Researchers build world's smallest autonomous robots

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...
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Uranus and Neptune might be misclassified and their cores tell the story

For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been filed neatly into the “ice giant” drawer, shorthand for worlds built mostly from ...
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Scientists observe matter behaving between liquid and solid in a new phase

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

Are we the Martians? The intriguing idea that life on Earth began on the red planet

Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...