Category: 7. Science

Caltech engineers have developed a multimodal robot system — a humanoid robot with a transforming drone that launches off its back.

Sitting on the…

An astrophotographer has snapped a stunning shot of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS photobombing a distant galaxy in the night sky. The remarkable image, which also captured the comet’s multiple tails, is a reminder of the object’s…

Sierra Space has completed a series of pre-flight tests on its Dream Chaser spaceplane at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The testing campaign follows a change to its contract with NASA announced in September.  The changes…

Around 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity known as smelting. This monumental shift gave them a powerful new technology and may have marked…

The U.S. and China usually operate on two different wavelengths, but a recent occurrence in the world of space traffic control involved both countries working in unison, which turned more than a few heads. The event in question went down in…

A recent study investigates the role of sonic vibrations in improving pollination efficiency and fruit size in tomatoes. By simulating bee-like vibrations using non-contact sonication technology, the researchers found that sonic…