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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7626223/Chameleon-inspired-robot-tongue-catch-live-insect-just-120-milliseconds.html Scientists have developed a robot tongue that can catch bugs. This is critical for future androids to pass uncanny valley and become believable companions for us...

NASA rover "Opportunity" was laid to rest on Tuesday night as attempts to make contact with the long-lived, space explorer wrapped up. Eight months ago, a ferocious, fast-moving Martian dust storm is thought to have covered the solar panels on the rover and cutoff the vital supply of sunlight...

IEEE Spectrum reports that researchers from UC Berkeley are working on a drone that's physically smaller than a penny, and weights just 67 milligrams (which, according to WolframAlpha, is about the weight of a "typical large sand grain.") The tiny drone has its own IMU, and uses a set of 4 ion...

The Los Alamos National Lab is studying how to deflect asteroids out of their orbital paths by crashing a spacecraft into it. This testing is being done to learn how to prevent an asteroid strike against Earth. A spacecraft named DART will be tested on asteroid Didymoon to see if crashing the...

Pictures of the water ice in the Korolev crater on Mars have been released by the European Space Agency. The icy interior of the crater is maintained by a phenomenon know as an 'ice trap'. This occurs naturally when "the air moving over the deposit of ice cools down and sinks, creating a layer...

Eccentric scientists gathered in Tokyo to see which would take home the Ig Nobel Prize or "anti-Nobels" award for eccentric inventions which are designed to make people smile and think. One of the winners was for a Self-Colonoscopy study which was meant to promote better health in Japan as many...

The Register is reporting that Nvidia's Volta based flagship, the Titan V, may have some hardware gremlins that cause them to give different answers to repeated scientific calculations. One engineer told The Register that when running identical simulations of an interaction between a protein and...

A student at the University of Oxford managed to take a photo of a single floating atom with an ordinary camera. PhD candidate David Nadlinger used long exposure to capture the image of a single strontium atom illuminated by a laser while suspended in an ion trap. The photo win David the top...

It is being reported by ScienceDaily that scientists at Arizona State University, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully programmed nanorobots to shrink tumors by cutting off their...

A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan finds that spending too much time in dimly lit rooms and offices may actually change the brain’s structure and hurt one’s ability to remember and learn. After studying the brains of Nile grass rats ,they found that being exposed to dim...

A new study finds that close friends' brains react similarly to spontaneous stimuli. Researchers at the Dartmouth College said they can predict how close two people are based solely on their brain activity in response to a series of unfamiliar video clips. To test the theory that people may...

Scientists have apparently developed a method of converting human waste into a potential food source that could be used by astronauts on missions to Mars and beyond. Using anaerobic digestion, microbes to break down solid and liquid waste, they created the protein and fat-rich substance. Ew. I...

Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have designed and patented a new propellantless system for satellites that allows generation of electric power and on-board thrust. Via electromagnetism, the tether can generate power passively...

About a dozen organizations are joining in a collective effort to create detailed 3D scanns of more than 20,000 animals. Starting well over 20 years ago, a University of Washington biologist by the name of Adam summers decided to try and scan every fish in the ocean. With funding of about $2.5...

Instead of heading to that morning presentation by your recently appointed CTO, you try to figure out ways to avoid the meeting. Guess what, there is a reasoning for your lackadaisical behavior towards the boring Power Point presentation coming your way. It turns out that if slides were less...

http://boinc.gridcomputingcenter.org/ On top of running the NCI applications from GoofyxGrid, it appears that they are now testing some cryptocoin generation options to fill the place of BitoinUtopia. Apparently you will be able to mine XMR from the project if you opt in. Currently only AMD...

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed 3-D printing technology that may lead to discoveries in facilitating fertility for survivors of cancer. Many young cancer patients become sterilized from the life saving treatments they receive. Using test mice as subjects, the all female...