Surging heat may limit aircraft takeoffs globally
Take-off.
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Rising temperatures due to global warming will make it harder for many aircraft around the world to take off...
A drone for last-centimeter delivery
PackDrone.
Credit: Alain Herzog EPFL
A new drone developed at EPFL uses cutting-edge technology to deliver parcels weighing up to 500 grams. The device will never...
How does a cell maintain its identity during replication?
Image of chromosomes in uncondensed form (left) and condensed form in dividing cell (right).
Credit: The lab of Ken Zaret, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine,...
Measuring a crucial mineral in the mantle
Olivine, the most abundant mineral found in the Earth's mantle, is considered to be a robust model of the interior of the Earth's composition.
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Why we did not evolve to live forever: Unveiling the mystery of why we...
C. elegans.
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Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, have made a breakthrough in understanding the origin...
Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests
Sandia National Laboratories' Guillaume Loisel poses with Sandia's Z machine, where hands-on experiments contradicted a long-standing assumption about the X-ray spectra from the vicinity...
Scientists make methanol using air around us
Cardiff Catalysis Institute researchers develop new processes with industry and promote catalysis as a sustainable 21st century technology.
Credit: Mike Hall Photography
Scientists at Cardiff University...
Robot learns to follow orders like Alexa
ComText allows robots to understand contextual commands such as, “Pick up the box I put down.”
Credit: Tom Buehler/MIT CSAIL
Despite what you might see in...
Urban climate change
Watered streets of Houston.
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Southern cities such as Houston and Tampa -- which faced the wrath of hurricanes Harvey and...
Could interstellar ice provide the answer to birth of DNA?
Halley's Comet.
Credit: NASA
Researchers at the University of York have shown that molecules brought to earth in meteorite strikes could potentially be converted into the...
Sorting molecules with DNA robots
Conceptual illustration of two DNA robots collectively performing a cargo-sorting task on a DNA origami surface, transporting fluorescent molecules with different colors from initially...
