High-tech ‘skins’ turn everyday objects into robots0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 20, 2018
Changing how the skins wrap around a tube can achieve different types of motion
Changing how the skins wrap around a tube can achieve different types of motion
We usually associate volcanoes with extreme heat. But new results demonstrate that the Solar System’s largest asteroid, Ceres, is covered in volcanoes that have spewed ice throughout their history.
Thanks to Plato’s account of the lost city and Google Earth, new visual and arithmetic clues suggest that the mythical city of Atlantis may have been hiding in plain sight the entire time, in rather an unlikely place.
Force of light boosts electrons close to speed of light
Planetary researchers from Rutgers University and the University of California, Berkeley may have solved the mystery behind lunar swirls, wispy bright regions scattered on the Moon’s surface. The solution hints at the dynamism of the Moon’s ancient past as a place with volcanic activity and an internally generated magnetic field.
An altar found at Guatemala’s La Corona site suggests the Mayan dynasty of Kaanul, known as the Snake Kings, acted like its namesake in slowly squeezing the rival kingdom of Tikal, archaeologists said Friday.
Elizabeth April tells her story
Two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way — the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds — may have had a third companion, astronomers believe. New research describes how another ‘luminous’ galaxy was likely engulfed by the Large Magellanic Cloud some three to five billion years ago.
An unusual infrared emission from the neutron star RX J0806.4-4123 detected by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could indicate new features never before seen: one possibility is that there is a disk of material surrounding the neutron star; another is that there is an energetic wind coming off RX J0806.4-4123 and slamming into gas in interstellar space the neutron star is plowing through.
Canadian scientists identify new cellular target to weaken P. aeruginosa — a severe threat to patients with cystic fibrosis