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Gecko feet inspire anti-slip shoe soles
Just add zirconia nanoparticles... Credit: V. Richhariya et al., 2025 It's the "hydrophilic capillary-enhanced adhesion"of…
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Boeing has now lost $2B on Starliner, but still silent on future plans
NASA plans to retire the International Space Station around 2030, so the opportunities are dwindling…
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Bonobos recognize when humans are ignorant, try to help
A lot of human society requires what's called a "theory of mind"—the ability to infer…
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Let us spray: River dolphins launch pee streams into air
According to Amazonian folklore, the area's male river dolphins are shapeshifters (encantade), transforming at night…
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Greenland’s glaciers are falling apart faster than expected
A new large-scale study of crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that those cracks…
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It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX’s Starship probe still has some bite
These actions followed pre-established protocols. However, it highlighted the small but non-zero risk of rocket…
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To help AIs understand the world, researchers put them in a robot
The third neural net was relatively simple and processed language using vectorized representations of those…
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Bogus research is undermining good science, slowing lifesaving research
In 2022, Byrne and colleagues, including two of us, found that suspect genetics research, despite…
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Seven cool science stories we almost missed this month
It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific…
Bennu asteroid samples yield watery history, key molecules for life
Until scientists were able to conduct a controlled sample return with a spacecraft and carefully…