinki, Finland — In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists in Finland have found gold nanoparticles inside the needles of Norway spruce trees, suggesting the possible presence of large underground gold deposits beneath the forest floor. The study, published on August 28 in the journal Environmental Microbiome, revealed that bacteria living inside the trees play a crucial … Read more
China has switched on the world’s largest and most sensitive neutrino observatory—an enormous underground laboratory built to capture and analyze the universe’s most elusive “ghost particles.” The state-of-the-art spherical detector, constructed with a giant acrylic dome and filled with 20,000 tonnes of liquid scintillator, is already logging around 50 subatomic events each day. A project … Read more
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have unveiled a groundbreaking invention: the world’s “smallest on-chip motor,” small enough to fit inside a single strand of human hair. This revolutionary micromotor uses light-powered gears, solving a decades-old challenge in micromachine development. Gears are essential in countless technologies—from clocks and cars to robots and wind turbines. For … Read more