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Structuring and polishing hard material components with laser pulses in a single clamping operation
High-energy pulses lasting just a few picoseconds vaporize the material during UKP structuring. In the second step, the laser, now running with different parameters, melts the top 0.2–2 µm of…
Child Abuse Leaves Lasting Biological Scars on the Brain and DNA
Summary: New research reveals that child maltreatment leaves measurable biological “scars” on DNA, altering brain structure and function. Using a genome-wide epigenetic analysis, scientists identified four key methylation sites—ATE1, SERPINB9P1,…
The vulnerabilities that drive prolonged outages during extreme weather events and how to reduce disruptions
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, winter storms, and tornadoes, have become a major cause of large-scale electric power outages in recent years, causing billions of…
Why Your Brain and Mine Agree on What We See
Summary: A new study reveals how uniquely wired human brains can perceive the world in strikingly similar ways. Researchers recorded live neural activity in epilepsy patients and found that while…
‘Metabots’ shapeshift from flat sheets into hundreds of structures
Researchers have created a class of robots made from thin sheets of material connected into sheets that can snap into any of hundreds of stable shapes, allowing them to execute…
Feeling the Music: Touch Amplifies Emotional Power of Sound
Summary: A new study shows that combining touch with hearing profoundly intensifies emotional responses to music. Using a custom-built device that transforms sound into tactile vibrations, researchers found that people…
Low-power MoS₂-based microwave transmitter could advance communications
Optical photograph of 2D phased array transmitters fabricated on a four-inch monolayer MoS2 wafer. The wafer contains a total of 30 2D transmitters. Credit: Wu et al. (Nature Electronics, 2025).…
Robot ‘backpack’ drone launches, drives and flies to tackle emergencies
Credit: California Institute of Technology Introducing X1: The world’s first multirobot system that integrates a humanoid robot with a transforming drone that can launch off the humanoid’s back, and later,…
