Science News: 10 August 2025

Ecology · Energy · Future · Health · Healthcare · Innovation · medicine · Science · Technology

The Enzyme Revolution: How Engineering Nature’s Catalysts is Transforming Medicine, Food & the Planet

The global market for industrial enzymes was about $9 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $13.8 billion by 2027. Site-directed mutagenesis, invented in the 1970s by Michael Smith, enables precise single-amino-acid changes in enzymes and earned him the 1993 Nobel

August 14, 2025

Biotechnology · Environment · Health · Healthcare · medicine · Science · Sustainability · Technology

In the U.S., over 100,000 people are on organ transplant waiting lists, and nearly 20 die each day awaiting a transplant. In late 2022, researchers in the United Kingdom transfused lab-grown red blood cells into human volunteers, the world’s first trial of

August 13, 2025

Future · Neuroscience · Science

Uploading Minds: The Race for Whole Brain Emulation (WBE) and Its Profound Implications

A human brain contains about 86 billion neurons and roughly 100 trillion synapses. In 2015, the Blue Brain Project simulated 30,000 rat cortical neurons with about 37 million synapses on an IBM supercomputer. The connectome of the nematode C. elegans was completed

August 12, 2025

Biotechnology · Gene Editing · genetics · Health · Healthcare · Innovation · medicine · Science

DNA Makeover: How Gene Editing Therapies Are Curing the “Incurable”

CRISPR-Cas9, discovered in 2012, lets scientists target a DNA sequence and cut it to remove, add, or alter genes. In late 2022, doctors in London used base editing to modify donated immune cells in a teenager with resistant leukemia, marking the first

August 12, 2025

Cybersecurity · Data Security · Hardware · News · Physics · Quantum Computing · Science · Technology Trends

Unhackable Codes: How Quantum Key Distribution is Reinventing Secure Communication

BB84, the first QKD protocol, was proposed in 1984 by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard and uses four polarization states across two bases. Ekert’s E91 protocol (1991), proposed by Artur Ekert, uses entangled photon pairs and Bell inequality for security and enables

August 12, 2025

Atomic energy · Clean Energy · Energy · Nuclear power · Nuclear power reactor · Physics · Renewable Energy · Science · Technology

Small Modular Reactors: Tiny Nukes, Big Revolution in Clean Energy

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are defined as reactors producing up to 300 MWe and designed for factory fabrication and modular on-site assembly. NuScale Power’s 77 MWe integral PWR became the first SMR design certified by the U.S. NRC in 2020, with a

August 11, 2025

AI · AI Trends · Ecology · Forecasts · Future Forecasts · Media · satellites · Science · Technology

Inside the Weather Data Revolution: How AI, Satellites and Supercomputers Are Transforming Forecasts in 2025

In 2024 the globe experienced the hottest year on record, likely exceeding +1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to the WMO in March 2025. In 2025 the ECMWF deployed the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) operating in an ensemble of 51 variations, improving

August 10, 2025

Biotechnology · Future · Health · Healthcare · Innovations · medicine · Science

Lab Rats No More: How Organ-on-a-Chip Technology is Revolutionizing Drug Testing

About 90% of drug candidates that appear promising in animal tests fail in human trials. Organ-on-a-chip devices are microfluidic chips lined with living human cells that reproduce organ functions, such as a lung-on-a-chip that rhythmically stretches to simulate breathing. Columbia University linked

August 10, 2025

CubeSat · Ecology · Environment · European Union · Future Trends · Global · Governance · Intelligence Artificielle · Land Monitoring · Nano-Satellites · satellites · Science · Space · Space Exploration · Technology

Complete Guide to Satellite Earth Monitoring: How Space Tech Is Watching Our Planet Now

Landsat-1, launched in July 1972 as ERTS-1, became the first satellite dedicated to mapping Earth’s land resources and began a 50+ year continuous Landsat record. TIROS-1, launched in April 1960, was the world’s first weather satellite and delivered the first TV images

August 10, 2025

Biotechnology · Health · Healthcare · medicine · Science

Beyond COVID Vaccines: The mRNA Revolution Transforming Medicine

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines achieved about 94–95% efficacy in trials and delivered over 13 billion doses globally by 2022. mRNA vaccines deliver lipid nanoparticle–encapsulated mRNA in the cytoplasm, instructing cells to produce a viral antigen and then self-destruct, without entering the nucleus or

August 10, 2025

Science News: 10 August 2025 - 14 August 2025

Cosmic Gold Rush: Inside the 2025 Race to Harvest Asteroid Riches

The Enzyme Revolution: How Engineering Nature’s Catalysts is Transforming Medicine, Food & the Planet

Uploading Minds: The Race for Whole Brain Emulation (WBE) and Its Profound Implications

DNA Makeover: How Gene Editing Therapies Are Curing the “Incurable”

Unhackable Codes: How Quantum Key Distribution is Reinventing Secure Communication

Small Modular Reactors: Tiny Nukes, Big Revolution in Clean Energy

Inside the Weather Data Revolution: How AI, Satellites and Supercomputers Are Transforming Forecasts in 2025

Lab Rats No More: How Organ-on-a-Chip Technology is Revolutionizing Drug Testing

Complete Guide to Satellite Earth Monitoring: How Space Tech Is Watching Our Planet Now

Beyond COVID Vaccines: The mRNA Revolution Transforming Medicine

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