Editor's Choice: 2025 magazine is out! Plus: asteroid revelations, quantum gem, fish facts and more

Asteroid contains life’s building blocks, How fish detect color, Eco-friendly artificial muscles, Cell imaging gets a glow-up, Quantum gem, Healing skin with milkfish. Plus the 2025 Magazine is here, Read all in the latest Editor's Choice.
2025 magazine is out! Plus: asteroid revelations, quantum gem, fish facts & more

The 2025 Magazine is here

Be inspired by breakthroughs in sustainable transportation, materials technology, human health and medicine, and more.

Enjoy!

Asteroid contains life’s building blocks


Scientists detected all five nucleobases — molecules required for DNA and RNA — in samples returned from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
 

How fish detect color


Zebrafish are known to detect color and brightness with the pineal gland. A study has identified proteins that inactivate cells in the gland depending on intensity of light.
 

Mind's eye
Eco-friendly artificial muscles

Polymer fibres incorporating crop waste can produce and store energy and lift loads thousands of times their own weight, with potential applications in robotics. 

Cell imaging gets a glow-up


By creating new distinct bioluminescent colors for cell imaging, researchers have enabled the simultaneous detection of multiple labeled cells within a population.
 

20 colors
Quantum gem

Researchers have discovered that the gemstone spinel is capable of storing quantum information, making it a viable material in the field of quantum technology. 

Healing skin with milkfish


Milkfish skin, a common waste byproduct of the Philippine fishing industry, could potentially be turned into cost-effective wound dressing.
 

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