A new type of all-terrain microbot that moves by tumbling could help usher in tiny machines for various applications. …read more Source:: Science
Day: February 14, 2018
Tissue paper sensors show promise for health care, entertainment, robotics
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•Engineers have turned tissue paper — similar to toilet tissue — into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other …read more Source:: Science
Dance of auroras: First direct observation of electron frolic
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•The shower of electrons bouncing across Earth’s magnetosphere — commonly known as the Northern Lights — has been directly observed for the first time by an international team of scientists. …read more Source:: Science
Rotating dusty gaseous donut around an active supermassive black hole
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•High resolution observations show a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black hole. The existence of such rotating donuts-shape structures was first suggested decades ago, but this is …read more Source:: Science
Alzheimer’s disease reversed in mouse model
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•Researchers have found that gradually depleting an enzyme called BACE1 completely reverses the formation of amyloid plaques in the brains of mice with Alzheimer’s disease, thereby improving the animals’ cognitive …read more Source:: Science