With its adorable stereo-camera eyes, the Lightweight Rover Unit 1 (LRU1) robot, posing on the black gravel of Italy's Mount Etna, resembles PIXAR's famous animated character WALL-E. LRU1 is one of a… [+3262 chars]
Government policies often are presented with hefty price tags, but people often zone out as more zeros are added to the total cost. A new study from Carnegie Mellon University suggests that rescaling… [+5213 chars]
Medical and life science researchers will benefit from the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic data on zebrafish, newly published research suggests. The atlas will help researchers to better stu… [+3428 chars]
Scientists who were surveying a catalog of gas clouds spotted something strange: five "blue blobs" composed of young blue stars in the Virgo galaxy cluster. Unusually, these stars were completely i… [+1980 chars]
RUDN professor suggested the way to create porous silicon nanostructures strictly on a given region. This will help forming the silicon substrate with neurons or other biological objects and for exam… [+2498 chars]
Nasa has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans be… [+5006 chars]
BANG! The shot rings out. And the bullet bounces harmlessly away. How? Glass that’s purpose-built to stop penetrating projectiles. But this brilliant blocker didn’t happen overnight. It took years o… [+7810 chars]
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If you have seen Adam McKay's anxiety-inducing 2021 flick "Don't Look Up" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, then you can imagine the importance of closely monitoring and understanding… [+3500 chars]
Scientists have unlocked the mysterious origins of Earth's minerals and detailed their diverse formation over billions of years, finding evidence for the role of water and rare elements in their form… [+5624 chars]
The comet, pictured by an amateur astronomer this year. (APOD/NASA) A huge 11 mile-wide chunk of ice which was the furthest-out active comet ever spotted in our solar system is hurtling towards Eart… [+2169 chars]
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