Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots Students recently unveiled their invention of a robotic actuator -- the 'muscle' that converts energy into a robot's physical movement -- that has the ability to detect punctures or pressure, heal the injury and repair its damage-detecting 'skin.' Live coverage: West Coast Falcon 9 to launch 27 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink internet service The mission will the 25th flight of the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number 1071. SpaceX is targeting liftoff from pad 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:10 p.m. PDT (4:10 p.m. EDT, 2010 UTC). U.S. just radically changed its COVID vaccine recommendations: How will it affect you? As promised, federal health officials this week dropped longstanding recommendations that healthy children and healthy pregnant women should get the COVID-19 vaccines. |
Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut the Ecosystems Mission Area and Much of Its Work From bee science to understanding the impact of a warming world on plant life, here’s what the Ecosystems Mission Area does. Beyond space station: Shukla’s on-ground research aims for habitats on Mars BENGALURU: As Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla prepares for his historic flight to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Axiom-4 Mission (Ax-4) . Potential discovery of new dwarf planet adds wrinkle to Planet Nine theory Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the existence of a theoretical Planet Nine. Different kinds of mindfulness may fight different kinds of anxiety Researchers argue that, when it comes to mindfulness to help ease anxiety, we should ditch a one-size-fits-all approach. |