[ad_1] A robotic hand can manipulate complicated objects such as toy planes and Rubik’s cubes without dropping them, thanks to a sophisticated computer algorithm. Haozhi Qi at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues say their system, called RotateIt, works better than previous ones because it can rotate objects in three axes. Qi began […]
[ad_1] Cats often purr when they are being stroked Impact Photography/Shutterstock Scientists have struggled to understand how cats produce a low-pitched rumbling sound when they purr, but a new study sheds some light on the mystery. The type of sound an animal makes is typically linked to the size of its vocal folds, says Christian […]
[ad_1] Artist’s impression of quantum entanglement between two top quarks CERN The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is best known for smashing particles together at high speed, but now this huge machine has been used for a more delicate experiment – investigating quantum entanglement. The results, demonstrating entanglement between two subatomic particles called quarks, are the […]
[ad_1] Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach The 2023 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for their work on generating ultra-short pulses of light to study how electrons move through matter. Anne L’Huillier at Lund University in Sweden, who is only […]
[ad_1] As the moon orbits Earth, it can pass through the long tail of Earth’s magnetic field, which seems to create water on the lunar surface sondem/Alamy Electrons from Earth’s magnetic field may help to form water on the lunar surface during a full moon – although whether astronauts could harvest enough to drink it […]
[ad_1] The ATLAS detector at CERN Claudia Marcelloni and Max Brice/CERN Researchers have measured the strong force, which binds together the particles that make up protons and neutrons, to the highest degree of precision ever. Despite being the most powerful of all the fundamental forces of nature, its strength is more uncertain than any of […]
[ad_1] Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach Two scientists whose work led to the mRNA vaccines against covid-19 have been awarded the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded the prize for their work on […]
[ad_1] Terry Pratchett … Inimitable. Getty Images Welcome to our round-up of the science fiction to look forward to in October. In a pile on my desk at home, ready for me to tear into them once I get a minute, are two of the books I mention below as ones I am particularly excited […]
[ad_1] Filtered photos of the sun during an eclipse reveal stunning colours S. Habbal/M. Druckmüller/Nasa IN AUGUST 2017, scientists sailed a boat off South Carolina equipped with a weather balloon. The plan was to float it above the clouds for a guaranteed view of an impending total solar eclipse. Then, a terrible storm struck. “They […]
[ad_1] Trail of BlueWalker 3 crossing the night sky, taken from a backyard in Tucson, Arizona A. Block/IAU CPS A prototype satellite for a proposed space-based mobile phone network is brighter than all but seven stars in the night sky. The satellite and others like it could force ground-based telescopes to either track and dodge […]