A Cornell project funded by two separate three-year grants will develop worm-like, soil-swimming robots to sense and record soil properties, water, the soil microbiome...
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Few telescopes will get an emotional response from the general public when it is ultimately announced that they will be decommissioned. In the case of the...
A new study circumvents a 178-year-old theory.
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And CEO Peter Beck still plans to eat his hat, as promised.
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How do humans perceive color? An NIH experiment finds a way to measure what happens after light hits the eye—using brain scans.
Beijing pours billions of dollars into its space programme with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022.
Watching metamaterials at work in real time using ultrafast electron diffraction: a research team succeeds in using ultrashort electron pulses to measure light-matter...