Watch a robot with living muscles walk through water
A tiny, biohybrid robot moves by contracting lab-grown muscle tissue in its legs – but it needs help to stand…
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Stunning pictures show the first ever artificial solar eclipse
The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of…
Strange ‘magic islands’ on Saturn’s moon Titan may be porous icebergs
Titan’s methane seas have ephemeral “magic islands” that have baffled scientists for years. They may be made of odd, porous…
Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change
A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes…
Tentacle robot can bend through pipes and unscrew bolts
A soft, tubular robot can bend, twist, expand and contract when exposed to different intensities of light
Humpback whale songs have patterns that resemble human language
The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which…
Your ears and nose are made from tissue that looks like bubble wrap
It turns out that the cartilage inside your ears and nose is different from that found elsewhere in the body,…
Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA’s redirection test
The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its…
Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study
Nature has retracted the scientific paper that claimed earlier this year that the wonder material known as “red matter” was…