Crowds cheer as India launches a lander and rover to explore the moon’s south pole

Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, blasts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, Friday, July 14, 2023. The Indian spacecraft blazed its…

UN rights council calls for AI transparency

An explosion in generative AI content since ChatGPT launched late last year has left authorities scrambling to figure out how to regulate such chatbots. The UN Human Rights Council on…

How infection rates changed on the day a lockdown or similar measure was introduced

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Using an approach based on computer vision technology, researchers can work back from COVID-19 mortality data to see how infection rates changed on the day a…

A revolutionary, nature-inspired soft embracing robotic gripper

ROSE can pick up a wide variety of objects with ease. The top-left image shows it grasping a coffee can, whereas the bottom images show it successfully picking up a…

Global metric developed for the design of dexterous robots

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A collaborative project by researchers from Kings College London (KCL), University College London (UCL) and Moorfields Eye Hospital has defined the design and application of robots…

Uncovering spin ladders in real chemical compounds

Researchers propose novel strategy to stabilize zinc-ion batteries

The schematic illustration of Zn plating behavior with (left) and without (right) Ser additive. Credit: Li Zhaoqian Researchers led by Prof. Hu Linhua from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science…

Study offers a broader approach to quantum walks

What’s in a word? The US discourse on loss and damage

Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events In the world of climate diplomacy, words matter a lot.…

New ALICE results shed light on the nature of gluonic matter at the Large Hadron Collider

Illustration of an ultra-peripheral collision where the two lead ion beams at the LHC pass by close to each other without colliding. Photons emitted from one beam strike the other,…