The machine only needs constant airflow to move on its own. Credit: Getty Images / Patricia Marroquin Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Engineers have harnessed the physics behind the flailing tube men to power a tiny soft ârobotâ capable of walking, hopping, and swimming. Plus their motion mechanism doesnâtContinue Reading
Main Natural programmable enzymes have transformed our ability to study and treat complex diseases. The application and engineering of RNA-guided systems, most notably clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)âCas9, has accelerated genetic screening methods to discover the genetic basis of diseases, enabled the generation of precision cellular and animalContinue Reading
A new genus and species of zhelestid mammal has been identified from the fossilized remains found in the Bayanshiree Formation in Mongoliaâs Gobi Desert. Life reconstruction of Ravjaa ishiii (foreground), depicted on the foot of the hadrosaurid dinosaur Gobihadros. Image credit: Kohei Futaka. Named Ravjaa ishiii, the new species roamedContinue Reading
It’s notable when a scientific study reaches the decade mark, but when the topic is the healthy aging of people who have lived 10 times as long, it just means there’s still a lot more to learn. This month, researchers participating in the Cilento Initiative on Aging Outcomes or CIAOContinue Reading
“Anybody home?” A curious young lion plays with a tortoise in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana.  Credit: Jens Cullmann Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ âItâs been over two decades since I first witnessed a dipper darting through a waterfall,â photographer Konrad Wothe says. âThe small passerine bird was flyingContinue Reading
Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ North of Crested Butte, Colorado sits Gothic, an abandoned silver mining town established in the 1870s. The unincorporated town is the only outpost of civilization in the valleys and mountains between Crested Butte and Aspen. When silver ran thin and miners deserted the area,Continue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Can you explain the concept of a river as a living being? At the heart of the book is the idea that rivers have lives, deaths ââ and even rights. It asks readers to imagine rivers in these terms, and toContinue Reading
Polynomials were first conceived by the Babylonians around 1800 BCE. Credit: Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Most peopleâs experiences with polynomial equations donât extend much further than high school algebra and the quadratic formula. Still, these numeric puzzles remain a foundational component of everything from calculating planetaryContinue Reading
Deep ALMA observations of 12CO emission from fifteen protoplanetary disks reveal a stunning range of structures in the gas morphology including gaps, rings and spirals. Credit: Richard Teague / exoALMA Collaboration Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Our solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old, but countless planetary neighborhoodsContinue Reading
A fringe-lipped bat approaches a Fitzinger’s robber frog in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract females, and uses these frog calls to detect, assess, and localize its prey. CREDIT: (c) Merlin Tuttle. Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ To avoidContinue Reading
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