No frostbite for dogs
When playful pups skid across an icy pond or romp in a snowdrift, their paws plunge into frosty places. If…
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Electronic skin
James Bond and his enemies would be interested in the goings-on at the laboratory of John Rogers. So would…
Introducing silicene
Electronics engineers are constantly seeking the next great thing, the supermaterial that will allow for devices even smaller and faster…
Better boarding
Slow boarding annoyed Jason Steffen. but rather than complain about it, like most of us would, the Fermilab astrophysicist took…
Self-cleaning clothes
Cleaning clothes usually requires soap and water to remove stains and smells, and a tumble in the dryer or an…
Searching for underground water, from the sky
Keeping track of water makes for tricky science. It drains through soil, slips through cracks in rocks and refills underwater…
What a dream looks like
The ability to take a picture of a dream sounds like something that’s possible only in a dream, but a team…
The secret songs of giant beavers
Giant beavers, which vanished from North America about 10,000 years ago, had a secret in their heads: a long compartment…
Double sunsets on a distant world
If you were stranded on a recently discovered planet called Kepler-16b and looked up during the day, you’d see an…
Robots invent their own language
Australian scientists have invented a new breed of robots called Lingodroids, programmed to make, use, and share language. The bots can…