MIT engineers design soft and flexible “skeletons” for muscle-powered robots
Our muscles are nature’s perfect actuators — devices that turn energy into motion. For their size, muscle fibers are more...
Protecting art and passwords with biochemistry
Security experts fear Q-Day, the day when quantum computers become so powerful that they can crack today’s passwords. Some experts...
Preventive angioplasty does not improve prognosis
For heart attack patients, treating only the coronary artery that caused the infarction works just as well as preventive balloon...
How plants adjust their photosynthesis to changing light
Light supplies the energy plants need to build up biomass. A research team from Bergen, Bochum, Düsseldorf, Münster and Potsdam...
AACR: PARP1-selective inhibitor demonstrates early efficacy in breast cancers with DNA repair defects
ABSTRACT CT014Credit: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ABSTRACT CT014 SAN DIEGO – The first-in-class PARP1-selective inhibitor saruparib...
Coral researchers awarded EXIST start-up funding
Coral farming based on sexual propagation, leading to a more sustainable coral trade and helping to protect coral reefs –...
Proof-of-principle demonstration of 3-D magnetic recording
1. Research groups from NIMS, Seagate Technology, and Tohoku University have made a breakthrough in the field of hard disk...
This 3D printer can figure out how to print with an unknown material
While 3D printing has exploded in popularity, many of the plastic materials these printers use to create objects cannot be...
Barbie may help physicians, patients have more productive telehealth visits
As telehealth visits become more prevalent, physicians can sometimes struggle to help patients effectively demonstrate a musculoskeletal exam through a...
Mediterranean marine worm has developed eyes “as big as millstones”
The Vanadis bristle worm has eyes as big as millstones – relatively speaking. Indeed, if our eyes were proportionally as...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Warm seawater speeding up melting of ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ scientists warn
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Probiotics during pregnancy shown to help moms and babies