Dec 13, 2021 (Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers from ten countries led by Michael Kramer from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has conducted a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity with some of the most rigorous tests yet. Their...
Super-bright stellar explosion is likely a dying star giving birth to a black hole or neutron star (w/video)
Dec 13, 2021 (Nanowerk News) In June of 2018, telescopes around the world picked up a brilliant blue flash from the spiral arm of a galaxy 200 million light years away. The powerful burst appeared at first to be a supernova, though it was much faster and far brighter than...
Technique speeds up thermal actuation for soft robotics
Dec 13, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from North Carolina State University have come up with a new design for thermal actuators, which can be used to create rapid movement in soft robotic devices. “Using thermal actuation is not new for soft robots, but the biggest challenge for soft thermal actuators...
Discovery of ‘split’ photon provides a new way to see light
Dec 13, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split photons may also exist, according to a study from Dartmouth and SUNY Polytechnic Institute researchers. The finding that the building...
Human-like brain helps robot out of a maze (w/video)
Dec 13, 2021 (Nanowerk News) A maze is a popular device among psychologists to assess the learning capacity of mice or rats. But how about robots? Can they learn to successfully navigate the twists and turns of a labyrinth? Now, researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and the...