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November 20, 2024
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Nov. 20, 2024 — Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is harmonized, researchers have ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — A re-engineered wearable ultrasound patch for continuous and noninvasive blood pressure monitoring has undergone comprehensive clinical validation on over 100 patients, marking a major milestone in ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — A new theory, that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first time the precise shape of a single ...
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Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers study how Champatis roll and bounce down inclines. The authors released a heap of the seeds down an inclined plane while a camera ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Humans and animals move with remarkable economy without consciously thinking about it by utilizing the natural oscillation patterns of their bodies. A new tool can now utilize this knowledge for the ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Through the intricate study of lava tubes -- caves formed following volcanic eruptions when lava cools down -- an international team of researchers has uncovered clues about Earth's ancient ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — A theoretical astrophysicist may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual 'zebra' pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — It turns out gaming is good for you! New research indicates massive multiplayer online gamers learn by gaming and their skills in the workplace are enriched by those seemingly endless hours ...
Nov. 16, 2024 — Quantum-science advances using AI can measure very small surfaces and distances -- opening a world of medical, manufacturing and other ...
Nov. 16, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that in a foraging ant's search for food, it will leave pheromone trails connecting its colony to multiple food sources when they're available, successfully creating the ...
Nov. 14, 2024 — Robots that can sense touch and perceive temperature differences? An unexpected material might just make this a reality. Researchers are developing soft and intelligent sensor materials based on ...
Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers have explored how a particular chemical can selectively trap certain molecules in the cavities of its structure -- even though in normal ...
Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers have created a headphone prototype that allows listeners to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 ...
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Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers have found that under certain conditions, a laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a shadow, opening new possibilities for technologies that could use a laser beam to control ...
Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers have developed robotic trousers that enable people to walk more easily while expending measurably less energy. The aim is to keep frail individuals and in particular the elderly mobile ...
Nov. 14, 2024 — 'Cool' white lights -- such as those in modern car headlights -- endanger moths by causing them to fly erratically, new research ...
Nov. 14, 2024 — Scientists have advanced their NeuroMechFly model, simulating fruit fly movement in the real world. With integrated vision and smell, NeuroMechFly v2 helps us understand brain-body coordination, ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — Engineers have invented a protective coating for concrete pipes that could help drastically reduce the formation of fatbergs in ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — Researchers have developed a robot that identifies different plant species at various stages of growth by 'touching' their leaves with an electrode. The robot can measure properties such as ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — A research team has succeeded in synthesizing simple, environmentally sensitive cells complete with artificial organelles. For the first time, the researchers have also been able to emulate natural ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — Researchers have developed PanoRadar, a new tool to give robots superhuman vision by transforming simple radio waves into detailed, 3D views of the ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — An international research team has for the first time designed realistic photonic time crystals ---- exotic materials that exponentially amplify light. The breakthrough opens up exciting ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...
Nov. 11, 2024 — Research describes a computational model that captures the intricate muscular architecture of an octopus ...
Nov. 11, 2024 — Like the Earth, the Sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research. But unlike on Earth, the formation and evolution of these vortices are driven by magnetic ...
Nov. 11, 2024 — The discovery, centred around controlling tiny hurricanes of light and electromagnetic fields, could revolutionise how much information we can deliver over ...
Nov. 11, 2024 — A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors, say ...
Nov. 7, 2024 — An AI model could accurately identify goats in pain, opening up better treatment opportunities for animals and non-verbal ...
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- Scientists Discover Laser Light Can Cast a Shadow
- Robotic Shorts Support People When Walking
- 'Cool' White Car Headlights More Likely to Dazzle Moths
- NeuroMechFly V2: Simulating How Fruit Flies See, Smell, and Navigate
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- Meteorite Contains Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars 742 Million Years Ago
- Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes
- On the Origin of Life: How the First Cell Membranes Came to Exist
- Anti-Fatberg Invention Could Help Unclog City Sewers
- Robot Identifies Plants by 'touching' Their Leaves
- Three Galactic 'red Monsters' In the Early Universe
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- A Formula for Life? New Model Calculates Chances of Intelligent Beings in Our Universe and Beyond
- Synthetic Cells Emulate Natural Cellular Communication
- Giving Robots Superhuman Vision Using Radio Signals
- Breakthrough in Photonic Time Crystals Could Change How We Use and Control Light
- Astronomers' Theory of How Galaxies Formed May Be Upended
Monday, November 11, 2024
- A Milestone in the Study of Octopus Arms
- Swirling Polar Vortices Likely Exist on the Sun
- Storm in a Laser Beam: Physicists Create 'light Hurricanes' That Could Transport Huge Amounts of Data
- Robot That Watched Surgery Videos Performs With Skill of Human Doctor, Researchers Report
Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Scientists Trained AI to Detect Faces in Pain, in Goats
- Robot Learns How to Clean a Washbasin
- Astrophysicists Use Echoes of Light to Illuminate Black Holes
- Off-the-Shelf Thermoelectric Generators Can Upgrade CO2 Into Chemicals: The Combination Could Help Us Colonize Mars
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- Scientists Unveil Strategies to Make Self-Driven Vehicles Passenger-Friendly
- Interstellar Methane as Progenitor of Amino Acids?
