A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still “sense, think, and act” autonomously, according to the engineers who built it.
To the team’s best knowledge, this joint invention is the world’s smallest programmable robot that can…
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What 38 million obituaries reveal about how Americans define a 'life well lived'
Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the values each era chose to honor.
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Elusive wild cat feared extinct rediscovered in Thailand
An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, conservation authorities and an NGO said Friday.
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Study finds a better way to screen for breast cancer
A pioneering study has found that an individualized approach to breast cancer screening that assesses patients’ risk, rather than annual mammograms, can lower the chance of more advanced cancers, while still safely match people to the amount of…
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16,000 fossil footprints in central Bolivia reveal dinosaur behavior
Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters—capable of sinking their claws even into solid stone.
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One of World’s Rarest Cats Has Finally Resurfaced
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A strange looking Southeast Asian cat went missing in Thailand about 30 years…
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Nanosensors reveal if immunotherapy is working days before tumors respond
Adoptive T cell therapy shows promise against cancer, but monitoring whether treatment is working remains difficult. A new nanosensor platform uses gold nanoparticles coated with peptides that granzyme B, an enzyme released by tumor-killing T…
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Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes
Gamwell sees echoes of Mitchell’s dark stars, for instance, in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “A Descent Into the Maelstrom,” particularly the evocative 1919 illustration by Harry Clarke. “This seemed to have been…
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The Human Genome Has Been Mapped In 4D
The Human Genome Project was completed a little over twenty years ago. Now, scientists involved in the 4D Nucleome Project have created a detailed map that not only showcases the human genome in 3D, but reveals how different components of the…
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