As is clear to anyone who has played with blocks, piles of cubes can occupy every last niche of a space. As for other objects that can’t be arranged to fill a space completely, such as cylinders and ...

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A novel method for creating light-manipulating patterns inside photonic crystals–materials that transmit and reflect specific wavelengths of light–could hasten the arrival of a new generation of ...

Building a robot that could pick up delicate objects like eggs or blueberries without crushing them took lots of control algorithms that process feeds from advanced vision systems or sensors that ...

08:53, Fri, May 17, 2024 Updated: 09:00, Fri, May 17, 2024 Scientists have made a huge breakthrough after discovering that alien plants may be using the stars in the Milky Way to generate power.

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In your childhood days, you must have tried sending a disk-shaped stone to skip across the surface of the water multiple times. Researchers now reveal why is it so easy to get such impressive ...

It is not common for a rover to spot nearly perfect spheres in the soil beneath its wheels. Over two decades ago, the Opportunity rover famously discovered spherules made of hematite (nicknamed ...

Ancient extraterrestrial civilizations, millions of years older than humanity, would need enormous amounts of energy. By creating a swarm of satellites in a spherical shell, they could harness much of ...