A miniature robot designed to help conduct remote surgeries could be tested on board the International Space Station before the end of 2024. Eventually, the surgical robot could be used to repair "a… [+2461 chars]
Newswise — Budapest, Hungary – In the 17th century, the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens hanged two of his recently invented pendulum clocks on a wooden beam and observed that as time passed, the c… [+4071 chars]
Yale astrophysicists have helped assemble an unprecedented census of the most powerful, growing supermassive black holes in the universe. Using data from NASAs Swift satellite and a collection of gr… [+3568 chars]
To efficiently navigate real-world environments, robots typically analyze images collected by imaging devices that are integrated within their body. To enhance the performance of robots, engineers ha… [+4287 chars]
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Dr. Pushkar Lele and a team of researchers from Texas A&M University conducted a study to see how indolean organic compound and a significant component of the bacterial exometabolomeimpacts the e… [+4380 chars]
Lactating Weddell seals transfer iron from their livers into their milk to promote their offsprings ability to dive, suggests a study in Nature Communications. This process comes at the cost of their… [+1556 chars]
Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has conducted a spectroscopic study of a young open cluster NGC 3293. Results of the research, published July 26 on the arXi… [+3564 chars]
An international team of researchers has developed a new type of strong and elastic two-dimensional (2D) membrane. The invention could prove useful, for instance, in detecting remnants of antibiotics… [+3013 chars]
Sampling the radiation To understand the phylogenetic relationships between Alpine whitefish, we carried out whole-genome resequencing on 96 previously collected whitefish (with associated phenotypi… [+25365 chars]
Scientists from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) have used elastic shell theory to describe how the stiffness of plant cell walls depends on their elasticity and internal turgor press… [+3351 chars]
Sustainable fuel and chemicals production is closer to becoming a practical reality after KAUST researchers analyzed a precious metal-free electrochemical hydride transfer catalyst and discovered mol… [+3255 chars]
