More than 400 underwater sites in the United States are potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO) — weapons that did not explode upon deployment, which continue to pose a safety concern.
Connor Hodges, a doctoral student at the…
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Empowering robots with human-like perception to navigate unwieldy terrain
The wealth of information provided by our senses that allows our brain to navigate the world around us is remarkable. Touch, smell, hearing, and a strong sense of balance are crucial to making it through what to us seem like easy environments…
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Remotely controlled robots at your fingertips: Enhancing safety in industrial sites
A research team led by Professor Keehoon Kim and Ph.D. candidate Jaehyun Park from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at POSTECH has developed a novel haptic device designed to enhance both safety and efficiency for workers in industrial…
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Nimble dimples: Agile underwater vehicles inspired by golf balls
Underwater or aerial vehicles with dimples like golf balls could be more efficient and maneuverable, a new prototype developed at the University of Michigan has demonstrated.
Golf ball dimples cut through pressure drag — the resistance force an…
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How to swim without a brain
Bacteria can do it, amoebas can do it, even blood cells can do it: they all have the ability to move in a goal oriented way in liquids. And they do so despite having extremely simple structures without a central control system (such as a brain)….
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Stars or numbers? How rating formats change consumer behavior
What’s the difference between a product rating of 3.5 displayed with stars versus standard numerals? It might very well be the difference between a 4 and a 3 rating in the eyes of the consumer, according to new marketing research from the Cornell…
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A ‘talking’ ape’s death signals the end of an era
Kanzi showed apes have the capacity for language, but in recent years scientists have questioned the ethics of ape experiments.
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MRI Gets a Nano-Sized Upgrade – Chemistry | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Conventional MRI scans, familiar to us from hospitals, have a resolution of around one-tenth of a millimeter, which allows them to image incredibly thin slices of our bodies, from head to toe, helping physicians diagnose a variety of medical…
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How We Enjoy Music, and How Much, is Heritable
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Back when I was a mohawked teenager, my mother was horrified by the music that…
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The ethereal fire of blue lava
Despite the name, blue lava is not actually molten lava, but rather an extremely rare natural phenomenon caused by the combustion of sulphuric gases emitted from certain volcanoes and fumarole vents.
Unlike the familiar warm red and orange hue in…
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