(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel nimbly over steep ...
Space Exploration
Feb 5, 2009
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Andre Britz pulled over his pick-up truck on a rocky mountain track to show off the nature-preserving powers of southern Africa's spekboom shrub.
Environment
Mar 7, 2024
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Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt took control of a series of robots in Germany while on board the International Space Station, zipping around the Earth at 28,000 kilometers per hour (17,500 mph.) Researchers want to understand ...
Space Exploration
Feb 5, 2024
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The wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) is the world's largest flying bird, with a wingspan reaching an incredible 3.5 meters. These birds are oceanic nomads: they spend most of their 60 years of life at sea and only come ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2024
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This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity's landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 17, 2024
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A rescue mission is under way in the Caribbean to save one of the world's largest—and rarest—frogs from extinction.
Plants & Animals
Oct 16, 2023
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Researchers from the UK Met Office, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, have developed an advanced terrain-smoothing technique that significantly improves the modeling of downslope windstorms. ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2023
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Scientists affiliated with the National Space Research Institute (INPE) in Brazil have combined models that predict urban expansion and land-use changes with hydrodynamic models to create a methodology capable of supplying ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2023
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A parasite believed to be present in more than 40 million people in the United States and often spread by domestic and wild cats could hamper ongoing conservation efforts in bighorn sheep.
Ecology
Jan 24, 2023
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Mountains are home to more than 85% of the world's amphibian, bird and mammal species. Lowland slopes are rich in animal and plant species. And rugged, high-elevation environments, although lacking such biological diversity, ...
Ecology
Jan 11, 2023
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