Image caption, Being able to 3D-print tactile skin could create robots that are more dexterous, say researchers A 3D-printed fingertip made to help improve prosthetics has a sense of touch like huma… [+1827 chars]
image: PNNL Earth scientist Manish Shrivastava and his team identified an atmospheric process that creates a type of fine particle over the Amazon rainforest. Through the process, semi-volatile gases… [+6951 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Physicists from Paderborn University have developed a novel concept for generating individual photonstiny particles of light that make up electromagnetic radiationwith tail… [+2110 chars]
April is the cruellest month, wrote TS Eliot in his poem The Waste Land. This is not only because the UK tax year begins this week, but also because the centennial of one of the twentieth centurys mo… [+2173 chars]
Earthworms are a welcome sight for gardeners and farmers because the wriggling invertebrates recycle nutrients from soil, making them more accessible to plants. As worms burrow, they consume almost e… [+3243 chars]
Earthworms are a welcome sight for gardeners and farmers because the wriggling invertebrates recycle nutrients from soil, making them more accessible to plants. As worms burrow, they consume almost e… [+2909 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study in Economic Inquiry uses a novel experimental design to deconstruct the motives behind engaging in cronyism, for example, when a manager hires a friend without prop… [+1899 chars]
Apr 6 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith There is another way to utilize the mountain of plastic that is waiting to be thrown away: use it to soak up surplus carbon dioxide. Graduate student Paul Savas fee… [+3640 chars]
Weaver birds that eat seeds flock together and nest in colonies more commonly than those species that eat insects, suggests new research by an international team of scientists led by the Milner Centr… [+4091 chars]
Scientists have recently observed a large planet at an early stage of formation. The planet is already nine times the mass of Jupiter. The researchers used the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Hub… [+3063 chars]
Jupiter’s auroras are significantly more intense than Earth’s, and unlike Earth, Jupiter’s largest moons also create auroral spots. The Galilean moons- the four largest moons of JupiterIo, Europa, Ga… [+2517 chars]
NASA's venerable space telescope has captured a stunning new view of a galaxy with an active black hole obscured by tendrils of dark dust. The spiral galaxy , known as NGC 7172, is located about 11… [+1743 chars]
