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First steps towards the touch robot
Researchers have succeeded in getting it to recognize sixty percent of human touches.Credit:University of Twente
A squeeze in the arm, a pat on the shoulder,...
How sweet it is: Artificial sweeteners in blood
A recent study by investigators at the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health measured how much...
AI predicts outcomes of human rights trials
The judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have been predicted to 79% accuracy using an artificial intelligence (AI) method developed...
New bacteria groups, and stunning diversity, discovered underground
All the known major bacterial groups are represented by wedges in this circular 'tree of life.' The bigger wedges are more diverse groups. Green...
Quantifying urban revitalization
Researchers used sample images, like the ones on the top row, to identify several visual features that are highly correlated with judgments that a...
New metamaterial paves way for terahertz technologies
Figure showing how the metamaterial, with cross-chaped openings, can deflect a terahertz beam’s angle. Credit: University of California, Los Angeles
A research team led by...
New method increases energy density in lithium batteries
Yuan Yang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a new method to increase the energy density of lithium...
‘Heartbeat Stars’ Unlocked in New Study
This artist's concept depicts "heartbeat stars," which have been detected by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and others. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Matters of the heart can be...
Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons
Uranus is seen in this false-color view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope from August 2003. The brightness of the planet's faint rings and dark...
The importance of the amount of physical activity on the risk of developing type...
Image credit: Flickr/hulagway
Two new papers published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes ) reveal the importance of...
Move over, lasers: Scientists can now create holograms from neutrons, too
For the first time, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used neutron beams to create holograms...
