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The coastline near Derwent Howe, in England’s Cumbria, hardly seems a place where geologists would find new things. They’ve ...
Tardigrades are already the stuff of legend — tiny, eight-legged creatures that can survive freezing, boiling, starvation, ...
Robots usually love big, open fields — but most farms are small and chaotic. Robots love big farms. But most farms aren’t big ...
Secondary gravity waves are ripples in the atmosphere created when primary gravity waves, like those triggered by a volcanic ...
A United States Air Force craft spraying defoliant (herbicide) in Vietnam. Image via Wiki Commons. When the Vietnam War ...
During the NOAA team’s ongoing Beyond the Blue: Illuminating the Pacific expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer, researchers ...
Unlike many high-end prosthetics that require surgically implanted chips, Open Bionics’ devices are operated through MyoPods ...
By converting about 391,000 hectares of cornfields into solar farms, the U.S. could not only replace the energy content of ...
Sonic booms have long been a barrier to overland supersonic flights. The Concorde was banned from virtually every country in ...
To test his mental math-solving skills, the Guinness World Records team recently invited Aaryan to Dubai, where he was asked ...
On a windswept plain 140 million miles from Earth, a dark speck moves across the ochre sands of Mars. For more than a decade, ...
In February, a small aircraft flew 300 miles through the skies, guided only by Earth’s magnetic field. How so? Onboard was a ...