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March 13, 2025
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Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers have announced the creation of the first operating system designed for quantum networks: QNodeOS. The research marks a major step forward in transforming quantum networking from a theoretical concept to a practical technology that could ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a water tank to produce complex patterns, such as twisting loops and ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Originally described in the context of particles drifting through liquid, Levy walk has been found to accurately describe a very wide range of phenomena, from cold atom dynamics to swarming bacteria. And now, a new study has found Levy walk in the ...
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Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic, yet powerful structures using 3D printing. One ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — Astronomers have peered back to a time when the universe was just less than 300 million years old. The research team, using JWST revealed something ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — AI models often rely on 'spurious correlations,' making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers have experimentally demonstrated a quantum tornado. Electrons form vortices in the momentum space of the quantum semi-metal tantalum ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark ...
Mar. 7, 2025 — A researcher succeeded developing highly accurate biometric authentication based on images of the palms of hands taken with a hyperspectral ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Researchers have explored the interplay between gravitational effects and quantum interactions in optical atomic clocks, revealing more about quantum ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Cement manufacturing and repair could be significantly improved by using biocement-producing bacteria, but growing the microbes at construction sites remains a challenge. Now, researchers report a ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered techniques to bestow superpowers upon sapphire, a material that most of us think of as just a pretty ...
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Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm through a device that relays signals from his brain to a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — A new study revealed that atmospheric gravity waves play a crucial role in driving latitudinal air currents on Mars, particularly at high altitudes. The findings, based on long-term atmospheric data, ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have created washable and durable magnetic field sensing electronic textiles -- thought to be the first of their kind -- which they say paves the way to transform use in clothing. This ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Within the next decade, space agencies plan to bring samples of rock from Mars to Earth for study. Of concern is the possibility these samples contain life, which could have unforeseen consequences. ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Walking into your favorite restaurant and seeing a robot chef in the kitchen may seem far-fetched, but new research suggests that bots could be a solution to persistent labor shortages in the ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, according to new ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Astronomers have for the first time observed a recurring nova outside of the Milky Way in near-infrared light. The data revealed highly unusual chemical emissions as well as one of the hottest ...
Mar. 4, 2025 — The discovery of new exoplanets can help scientists understand how planets form and ...
Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that multicolored stickers applied to stop or speed limit signs on the roadside can 'confuse' self-driving vehicles, causing unpredictable and possibly ...
Mar. 4, 2025 — The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show ...
Mar. 3, 2025 — For decades, scientists have relied on electrodes and dyes to track the electrical activity of living cells. Now, engineers have discovered that quantum materials just a single atom thick can do the ...
Mar. 3, 2025 — Distressing news and traumatic stories can cause stress and anxiety -- not only in humans, but these stories can also affect AI language models, such as ChatGPT. Researchers have now shown that these ...
Feb. 28, 2025 — Novel technology intends to redefine the virtual reality experience by expanding to incorporate a new sensory connection: ...
Feb. 28, 2025 — Physicists provide a viable and testable explanation for how UHECRs are ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — A research team has developed a way for self-driving vehicles to share their knowledge about road conditions indirectly, making it possible for each vehicle to learn from the experiences of others ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A new study suggests that these issues could be due to the excessively sterile ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers ...
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Paralyzed Man Moves Robotic Arm With His Thoughts
- How's the Weather on Mars?
- Touchless Tech: Control Fabrics With a Wave of Your Finger
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars
- Small and Large Planets Have Significantly Different Upbringings
- My Compliments to the Chef: Researcher Studies Robots in the Kitchen
- Astronomer Finds Gas Giant Exoplanets Formed Earlier Than Previously Thought
- Feeling Is Believing: Bionic Hand 'knows' What It's Touching, Grasps Like a Human
- Ultra-Hot Nova Observed Erupting: Surprising Chemical Signature
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Beyond Our Solar System: Scientists Identify a New Exoplanet Candidate
- Study Shines Headlights on Consumer Driverless Vehicle Safety Deficiencies
- NASA's Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio
Monday, March 3, 2025
- Quantum Properties in Atom-Thick Semiconductors Offer New Way to Detect Electrical Signals in Cells
- ChatGPT on the Couch? How to Calm a Stressed-out AI
Friday, February 28, 2025
- New Device Could Allow You to Taste a Cake in Virtual Reality
- How Do the Universe's Highest-Energy Particles Originate? Magnetic Outflows Stemming from Star Mergers, Analysis Concludes
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Self-Driving Cars Learn to Share Road Knowledge Through Digital Word-of-Mouth
- Young Star Clusters Give Birth to Rogue Planetary-Mass Objects
- The International Space Station Is Overly Sterile; Making It 'dirtier' Could Improve Astronaut Health
- NASA's Hubble Provides Bird's-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy's Ecosystem
- Can We Find Floating Vegetation on Ocean Planets?
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- 'Fluorescent Phoenix' Discovered With Persistence Rivaling Marie Curie's
- Material's 'incipient' Property Could Jumpstart Fast, Low-Power Electronics
- A Springtail-Like Jumping Robot
- Morphing Robot Turns Challenging Terrain to Its Advantage
- Adsorptive Regolith on Mars Soaks Up Water, Researchers Reveal
- New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine
- AI Generates Playful, Human-Like Games
- Novel Photochromic Glass Can Store Rewritable 3D Patterns Long Term
- What Can Theoretical Physics Teach Us About Knitting?
- Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Lunar Trailblazer Blasts Off to Map Water on the Moon
- Why Is Mars Red? Scientists May Finally Have the Answer
- Today's Forecast: Partially Cloudy Skies on an 'ultra-Hot Neptune'
- The Galactic Journey of Our Solar System
- Mesoporous Silicon: Semiconductor With New Talents
- A Completely New Type of Microscopy Based on Quantum Sensors
Monday, February 24, 2025
- DNA Origami Suggests Route to Reusable, Multifunctional Biosensors
- Gulf of Mars: Rover Finds Evidence of 'vacation-Style' Beaches on Mars
Friday, February 21, 2025
- Glass Fertilizer Beads Could Be a Sustained Nutrient Delivery System
- How to Get a Robot Collective to Act Like a Smart Material
- AI Unlocks the Emotional Language of Animals
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Predator Robots Help Researchers Uncover How Larval Zebrafish Rapidly Learn
- Topological Quantum Processor Marks Breakthrough in Computing
- Cooling Materials -- Out of the 3D Printer
- In Ancient Stellar Nurseries, Some Stars Are Born of Fluffy Clouds
- Revolutionizing Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping: A Leap Forward in Augmented Reality
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- A Miniature Swimming Robot Inspired by Marine Flatworms
- For Success in Bioelectronics, Build With Nature-Inspired Design
- Contact Electrification Depends on Materials' Contact History, Physicists Show
- 300 New Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Plus 2500 New Active Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies Discovered
- Bio-Hybrid Drone Uses Silkworm Moth Antennae to Navigate Using Smell
- Magnetic Semiconductor Preserves 2D Quantum Properties in 3D Material
- Magnetic Switch Traps Quantum Information Carriers in One Dimension
- A Robust and Adaptive Controller for Ballbots
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Researchers Record Ultrafast Chorus Dance of Electrons on Super-Small Particle
- Coffee Grounds and Reishi Mushroom Spores Can Be 3D Printed Into a Compostable Alternative to Plastics
- Harnessing Failure as an Asset: How Researchers Are Innovating Smarter Wearable Tech
- Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light
- Einstein Probe Catches X-Ray Odd Couple
- 'Out of Science Fiction': First 3D Observations of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere Reveal a Unique Climate
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Does Planetary Evolution Favor Human-Like Life? Study Ups Odds We're Not Alone
- Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System
- 'Game Changing' Release of Type Ia Supernovae Data May Hold Key to the History of the Universe
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Combining Millions of Years of Evolution With Tech Wizardry: The Cyborg Cockroach
- Record-Speed Waves on Extremely Water-Repellent Surfaces
- Creation of Black Holes Without Singularities Through Pure Gravity
- Physicists Uncover Evidence of Two Arrows of Time Emerging from the Quantum Realm
- Jumping Workouts Could Help Astronauts on the Moon and Mars, Study in Mice Suggests
- Scientists Herald Active Matter Breakthrough With Creation of Three-Dimensional 'synthetic Worms'
- Astronomers Gauge Livability of Exoplanets Orbiting White Dwarf Stars
- Phoenix Galaxy Cluster in the Act of Extreme Cooling
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Biohybrid Hand Gestures With Human Muscles
- Scientists Develop Novel Self-Healing Electronic Skin for Health Monitoring
- Holograms Boost 3D Printing Efficiency and Resolution
- Tidal Energy Measurements Help Scientists Understand Titan's Composition, Orbital History
- First Detection of an Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- 'Smaller and Better': Research Uncovers Performance Sweet Spot for Relaxor Nanomaterial
- Is the Metaverse a New Frontier for Human-Centric Manufacturing?
- When Qubits Learn the Language of Fiberoptics
- From Photons to Protons: Team Makes Breakthrough in High-Energy Particle Detection
Monday, February 10, 2025
- Truly Autonomous AI Is on the Horizon
- A Symphony in Quantum
- Euclid Discovers a Stunning Einstein Ring
Friday, February 7, 2025
- Quantum Theory and Thermodynamics: Maxwell's Demon?
- Temperamental Stars Are Distorting Our View of Distant Planets
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Novel 'living' Biomaterial Aims to Advance Regenerative Medicine
- Mantis Shrimp Clubs Filter Sound to Mitigate Damage
- New Technique to Detect Dark Matter Using Atomic Clocks and Lasers
- Alien Ocean Could Hide Signs of Life from Spacecraft
- Largest Radio Jet Ever Seen in the Early Universe
- Making an Invisible Electric Wire: Guiding Electricity With Sound
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- Dusting for Stars' Magnetic Fingerprints
- Scientists Simulate Asteroid Collision Effects on Climate and Plants
- 'Living' Electrodes Breathe New Life Into Traditional Silicon Electronics
- By Studying Neutron 'starquakes', Scientists Hope to Transform Their Understanding of Nuclear Matter
- Using Sugars from Peas Speeds Up Sour Beer Brewing
- Paving the Way to Quantum Supercomputers