This robot’s parts are helpless alone, but turn smart as they team up
When you imagine a robot, you might picture R2-D2 in Star Wars, the Omnidroid from The Incredibles or the big-armed machines that build cars…
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When you imagine a robot, you might picture R2-D2 in Star Wars, the Omnidroid from The Incredibles or the big-armed machines that build cars…
Every year, the Joint Mathematics Meeting brings more than 5,000 math lovers together. It’s the largest math meeting in the…
Climate and weather are related — but not the same. Climate describes patterns of weather in an area over long stretches of…
The sun hurls giant plasma cannonballs at the Earth. What’s the worst that can happen? In the darkest hours of…
November is election time, and not only for voters in the United States. On November 16, hundreds of scientists will…
Around the world, rising seas pose a major threat to coastal communities. Flooding will likely become worse, damaging buildings where…
Armies of zombie computers caused a lot of mayhem in 2018. In January, one cluster of infected, connected machines attacked…
As wildfires grow in number and intensity, scientists look for the fingerprints of global warming The biggest fire in California…
In late 2013, something big and strange showed up in the Gulf of Alaska. Scientists called it “the Blob.” It…
Inspiration often comes from unusual sources. Nelson Sepúlveda knows this firsthand. He got his big idea for a new source…