Welcome to the wonderful world of necrobotics Why bother to design your own robots when you can just reuse what nature created? This was the thought process behind a research project from engineers… [+3663 chars]
A new study in AGU's Geophysical Research Letters reports on the first detection of a large, distant earthquake in a network of balloon-bound pressure sensors in the stratosphere. The technique could… [+4447 chars]
The enzymes found in living organisms have impressive catalytic power. Thanks to enzymes, the chemical reactions that sustain life happen millions of times faster than they would occur without them. … [+3811 chars]
University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher Dr. Matthew Toohey (Ph.D.) and University of Bern researcher Dr. Michael Sigl (Ph.D.) were part of the research team that developed an updated, more accu… [+3870 chars]
Ius and Tithonium Chasmata are located at the western end of Valles Marineris. Tithonium Chasma is north of Ius Chasma. Valles Marineris is over 4000 kilometers long (2495 miles), almost as wide as t… [+1680 chars]
Quantum computing, a field that relies on the principles of quantum mechanics to calculate outcomes, has the potential to perform tasks too complex for traditional computers and to do so at high spee… [+4872 chars]
The AI-powered protein-folding model AlphaFold has predicted more than 200 million proteins, nearly all such structures known to science, DeepMind said on Thursday. Proteins are complex biological m… [+5236 chars]
Quantum computers are built using qubits, the quantum analogs of classical bits, the function of which is based on two fundamental phenomena at the heart of quantum computing: quantum entanglement an… [+4574 chars]
A photographer has used his 3D printer to create an impressive 900mm reflector telescope that is so simple to put together that “its like assembling furniture from IKEA.” The design, which Jonathan… [+3882 chars]
In the northernmost region of the earth the arctic permafrost is melting at an accelerated rate. For more than a decade, an international team of researchers from ETH Zurich, the University of Alaska… [+4188 chars]
Almost seven years ago (September 14th, 2015), researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves (GWs) for the first time. Their results were … [+6478 chars]
Two skyscraper-size asteroids are zooming toward Earth this weekend, with one making its closest approach on Friday (29 July) and the second whizzing by on Saturday (30 July). The first asteroid, du… [+2587 chars]
