New Flying Worker Robots for Skyscraper Maintenance
Skyscrapers are rising rapidly around the world, continuously transforming city skylines. However, their repair and maintenance is becoming more and more difficult. So, who can…
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Intelligent Metasurface Imager Can Remotely Monitor People Using Radio-Frequency Probe Signals
The Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber physical systems have opened up possibilities for smart cities and smart homes, and are changing the way for…
New Results on Black Hole and Neutron Star X-Ray Binaries From Insight-HXMT
Scientists with the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) team presented their new results on black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries during a press conference…
Has Global Warming Stopped?
As a result of industrialization, the carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has increased continuously over the past 100 years, which is considered as the…
Weathering Antarctic Storms and the Importance of Weather Balloon Data
Observational data from radiosondes deployed in Antarctica improve the forecasting accuracy for severe Antarctic cyclones, according to a Japanese research team led by the Kitami…
Evidence of How a Dwarf Galaxy Contributes to Growth of the Milky Way
Small stellar systems like dwarf galaxies are suggested to be the main building blocks of our Galaxy. However, it is unclear how many and what…
Astronomers Reveal a Warped and Twisted Milky Way
Our Milky Way galaxy’s disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it becomes increasingly ‘warped’ and twisted far away from the Milky…
Mass Extinction Happened in a Geological ‘Instant’
It took less than 30,000 years and maybe only thousands, to kill more than 90% of sea creatures and most land species, according to the…
Fossils Reveal New Insight on Mesozoic Pollinating Insects
Insect pollination played an important role in the evolution of angiosperms. Little is known, however, about ancient pollination insects and their niche diversity during the…
Researchers Discover Two New Chinese Dinosaurs: Bannykus and Xiyunykus
Digit reduction occurs many times in tetrapod evolution, and the most famous example is the ‘horse series’ of North America. An international research team announced…
When Did Animals Leave Their First Footprint on Earth?
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong put the first footprint on the moon. But when did animals leave the first footprint on Earth? Recently, an…
Unexpected Burst of Newborn Stars Puzzles Astronomers
Since the limited amount of gas survived from the first bulk star forming process will be quickly expelled within several million years, star clusters have…
Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey Discovers a Millisecond Pulsar
China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST), still under commissioning, discovered a radio millisecond pulsar (MSP) coincident with the unassociated gamma-ray source 3FGL J0318.1+0252 in the…
Exceptionally Preserved Embryos Detail the Life History of a Pterosaur
The pterosaur record is generally poor, and pterosaur eggs are even rarer. Only a handful of isolated occurrences of eggs and embryos have been reported…