Surviving on blood alone is no picnic. Vampire bats are the only mammal known to feed exclusively on the stuff. They may have gained this ability by losing some genes,… Read More »Losing some genes may explain how vampire bats can live on blood
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency’s Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and… Read More »Ingenuity Mars Helicopter spots gear that helped Perseverance rover land
Researchers recently announced that they have engineered a new class of material, called a ‘polyzwitterionic complex,’ or ‘pZC,’ which is able to both withstand the harsh acidic conditions of the… Read More »A new polymer system to revolutionize the delivery of therapeutics
Physicists are re-examining the foundations of quantum physics from the perspective of momentum and exploring what happens when the momentum of light is reduced to zero. Go to Source Author:
A mechanical jumper is capable of achieving the tallest height — roughly 100 feet (30 meters) — of any jumper to date, engineered or biological. The feat represents a fresh… Read More »New device: Tallest height of any known jumper, engineered or biological