Budapest — The CERN Council on Friday approved an update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics, setting out priorities for the next decades of research and confirming plans for a possible new collider. The…
Upper and lower plate controls on Tohoku-oki earthquake
Researchers at Tohoku University’s Department of Geophysics, have been studying the great Tohoku-oki earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011, to the east of Japan’s Honshu Island (Fig. 1). The earthquake, which registered with a…
Blind robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
Improved design may be used for exploring disaster zones and other dangerous or inaccessible environments. CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris,…
Study: oxygen loss in the coastal Baltic Sea…
The Baltic Sea is home to some of the world’s largest dead zones, areas of oxygen-starved waters where most marine animals can’t survive. But while parts of this sea have long suffered from low oxygen levels,…
WATCH: Near Earth Asteroid
We often hear from astronomers and other scientists about 'near-earth asteroids' - lumps of rock and metal that orbit through our Solar System, and pass close enough to our planet to pose an impact…