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- 'Hedgehog' robots hop, tumble in microgravity
- Scientists use Instagram data to forecast top models at New York Fashion Week
- Huddling rats behave as a 'super-organism'
- 'Littlest' quark-gluon plasma produced: State of matter thought to have existed at birth of the universe
- Microscopic animals inspire innovative glass research
- Not on my watch: Chimp swats film crew’s drone
- Magnetic 'wormhole' connecting two regions of space created for the first time
- To email or not to email? For those in love, it's better than leaving a voice message
| 'Hedgehog' robots hop, tumble in microgravity Posted: 03 Sep 2015 02:21 PM PDT Hopping, tumbling and flipping over are not typical maneuvers you would expect from a spacecraft exploring other worlds. Traditional Mars rovers, for example, roll around on wheels, and they can't operate upside-down. But on a small body, such as an asteroid or a comet, the low-gravity conditions and rough surfaces make traditional driving all the more hazardous. Enter Hedgehog: a new concept for a robot that is specifically designed to overcome the challenges of traversing small bodies. |
| Scientists use Instagram data to forecast top models at New York Fashion Week Posted: 03 Sep 2015 11:46 AM PDT Researchers have predicted the popularity of new faces to the world of fashion modeling with over 80 percent accuracy using advanced computational methods and data from Instagram. |
| Huddling rats behave as a 'super-organism' Posted: 03 Sep 2015 11:46 AM PDT Rodents huddle together when it is cold, they separate when it is warm, and at moderate temperatures they cycle between the warm center and the cold edges of the group. |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2015 10:17 AM PDT Researchers have produced quark-gluon plasma -- a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the universe -- with fewer particles than previously thought possible. |
| Microscopic animals inspire innovative glass research Posted: 03 Sep 2015 10:15 AM PDT When researchers set about to explain unusual peaks in what should have been featureless optical data, they thought there was a problem in their calculations. In fact, what they were seeing was real. The peaks were an indication of molecular order in a material thought to be entirely amorphous and random: their experiments had produced a new kind of glass. |
| Not on my watch: Chimp swats film crew’s drone Posted: 03 Sep 2015 07:38 AM PDT Cool. Calm. And oh, so calculated. That's how a chimpanzee living in the Royal Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands set out to swat an aerial drone that was filming her group. Biologists explain it as yet another example of chimpanzees' make-do attitude to using whatever is on hand as tools. |
| Magnetic 'wormhole' connecting two regions of space created for the first time Posted: 03 Sep 2015 05:15 AM PDT "Wormholes" are cosmic tunnels that can connect two distant regions of the universe, and have been popularized by the dissemination of theoretical physics and by works of science fiction like Stargate, Star Trek or, more recently, Interstellar. Using present-day technology it would be impossible to create a gravitational wormhole, as the field would have to be manipulated with huge amounts of gravitational energy, which no one yet knows how to generate. In electromagnetism, however, advances in metamaterials and invisibility have allowed researchers to put forward several designs to achieve this. |
| To email or not to email? For those in love, it's better than leaving a voice message Posted: 01 Sep 2015 11:07 AM PDT In this digital age, an email can be more effective in expressing romantic feelings than leaving a voicemail message, a study study concludes. |
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