A pangolin-inspired small robot designed to perform safe and minimally invasive medical procedures inside of the body was revealed in a study published this week. The...
It looks fake at first glance—how could 3,400 years of time leave a hunk of metal so untouched? Yet when archaeologists from Bavaria’s State Office for...
Cambridge University researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air – and transformed into clean,...
Jets of light 100,000 billion times brighter than the sun have been captured by astronomers observing a quasar—the most powerful object in the universe. The beams...
More than 700,000 objects in the universe are available for study as part of a 3D map cleverly produced by scientists looking to study the effects...
It’s long been supposed that implants could connect prosthetics to the brain in a way that stimulates nervous system commands with electrical signals. Now, this idea...
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. This is Part 2 of a...
Despite the veins in a leaf appearing like a nervous system, our woody neighbors do not have a nervous system—but that doesn’t mean they can’t feel...
Having a twice-a-week yoga practice has recently been shown to be effective at reducing symptoms of fatigue in people with cancer, as well as reducing the...
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. Published in April of last year,...