- Quantum Vortices Confirm Superfluidity in Supersolid
- AI-Driven Mobile Robots Team Up to Tackle Chemical Synthesis
- New Haptic Patch Transmits Complexity of Touch to the Skin
- Asteroid Grains Shed Light on the Outer Solar System's Origins
- Mighty Radio Bursts Linked to Massive Galaxies
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
- The Secrets of Baseball's Magic Mud
- Dance of Electrons Measured in the Glow from Exploding Neutron-Stars
- Astronomers Discover the Fastest-Feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe
Friday, November 1, 2024
- NASA's Hubble, Webb Probe Surprisingly Smooth Disk Around Vega
- Revolutionary High-Speed 3D Bioprinter Hailed a Game Changer for Drug Discovery
Thursday, October 31, 2024
- New Methods for Whale Tracking and Rendezvous Using Autonomous Robots
- New ESO Image Captures a Dark Wolf in the Sky
- A Rudimentary Quantum Network Link Between Dutch Cities
- How Virtual Cows Could Help Us Improve Human-Robot Interactions
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- One of the Fastest-Spinning Stars in the Universe
- Evidence Mounts for Dark Energy from Black Holes
- It's Not to Be. Universe Too Short for Shakespeare Typing Monkeys
Monday, October 28, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
- Batteries for Miniature Bio-Integrated Devices and Robotics
- Saturn's Moon Titan Has Insulating Methane-Rich Crust Up to Six Miles Thick
Thursday, October 24, 2024
- Scientists Develop Grain-Sized Soft Robots Controlled by Magnetic Fields for Targeted Drug Delivery
- Successful Experiment Paves the Way for New Element
- AI-Generated News Is Harder to Understand, Study Finds
- Unnoticeable Electric Currents Could Reduce Skin Infections
- Dandelion-Shaped Supernova and Zombie Star
- From Accessibility Upgrades to a Custom Cat-Food Bowl, This Mobile 3D Printer Can Autonomously Add Features to a Room
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
- People Hate Stories They Think Were Written by AI: Even If They Were Written by People
- Unexpected Beauty, Major Antimicrobial Power Boost as Phages Form Into Surprising Flower Shapes
Friday, October 18, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- Astronomers Detect Ancient Lonely Quasars With Murky Origins
- People Sympathize With Bullied AI Bots
- Quantum Research Breakthrough Uses Synthetic Dimensions to Efficiently Process Quantum Information
- Life-Saving Spongelike 'bandage' Rapidly Stops Hemorrhaging and Mitigates Risk of Infection
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- Out-of-This-World Simulation Key to Collecting Moon Dust
- Researchers Develop Janus-Like Metasurface Technology That Acts According to the Direction of Light
- Are Nearby Planets Sending Radio Signals to Each Other?
- It's Twins! Mystery of Famed Brown Dwarf Solved
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
- New App Performs Real-Time, Full-Body Motion Capture With a Smartphone
- Researchers Develop System Cat's Eye-Inspired Vision for Autonomous Robotics
- Simulated Mission to Mars: Survey of Lichen Species
Friday, October 11, 2024
- 'Inside-Out' Galaxy Growth Observed in the Early Universe
- Researchers Find Clues to the Mysterious Heating of the Sun's Atmosphere
- New 3D Printing Technique Creates Unique Objects Quickly and With Less Waste
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- 'Islands' Of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem
- Snowflake Dance Analysis Could Improve Rain Forecasts
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- The New Fashion: Clothes That Help Combat Rising Temperatures
- Inspired by Spider-Man, a Lab Recreates Web-Slinging Technology
- Can Advanced AI Can Solve Visual Puzzles and Perform Abstract Reasoning?
- NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball
- Nature and Plastics Inspire Breakthrough in Soft Sustainable Materials
- Ultra-Sensitive Robotic 'finger' Can Take Patient Pulses, Check for Lumps
- Over 160,000 New Viruses Discovered by AI
- A Matter of Taste: Electronic Tongue Reveals AI 'inner Thoughts'
- New Breakthrough Helps Free Up Space for Robots to 'think', Say Scientists
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- Ice Cream-Inspired Physics: Team Uncovers a Quantum Mpemba Effect, With a Host of 'cool' Implications
- Holographic 3D Printing Has the Potential to Revolutionize Multiple Industries
Monday, October 7, 2024
- New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable
- Space Oddity: Most Distant Rotating Disc Galaxy Found
Thursday, October 3, 2024
- In Odd Galaxy, NASA's Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars
- Widespread Ice Deposits on the Moon
- Nanostructures in the Deep Ocean Floor Hint at Life's Origin
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- NASA's TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets
- AI Simulation Gives People a Glimpse of Their Potential Future Self
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- Physicists Explore Possibility of Life Beyond Earth
- Stronger Together: Miniature Robots in Convoy for Endoscopic Surgery
- Scientists Discover Planet Orbiting Closest Single Star to Our Sun
- Feet First: AI Reveals How Infants Connect With Their World
- Squid-Inspired Fabric for Temperature-Controlled Clothing
- Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide on Pluto's Moon Charon