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New control system may enable humanoid robots to do heavy lifting and other physically demanding…
Sky survey provides clues to how galaxies change over time. The direction in which a…
Services often mischaracterize trans and non-binary individuals. With a brief glance at a single face,…
New research suggests that women’s feminine hygiene practices – in particular vaginal douching and use…
Squeeze leads to stellar-mass black hole collision precision. Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU)…
University of Chicago scientists examine vulnerability of smart devices and possible defenses. As connected devices…
An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),…
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument begins final testing, setting the stage for a 5-year survey…
New terahertz frequency laser opens up large, underused region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The terahertz…
The fires that raged across the Brazilian Amazon this summer were not ‘normal’ and large…
A new type of material generates electrical current very efficiently from temperature differences. This allows…
The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites to build the structures…
North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It…
New observations of solar spicules, ubiquitous jet-like plasma features that punctuate the Sun’s atmosphere, suggest…
An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute…
A new device can deposit drug-delivering fibers directly onto biological material. With newly developed technology,…
The Universe is simply so vast that it can be difficult to maintain a sense…