Greenland’s Polar Bears can Survive on astoundingly Small Sea Ice
“Pihoqahiak” means “ever-wandering one” in Inuit and refers to the polar bear, which is known to roam vast expanses of sea ice, sometimes plodding thousands…
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Heat Stress has Increased Dramatically in World’s Cities
According to new research, exposure to dangerous levels of heat and humidity in cities around the world has increased dramatically over the last three decades.…
For the First Time, Electronic Skin Anticipates and Feels Touch from Different Directions
Researchers from Dresden and Chemnitz have made significant advancements in the creation of sensitive electronic skin (e-skin) with built-in synthetic hairs. Electronic systems called “e-skins”…
Why Your Wedding Almost Certainly Broke the Speed of Sound
You would not think of a wedding (or a birthday, or any other type of event) as a logical setting for a physics experiment, but…
What Is the Current Population of Mars?
The Red Planet is practically seething with the pitter-patter of tiny robo wheels if you include rovers and landers in your population census. On Mars,…
Meet Victor Vescovo, the Deep Ocean Explorer Who Just Went To Space
Victor Vescovo was one of six members of Blue Origin’s New Shepherd-21 crew who went into space on June 4 for a suborbital journey. The…
JWST Got Hit By a Tiny Space Rock
The world’s most powerful space observatory confronts just one final threat: space rocks, after 14 torturous years of delays and surviving the white-knuckle anxiety of…
Internet Heavily Invested In Woman’s Quest to Unstick Her Bowls
Twitter has been extremely involved in solving a little scientific problem in the previous several days: how to get one woman’s bowls unstuck. While doing…
Energy Scientists Create Chameleon Metal, Which Imitates a Variety of Other Materials
An innovative tool that electrically changes one metal into behaving like another to be used as a catalyst for accelerating chemical reactions has been developed…
HD 164922 e – a Neptune-like Exoplanet
HD 164922 e is an exoplanet that resembles Neptune and orbits a G-type star. This Exoplanet revolves around the star HD 164922, which is 72…
A Tiny Robot in the Shape of a Fish “Swims” Around Collecting Microplastics
Nearly all areas of the planet have microplastics, which are dangerous to animals if consumed. But once they find their way into the crevices at…
Is Kombucha the Secret to Colonizing Mars?
Experimenters discovered that while Martian circumstances are unforgiving to kombucha cultures, a bacterium species inside the culture survives and maintains its potential to manufacture cellulose.…
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