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Credit: Anna Nesterova
University of Arizona aerospace and mining engineers are mapping out a plan for harvesting the moon’s resources using autonomous robot swarms and new excavation techniques.
With scientists beginning to more seriously consider constructing bases on celestial bodies such as the moon, the...
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A casting of a nest made by a species of ant found in Florida next to an adult man for scale. Credit: Charles F. Badland
Picture an anthill. What do you see? A small mound of sand and crumbly dirt poking up through the lawn? A tiny hole disappearing into the ground? A few ants scrambling around busily. Not ve...
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In a proof of concept, researchers created more than a dozen reconfigurable building blocks. Each block consisted of eight connected paper cubes and could be reconfigured into eight different shapes. These blocks serve as basic units for constructing a variety of complex structures, such as the one shown here...
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09-04
New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that elephants dilate their nostrils in order to create more space in their trunks, allowing them to store up to nine liters of water. They can also suck up three liters per se...
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09-03
Example of 3D-printed copper component that could be used in a particle accelerator: X-band klystron output cavity with micro-cooling channels. Credit: Christopher Ledford/North Carolina State University
SLAC scientists and collaborato...
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08-25
Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Daniel Goldman watches as a simple robot device executes a series of jumps designed to examine the dynamics of jumping.
Jumping is much more complicated that it might seem, at least for robots. A new st...
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08-22
A new disposable, affordable “smart” diaper embedded with an RFID tag is designed by MIT researchers to sense and communicate wetness to a nearby RFID reader, which in turn can wirelessly send a notification to a caregiver that it’s ti...
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08-22
Army researchers Dr. Stephen Berkebile (left) and Nikhil Murthy (right) examine how silicon nitride responds to steel during dry sliding mechanical contact to better understand equipment breakdowns. Credit: Courtesy Vincent Coburn
Warf...
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08-20
The anchor spicules that hold the sponge species Euplectella aspergillum to the ocean floor have an intricately layered internal structure. Similar layered structures are known to increase the toughness of materials like bone and nacre...
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08-20
Credit: City University of Hong Kong / Nature
Generating electricity from raindrops efficiently has gone one step further. A research team led by scientists from the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has recently developed a dr...
Credit: Anna Nesterova University of Arizona aerospace and mining engineers are mapping out a plan for harvesting the moon’s resources using autonomous robot swarms and new excavation techniques. With scientists beginning to more seriously consider constructing bases on celestial bodies such as the moon, the...
A casting of a nest made by a species of ant found in Florida next to an adult man for scale. Credit: Charles F. Badland Picture an anthill. What do you see? A small mound of sand and crumbly dirt poking up through the lawn? A tiny hole disappearing into the ground? A few ants scrambling around busily. Not ve...
In a proof of concept, researchers created more than a dozen reconfigurable building blocks. Each block consisted of eight connected paper cubes and could be reconfigured into eight different shapes. These blocks serve as basic units for constructing a variety of complex structures, such as the one shown here...
New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that elephants dilate their nostrils in order to create more space in their trunks, allowing them to store up to nine liters of water. They can also suck up three liters per se...
Example of 3D-printed copper component that could be used in a particle accelerator: X-band klystron output cavity with micro-cooling channels. Credit: Christopher Ledford/North Carolina State University SLAC scientists and collaborato...
Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Daniel Goldman watches as a simple robot device executes a series of jumps designed to examine the dynamics of jumping. Jumping is much more complicated that it might seem, at least for robots. A new st...
A new disposable, affordable “smart” diaper embedded with an RFID tag is designed by MIT researchers to sense and communicate wetness to a nearby RFID reader, which in turn can wirelessly send a notification to a caregiver that it’s ti...
Army researchers Dr. Stephen Berkebile (left) and Nikhil Murthy (right) examine how silicon nitride responds to steel during dry sliding mechanical contact to better understand equipment breakdowns. Credit: Courtesy Vincent Coburn Warf...
The anchor spicules that hold the sponge species Euplectella aspergillum to the ocean floor have an intricately layered internal structure. Similar layered structures are known to increase the toughness of materials like bone and nacre...
Credit: City University of Hong Kong / Nature Generating electricity from raindrops efficiently has gone one step further. A research team led by scientists from the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has recently developed a dr...