A new class of soft, electrically activated devices is capable of mimicking the expansion and contraction of natural muscles. These devices, which can be constructed from a wide range of low-cost materials, are able to self-sense their movements and self-heal from electrical damage, representing a major advance in soft robotics.
Daily Archives: January 4, 2018
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The Trump administration disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change last year but the scientists on the panel won’t be deterred. They’re taking their research elsewhere. Columbia University’s Earth Institute has hired one of the committee’s researchers, Richard Moss of the University of Maryland, who will reconvene most of the […]
Never trust anyone who is rude to a waiter, advice columnists say. But while humans generally prefer individuals who are nice to others, a Duke University study finds bonobos are more attracted to jerks. The fact that our closest primate relatives prefer bullies suggests that an aversion to creeps is […]
Researchers have used precision editing of the bacterial populations in the gut to prevent or reduce the severity of inflammation in a mouse model of colitis.
Kate Middleton married Prince William, both 35, in 2011, and the wedding day was an incredibly lavish affair, as could be expected for a prince. Marrying into the Royal Family is a daunting prospect for any person, but the Middleton family had a sweet way of making sure Kate would […]
Astronomers have revealed an ‘astonishing’ overabundance of massive stars in a neighboring galaxy. The discovery, made in the gigantic star-forming region 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, has ‘far-reaching’ consequences for our understanding of how stars transformed the pristine Universe into the one we live in today.
The disused military buildings dating from Soviet times were razed in an operation just before Christmas. The former Red Army base was wiped off the map in the mysterious operation. Video footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry shows a series of explosions flattening the Cold War fortification. More than […]
Fans always knew that the final season was coming. Just like winter, however, it wasn’t sure when it would exactly arrive. They have been waiting even longer for author George RR Martin to release the sixth book in the series. Now that HBO has revealed when Season 8 will hit […]