Columbia Engineers design a robot hand that is the first device of its kind to join advanced sense of touch with motor-learning algorithms — it doesn't rely on vision to manipulate objectsThink about what you do with your hands when you're home at night pushing buttons on your TV's remote control, or at a restaurant using all kinds of cutlery...

The profile-forming research cluster attempts to understand systems in which the units interact directly with each other and continuously react to each other and the environment. Nature is often a model for such processes in economics, psychology and technology.Nature shows us many phenomena that can be successfully described, analyzed and modeled ...

 28 November, the research vessel Polarstern set off from Cape Town for a special region: Two expeditions in East Antarctica will focus on the history of the instability of the ice sheet there and its interactions with ocean circulation. On the first leg, which will last around two months and be led by GEOMAR, the main focus will be on oceanog...

 Bat numbers declined as Britain's trees were felled for shipbuilding in the early colonial period, new research shows.The study, by the University of Exeter and the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), found Britain's Western barbastelle bat populations have dropped by 99% over several hundred years.Animals' DNA can be analysed to discover a "signat...

 The welfare of carnivores in zoos is enhanced when improvements are made to their enclosures, a study suggests.Nottingham Trent University research revealed how carnivores became significantly more active and engaged more with their enclosures when given additional enrichment such as different types of feeding, new structures, the introductio...

 Research at Real-Time Systems Laboratory covers the dependability and timeliness of distributed systems. We conduct research into dependability attributes such as safety, reliability, availability, and integrity. The latter two are also hallmarks of security.Dependable systems are those for which reliance on the system's services is justified...

Priority, if we talk about priorities we can think about many things that are our priorities like family, money, health, education, relations, food, etc, there isn't any end to priorities, we can keep on discussing our priorities. But if we go deep into the beginning of our lives, education is the most important priority for everyone. Although it w...

 In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean. Each blob is twice the size of the Moon and likely composed of different proportions of elements than the mantle surrounding it...

 Hurricanes are more intense. Coastal populations are growing. Increased probability of flooding due to higher storm surges and rainfall is heightening the risk for catastrophic damage to the human and built environments in the path of these killer events. Against the backdrop of these complex challenges, FIU scientists are conducting hurrican...

 Astronomers anticipate upcoming images of the Andromeda galaxy may hold vital cluesAlthough dark matter makes up 27% of the universe, astronomers have been unable to observe it directly.Now, in a new study, an international team of researchers including Northwestern University astrophysicists has found that upcoming images from NASA's Nancy G...

 Fossils of a new group of animal predators have been located in the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality in North Greenland. These large worms may be some of the earliest carnivorous animals to have colonised the water column more than 518 million years ago, revealing a past dynasty of predators that scientists didn't know existed.The...

 Research has found marine heatwaves are affecting the breeding, diet and population size of little penguins along Western Australia's coast.The study, published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, used data from 1986 to 2019 to investigate the impacts of marine heatwaves on breeding outcomes, body condition, diet composition, population size a...

 A bright dome of light pierced the night. As the light grew brighter and larger, it rose into the sky, taking the shape of a rocket dashing into space, a trail of exhaust left to mark its path."Liftoff," shouted Zach Muraskin, a senior studying physics at Carnegie Mellon University and the science team lead for Iris, a rover bound for the moo...

 "There are places on Earth that we still haven't explored," said Matthew Siegfried, assistant professor of geophysics at Colorado School of Mines and a lead author of the paper, published March 9 in Geology. "We have now one sample trying to understand an environment that is one and a half times the size of the continental United States."Sinc...

 Using a new technique, researchers at the University of Basel have succeeded in cooling a small membrane down to temperatures close to absolute zero using only laser light. Such extremely cooled membranes could, for instance, find applications in highly sensitive sensors.As long as 400 years ago, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler came up ...

Researchers have completed Phase One of a U.S. Space Force project looking at the feasibility of updating software on orbiting satellites.We've all heard that we should "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" to save the planet, but what about applying any of the "three R's" to space?Researchers at USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) are tackling t...

 The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory successfully produced its first X-rays Sept. 14, and researchers around the world are already lined up to kick off an ambitious science program.The upgrade, called LCLS-II, creates unparalle...

 Donor-supported initiative leverages research excellence at UCalgary and universities of Alberta and LethbridgeSome of the tiniest particles of matter in the universe — from quarks to neutrinos to atoms and molecules — hold the power to fuel major scientific breakthroughs to positively transform the human condition.An understanding of these s...

 Barley is one of the world's most widely-cultivated cereals. To improve hardiness, yield, or other desired traits, barley breeders cross different varieties to enrich beneficial genes. This is achieved through a process known as homologous recombination, which results in genetic diversity through the exchange of materials between chromosomes....

 POLITO hosted in hybrid mode at the Energy Center Auditorium the M31 consortium meeting of the PRELUDE project – Prescient building Operation utilizing Real Time data for Energy Dynamic Optimization – that received funds from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement N° 958345 (Call identifier: ...