Archaeologists from the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and the Xiangyang Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, have uncovered a large cemetery from the Warring States…
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What the climate of Arrakis can tell us about the hunt for habitable exoplanets
Credit: BFA / Warner Bros Frank Herbert’s Dune is epic sci-fi storytelling with an environmental message at its heart. The novels and movies are set on the desert planet of…
A skating, tri-pedal robot capable of highly stable locomotion
Adam Hung and Prof. Talia Moore deploy the SKOOTR robot outdoors. Credit: Hung, Adu & Moore. Researchers at University of Michigan recently developed SKOOTR, a tri-pedal skating robot that can…
Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device
Photo of person’s neck with the device—a black adhesive square—attached outside the throat. Credit: Jun Chen Lab/UCLA People with voice disorders, including those with pathological vocal cord conditions or who…
Our survey of the sky is uncovering the secrets of how planets are born
Discs giving birth to new planets, seen by the Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/C. Ginski, A. Garufi, P.-G. Valegård et al. When we look out to the stars, it is…
A blood test for colon cancer performed well in a study, expanding options for screening
by Carla K. Johnson This image provided by Guardant Health in March 2024, shows packaging for their colon cancer blood test, Shield. According to a study published Wednesday, March 13,…
Prosecutors urge 40-50 years for crypto fraudster Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried admitted during trial he had made ‘mistakes’ but denied that he had ever tried to defraud anyone. US prosecutors have requested that a court sentence disgraced crypto mogul…
Research finds not placing a drain improves distal pancreatectomy outcomes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Research led by Amsterdam UMC across 10 Dutch hospitals and two Italian hospitals has found that not placing a drain during surgery improves outcomes in patients…
Digestive problems in ‘long COVID’ linked to psychological trauma, according research
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 when the virus arrived in spring 2020 experienced a high rate of gastrointestinal problems and psychological trauma more than…
Flexible sensors with zero Poisson’s ratio
The ZPR structure is constructed by combining concave structures (green) and hexagonal structures (purple) in elaborately designed position, while strain concentration structure (orange) is embedded in the middle of hexagonal…
