A team of mechanical engineers at Rice University in Texas has turned dead wolf spiders into “necrobotic” grippers. They undertook the project in a lab established by assistant professor Daniel Pres… [+1874 chars]
The ancestors of modern mammals developed the ability to regulate their own body temperatures, which might have been useful in cool climates.Credit: Luzia Soares Ear fossils hint at origin of warm b… [+4917 chars]
At 5:29 am on the morning of 16 July 1945, in the state of New Mexico, a dreadful slice of history was made. The dawn calm was torn asunder as the United States Army detonated a plutonium implosion … [+4041 chars]
In a recently published review in the journal Materials Today, different avenues of nanotechnology in architecture, as well as the challenges in employing these techniques and the relevant opportunit… [+4796 chars]
ByYale UniversityJuly 27, 2022 A team of Yale scientists explains how gut bacteria can evolve over time, becoming more pathogenic by gaining the ability to migrate across the gut barrier and persist… [+4645 chars]
Any movement beneath our feetfrom barely perceptible subsidence to the sudden appearance of a sinkhole or a crashing landslidespells big trouble. Even relatively modest subsidence can weaken building… [+5404 chars]
Researchers have created a photoacoustic imaging endoscope probe that can fit inside a medical needle with an inner diameter of just 0.6 millimeters. Photoacoustic imaging, which combines light and s… [+4393 chars]
A team of scientists will soon head to the Aleutian Islands aboard the research vessel Sikuliaq on a voyage to reconstruct the region's ancient history of powerful storms. Little is known about the … [+4302 chars]
Mobile phones from a few decades ago look like antiquated plastic toys today. That's an example of the dramatic miniaturization of modern electronics, as well as added functionality. Unfortunately, t… [+3374 chars]
On Monday, July 25, NASA shared a stunning Mars image. It displayed the surface of the red planet with sand dunes that form small hilly crests. However, the top of the crests were covered in a blue c… [+2015 chars]
Nanoscientists and theoretical physicists at UNSW Medicine & Health's EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science joined forces to demystify the complicated mechanisms governing how quickly tw… [+3768 chars]
Later this year, the Webb Space Telescope will enable scientists to search for some key building blocks of life in the hazy hydrocarbon atmosphere of Saturn's largest Moon, Titan. NASA planetary sci… [+7705 chars]
