Watch 100 Grams of Robot Pull Nearly Two Tonnes of Car
A clever combo of ant- and gecko-inspired microbots achieved this impressive car-tugging feat.
A clever combo of ant- and gecko-inspired microbots achieved this impressive car-tugging feat.
These new batteries will shut down before they're about to catch fire and explode.
It's all to do with efficiency of space.
If you don't want to be tracked, you just turn off the GPS feature, right? Unfortunately, there is another way prying eyes can follow your movements: through your Android phone's battery.
Sanford Uni and DARPA simulate the little lizard's sticky grip with silicone.
It spits out sentences like "a group of young people playing a game of frisbee".
They say it could save lives, which makes sense, because fire.
The makers claim the gadget keeps tabs on your overall well-being by measuring heart rate and breathing patterns to monitor stress.
Apparently they just love to play with rhino dung.
The Concorde became the premiere transport across the Atlantic in part because it was precluded from flying over populated areas due to the sonic boom it created on takeoff. A new two-wing design, however, may hold the secret to silently breaking the sound barrier. Guile does not approve.
Stanford scientists have created designer electrons that behave as if they were exposed to a magnetic field of 60 Tesla—a force 30 percent stronger than anything ever sustained on Earth. The work could lead to a revolution in the materials that make everything from video displays to airplanes to mobile phones.
No, this isn't a closeup of a Cosby Sweater. Nor is it the result of those shrooms you ingested twenty minutes ago. It's actually science's newest means of mapping one of the Earth's wildest and most remote regions.
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