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Laying the ground for robotic strategies in environmental protection

With this motivation, a team of roboticists at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has developed a robot that can autonomously drive interlocking steel sheet piles into soil. The structures that it builds could function as retaining walls or check dams for erosion control. The study will be presented

Robots created with 3D printers could be caring for those in golden years: New design method to create soft robots

This trend comes with an increasing demand for caregivers capable of providing 24-hour care, not only at hospitals or nursing homes, but also at private homes and apartments.

New DNA 'shredder' technique goes beyond CRISPR's scissors

But sometimes, it takes more than scissors to do the job.

Just an hour of weekly walking staves off disability: All brisk walking, even short walks, help prevent disability in older adults with osteoarthritis

"This is less than 10 minutes a day for people to maintain their independence.

Rainfall changes for key crops predicted even with reduced greenhouse gas emissions

The study uses four emissions scenarios from low to high to predict time of emergence (TOE) of permanent precipitation changes, meaning the year by which precipitation changes remain permanently outside their historical variation in a specific location. The research shows that quick action on emissions -- in line with 2015's

Five new frog species from Madagascar

Madagascar, an island a little larger than mainland France, has more than 350 frog species.This number of recognized species is constantly rising, and many of the newly named species are very small.

Scientists discover first organism with chlorophyll genes that doesn't photosynthesize

The peculiar organism is dubbed 'corallicolid' because it is found in 70 per cent of corals around the world and may provide clues as to how to protect coral reefs in the future.

Wide variations in how well or poorly people age: United States ranks 54th between Iran (53rd) and Antigua and Barbuda (55th)

A 30-year gap separates countries with the highest and lowest ages at which people experience the health problems of a 65-year-old, according to a new scientific study.

VLA makes first direct image of key feature of powerful radio galaxies: Structure suggested by theorists decades ago

The scientists studied Cygnus A, a galaxy some 760 million light-years from Earth..

Nanomaterials give plants 'super' abilities

The researchers will present their results today at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2019 National Meeting Exposition.

Otherworldly mirror pools and mesmerizing landscapes discovered on ocean floor

"We discovered remarkable towers where every surface was occupied by some type of life..

Researchers tap rare pristine air to reveal pollution's impact

An international team of scientists led by Manish Shrivastava of the U.S.

How good are protein disorder prediction programs actually?

Unfortunately, it is challenging and time-consuming to characterie the structural propensities of polypeptides experimentally, and therefore bioinformatics methods for predicting protein disorder from sequence are indispensable. Over recent years many bioinformaticians have therefore constructed algorithms to differentiate peptide sequences that will fold from those that do not, and these algorithms

Bacterial factories could manufacture high-performance proteins for space missions

The researchers will present their results today at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2019 National Meeting Exposition.

Dark matter is not made up of tiny black holes

Scientists know that 85 per cent of the matter in the Universe is made up of dark matter.Its gravitational force prevents stars in our Milky Way from flying apart.