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(Phys.org)--A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China has, according to a report in Newscientist, found a way to mimic, if only in a small way, the shape shifting robot in the Terminator movies. The team has ...

Researchers from Cornell University have synthesized a new thin-film catalyst for use in fuel cells. In a paper published March 10 in the journal APL Materials, from AIP Publishing, the team reports the first-ever epitax...

A new view of California's earthquake risk slightly raises the likelihood of big earthquakes in the Golden State, but lowers the chance that people in some regions will feel shaking from smaller magnitude-6.7 quakes.

With its delicate touch, created by new soft gripper technology, Empire Robotics' "Versaball" robot is out to make grasping tasks easier for automation, prosthetics and space robotics. You'd probably get very drunk playi...

Long before they shared the landscape with modern humans, Neanderthals in Europe developed a sharp sense of style, wearing eagle claws as jewelry, new evidence suggests.

As much as we know about the white stuff that has blanketed much of the U.S. this winter, the sound that snow makes when trod underfoot remains something of a mystery --

Researchers create autonomously mobile, interacting beads out of water and food coloring—and set them to work --

DESPITE being Earth's nearest neighbour, the Moon has been a lonely place for the past three decades. Space probes have voyaged to the outer solar system, rovers have landed on Mars and orbiting telescopes have discovere...

We see a lot futuristic concept sketches from architects. Spiraling Japanese ocean cities; skylines like dinosaur eggs on golf tees; or a Paris of 2050 dotted with algae bioreactors and jellyfish-inspired bridges....

A 480-million-year-old fossil is giving paleontologists new insights into a sea monsterlike creature called an anomalocaridid, which is an ancestor of modern-day arthropods such as lobsters and scorpions, a new study fin...

A remarkably well-preserved fossil of 480-million-year-old sea monster is helping researchers understand the evolution of arthropods.

All the latest on newscientist.com: nicotine's link to hard drugs, chameleons' colour-change trick understood, bird flu returns, and more

NASA's four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft are set to launch so they can study how Earth's magnetosphere interacts with the sun's

A puzzling observation, pursued through hundreds of experiments, has led Stanford researchers to a simple yet profound discovery: under certain circumstances, droplets of fluid will move like performers in a dance choreo...

Dust from Saturn's rings shows Enceladus could have hydrothermal vents similar to those on Earth at the bottom of its ice-covered sea

Bird flu is breaking out in Egypt and invading the US, while a new strain in China is poised to spread across the world

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has a surprisingly warm inner world --

This week, panda parents Bai Yun and Gao Gao made their first breeding attempt since 2012.

In 1941, Russian physicist Andrey Kolmogorov developed a theory of turbulence that has served as the basic foundation for our understanding of this important naturally occurring phenomenon.

The remains of a baby woolly rhino that roamed the Earth at least 10,000 years ago have been discovered in a frozen riverbank in Siberia, researchers said.

A hunter and businessman stumbled across a rare find in a frozen riverbank in Siberia: The remarkably complete remains of a baby woolly rhino.

It's a family meal with a ghoulish difference: young velvet spiders feast on their mother to help them survive in the desert