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This robot has everything: near-perfect cleaning capabilities (including floors, walls, and waterline), a powerful battery with six hours of charge under the water, AI-powered debris detection, and a solid mobile app. It also has the ability to skim the surface …
Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets. But — until now — they’ve never been definitively spotted on Pluto, even though the icy world has all the ingredients necessary for their formation. Images …
On Friday China made a giant leap in its ongoing effort to be a dominant player in 21st-century spaceflight by successfully launching and recovering the first stage of its Long March 10B orbital rocket on that vehicle’s maiden flight. The …
The popular image of paleontology is a scientist in shorts and a wide-brimmed hat, dramatically uncovering a magnificent, intact skeleton from desert sands. The reality is that most prehistoric remains are isolated. A tooth here. A phalanx there. But to …
Is What Is Life? still as impactful today? A scientist is supposed to write within his field of expertise as a matter of noblesse oblige, writes Erwin Schrödinger, one of the architects of modern quantum science, in his 1944 book …
Machine learning is giving scientists a powerful new way to search for superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with zero resistance. An international team has demonstrated that AI can rapidly narrow an almost limitless number of possible material combinations to identify …
Scientists have found evidence that gravitational waves from a spectacular black hole collision carry signals from the very edge of the newly formed black hole. If confirmed by future observations, the discovery could provide an entirely new way to investigate …
A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves and navigate terrain that would leave old rovers stuck in the lunar or Martian dust. The Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain …
Somewhere right now, in a windowless hall packed with humming server cabinets, a building is breathing. Cold outside air gets pulled in through louvered vents, washes over rows of processors running hot, and leaves warmer at the other end. No …