A group of researchers has developed WanderPal, a smart wearable device that could radically change the way people with severe visual impairments navigate cities. The device combines artificial intelligence and tactile feedback to…
A team of Brazilian researchers is uncovering promising results in the use of earwax to detect cancer at its earliest stages. According to scientists at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), earwax is…
Researchers at Rice and Utah universities have developed a new type of soft, multistable metamaterial capable of changing shape when exposed to magnetic fields and maintaining its new configuration even after the external…
German researchers have developed an innovative underwater robot with artificial intelligence that could transform the way we deal with marine pollution by collecting ocean debris with its giant four-fingered robotic hand. To tackle…
Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time — the interwoven fabric of space and time at the heart of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Space-time…
A team at Rice University has developed a strategy to magnify small segments of proteins within living cells. The method reveals subtle environmental changes that may signal the early stages of diseases such…
Archaeologists working at the Karahöyük site in Konya province, central Türkiye, have found a set of 3,500-year-old vessels consisting of a jar, a three-lobed spouted jug, and a plate. The find occurred during…
Imagine a child with eczema who scratches a patch of irritated skin. A tiny opening forms, invisible to the eye. Into that breach slips a common bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus. For many people, the…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News A new and powerful particle detector just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the ingredients of the early universe. The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at…
An international team, led by scientists from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences (MACN), unearthed near El Calafate the nearly complete skeleton of a giant relative of crocodiles, which they named Kostensuchus atrox….