The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been promoted as a potential treatment for Covid-19, is known to have potentially serious effects on heart rhythms. Now,…
Built with wheeled appendages that can be lifted, a new robot developed with U.S. Army funding has complex locomotion techniques robust enough to allow it…
Scientists have tapped the immense power of the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to comb through millions of medical journal articles to identify…
The rolling hills of Mars or the moon are a long way from the nearest tow truck. That’s why the next generation of exploration rovers…
Why did the gecko climb the skyscraper? Because it could; its toes stick to about anything. For a few years, engineers have known the secrets…
It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Now an…
Pressure treating — which involves putting lumber inside a pressurized watertight tank and forcing chemicals into the boards — has been used for more than…
Researchers have devised a straightforward technique for building a laboratory device known as an electroporator – which applies a jolt of electricity to temporarily open…
Armored with plastic ‘hair’ and silica, new perovskite nanocrystals show more durability. Perovskite nanocrystals hold promise for improving a wide variety of optoelectronic devices –…
Compelling Hard Evidence: El Nino Swings More Violently in the Industrial Age El Ninos have become more intense in the industrial age, which stands to…
“They’re out there,” goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis…
High-entropy alloys, which are made from nearly equal parts of several primary metals, could hold great potential for creating materials with superior mechanical properties. But…
There’s a speed limit on the damage surface ponds can do to ice shelves, but that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous. Dangers to ancient Antarctic…
Thanks to new technology that enables them to create simple tools, robots may be on the verge of their own version of the Stone Age….
When the universe was still a baby – less than 1 billion years old – some of its stars turned into monster black holes. A…
Black holes form when stars die, allowing the matter in them to collapse into an extremely dense object from which not even light can escape….
When dehydration strikes, part of the brain can swell, neural signaling can intensify, and doing monotonous tasks can get harder. With the help of brain…
In popular culture, asteroids play the role of apocalyptic threat, get blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs – and offer an extraterrestrial source for mineral…