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A robot that uses magnetic fields to guide a flexible probe forwards might make colonoscopies less painful and easier to perform

Chemists have successfully used microwaves to convert plastic bags, milk bottles and other supermarket packaging to a clean source of hydrogen

Cameras mounted on earphones can monitor your facial expressions by the contours of your cheeks alone, which could be useful for importing facial expressions into virtual reality or lip reading

Riboswitches increase protein production in response to Fe²⁺

Work is set to begin within months on building "digital twins" of Earth to better predict the future of climate change, extreme weather and the environment

Trees grew near Yellowstone geyser during megadrought 800 years ago

US researchers develop a two-step test for the novel coronavirus that doesn’t requires the use of scare reagents

Ferrocene is a classic example of a discovery that was dismissed as a failed experiment

Atmospheric chemist’s work led to the phasing out of ozone-depleting substances

Magnetic flytrap

Haven’t we all felt like this fly—seemingly helpless while being whacked several times a second by a flappy-fingered flower? At work here is the research of a team of collaborators from Johannes Kepler University Linz and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf trying to make soft robots that can move quickly. Unlike robots that use tethered power sources to move, like a wire carrying electricity, this elastic flower is free-standing and closes and opens when the researchers... Читать дальше...

Non-aromatic dibenzihomoporphyrins synthesized