Imagine that a robot is helping you clean the dishes. You ask it to grab a soapy bowl out of the sink, but its gripper slightly misses the mark.
Using a new framework developed by MIT and NVIDIA researchers, you could…
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The Antarctic Ozone Hole Is Under Repair Thanks to Reduced CFCs
Learn about the ozone hole above Antarctica that is now confirmed to be shrinking due to reductions of harmful chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere.
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Melting permafrost is exposing whaling-ear graves on Svalbard
Whaling-era graves from the 17th and 18th centuries are being exposed as Svalbard’s permafrost melts due to climate change.
Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean.
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Lightening the load of augmented reality glasses
An international team of scientists developed augmented reality glasses with technology to receive images beamed from a projector, to resolve some of the existing limitations of such glasses, such as their weight and bulk. The team’s research is…
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Smart, energy-efficient robot grippers cut production costs
Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot technology that needs 90% less electricity than…
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Scientists develop open-source software for modeling soft materials
When mechanical and structural engineers design machines, bridges, and buildings, they calculate loads, stresses, and deformation of metal, steel, concrete, glass, wood, and plastic to find the optimal geometry that bears loads with the minimum…
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The einstein tile rocked mathematics. Meet its molecular cousin
For centuries, mathematicians and floor designers alike have been fascinated by the shapes that can tile a plane — in particular, those that do so without repetition.
Now, a team of chemists has described a molecule that naturally…
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Intense Storms Bring 16 Billion Tons of Snow to Greenland, Restoring Ice Sheet
Learn about the storm that brought 16 billion tons of snow to Greenland in March 2022, inspiring scientists to study the impact of atmospheric rivers on the Arctic.
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Print Edition 60 – Nautilus
Issue 60 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from January and February 2025 online. Our cover story is a deep dive into wolf reintroduction in the American Northwest—and what we did to the wolves to…
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CMU and MIT Join Forces to Combat Deepfake Threats
03/03/2025 Mallory Lindahl
Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), created CHARCHA ( Computer Human Assessment for Recreating Characters…
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