I, robot -- and gardener: MIT droids tend plants
(AP) -- These gardeners would have green thumbs - if they had thumbs.
(AP) -- These gardeners would have green thumbs - if they had thumbs.
Robotics
Apr 10, 2009
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A team of engineers and public health experts from the University of South Florida is helping Toamasina, Madagascar, residents reduce their exposure to lead—a major global environmental pollutant that causes more than 1 ...
Environment
Nov 16, 2023
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Laden with dissolved salt, Antarctic waters can hover just above freezing and even dip below it. Temperatures this low would likely kill the animals that prosper in warmer waters further north. Yet, some creatures have found ...
Evolution
Oct 2, 2023
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A new paper provides insights on one of the most important factors in the Southern Oceanic carbon cycle, the "biological pump," where carbon is utilized by organisms at the surface and transferred to ocean depths, away from ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 27, 2023
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Deforestation has converted swaths of land in the southern Amazon region from rainforest to farmland. The uses of the deforested land are diverse, and activities can range from small-scale farming in rural settlements to ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 9, 2021
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Extensive sea ice covered the world's oceans during the last ice age, which prevented oxygen from penetrating into the deep ocean waters, complicating the relationship between oxygen and carbon, a new study has found.
Earth Sciences
Feb 2, 2021
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Most technologies today rely on devices that transport energy in the form of light, radio, or mechanical waves. However, these wave-guiding channels are susceptible to disorder and damage, either in manufacturing or after ...
General Physics
May 22, 2020
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In a single sneeze or a cough, as many as 40,000 tiny droplets are forcibly propelled from the mouth and nose into the air. Researchers from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have recently developed a method to collect ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 1, 2019
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at Beihang University in China has created a very tiny pump that is able to lift a drop of water without the use of any power source and move it to a higher location. In their paper published ...
(Phys.org) —Making clean drinking water globally accessible is one of the biggest challenges of this century. Yet a new study by Oxford University contends that this goal is achievable if the key elements of good governance ...
Environment
Oct 2, 2013
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