EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous ...

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Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months.

Two or more satellites could communicate and manoeuvre around one another using magnetic fields, although getting the technique to work at scale in space might be tricky ...

Using a magnet to connect the transmitting and receiving coils, electrons behave more consistently and the phone is less ...

As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects ...

In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves into invisible “hands” that can lift, push, and rotate objects without a ...

Scientists found a new way to track falling space debris using earthquake sensors, helping improve safety and response time.

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Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

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