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Future Floods: Global Warming Intensifies Heavy Rain — Even More Than…
The intensity and frequency of extreme rainfall increases exponentially with global warming, a new study finds.…
Are Consumers Ready for Robots to Show Up at Their Doorstep?
With Amazon aiming to make 10,000 deliveries with drones in Europe this year and Walmart planning to expand its…
Solar Activity Likely to Peak Next Year
Researchers at the Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India at IISER Kolkata have discovered a new…
How Shifting Climates May Have Shaped Early Elephants’ Trunks
Researchers have provided new insights into how ancestral elephants developed their dextrous trunks.
The study,…
Exhaustion Caused by Video Conferencing Demonstrated on a Neurophysiological Level
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase in virtual interactions has created a new challenge: fatigue caused…
First Multi-Chamber Heart Organoids Unravel Human Heart Development and Disease
Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no…
Understanding Subjective Beliefs Could Be Vital to Tailoring More Effective…
Taking into account whether people believe they are receiving a real treatment or a fake one (placebo) could…
How Do You Make a Robot Smarter? Program It to Know What It Doesn’t Know
Modern robots know how to sense their environment and respond to language, but what they don't know is often more…
How Tiny Hinges Bend the Infection-Spreading Spikes of a Coronavirus
A coronavirus uses protein "spikes" to grab and infect cells. Despite their name, those spikes aren't stiff and…
Building Blocks for Life Could Have Formed Near New Stars and Planets
While life on Earth is relatively new, geologically speaking, the ingredients that combined to form it might be…