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Shawn Michaels is remembered for his high-energy performances, signature wrestling moves and distinctive stage costumes. However, preserving the outfits worn by the WWE legend presented a different kind of challenge. The synthetic materials used in some wrestling costumes can deteriorate over time, leaving conservators with the difficult task of protecting both the fabric and its…

Scientists at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have discovered how tin-based perovskite materials allow hot electrons to retain their excess energy for around 1,000 times longer than expected, a finding that could shape the future of solar power. The researchers found that two physical effects, the hot phonon bottleneck and the Burstein–Moss effect,…

Surgeons Leonardo Riella and Tatsuo Kawai with patient Tim Andrews after Andrews’ xenotransplant in 2025. A genetically engineered pig kidney kept a 66-year-old man off dialysis for a record 271 days before he successfully received a donor organ, marking a major advancement towards using animal organs to “bridge” the widening gap between organ demand and…

Nawai has been selected as one of 30 finalists in the 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Kianoosh Nawai, an eighth-grader at West Virginia Virtual Academy, wanted to explore how technology could help people with disabilities. His project led him to design and build a 3D-printed prosthetic hand that aims to offer a lower-cost…

A medieval castle believed to have disappeared around 150 years ago has turned out to be hiding in plain sight inside a university building in Dublin, with researchers finding that its ancient walls and courtyard survived beneath the later structure.The discovery concerns Roebuck Castle on the Belfield campus of University College Dublin (UCD). The Norman…

Harvard students– Radhika Saran, Cleo Pontone and Sophia DeVito– build $6,500 award-winning headset to screen athletes for concussions in 60 seconds Three Harvard students have built a low-cost infrared headset that can screen athletes for possible concussions in about 60 seconds, bringing objective eye-tracking data from the clinic to the sideline. Their invention, called Rumble…

A view of the inscriptions and city view of Mesen For more than three millennia, the name Mesen survived in ancient records without a confirmed place on the map. Now, a battered stone inscription found in Egypt’s northern Sinai may have given archaeologists their strongest clue yet to the city’s whereabouts, states an online report…

Representative Image via Canva For 66 million years, the body temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex (T.rex) lived only in speculation. Now, a new study has taken the dinosaur’s temperature using chemistry locked inside its fossilised teeth, finding an average of about 36.3°C (97.3°F), strikingly close to the human norm. The research, published in Science Advances, offers…

At first glance, Messier 64 looks like a classic spiral galaxy. Its bright centre is wrapped in sweeping arms, while a broad, dark band of dust cuts across one side of its nucleus, giving it the distinctive appearance that earned it the nickname Black Eye Galaxy. But beneath that familiar spiral shape lies something much…

HYDERABAD: To expand robotic surgeries across govt hospitals, the health department is planning to make three to six months of training in robotic procedures mandatory for postgraduate (PG) medical students.The move is aimed at creating a large pool of uniformly trained surgeons so that robotic surgery is not limited to leading institutions in Hyderabad and…