Novel technique manipulates water waves to precisely control floating objects
A team of international scientists co-led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a ...
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Technique to manipulate water waves to precisely control floating objects
Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a water tank to produce ...
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Scientists create ‘odd’ objects that adapt and move over obstacles
Advance in robot locomotion by UChicago, University of Amsterdam researchers could offer new avenues for design ...
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'Odd' objects excel at navigating challenging terrains without central control
Locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another, is an essential survival strategy for virtually every organism. Adapting to the unpredictable terrain they run into, cells, fungi and ...
Wild ‘Waterbending’ Technique Uses Waves to Steer Floating Objects With Precision
Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie.
These 26 Weird Objects Would Never Have Been Identified If The Internet Hadn't Come To The Rescue
"Electrochemically grown crystals. You can still see the holes used to hang the anodes in the plating bath. Towards the end ...
Mathematicians crack 40-year-old problem on quasiregularly elliptic manifolds
A mathematical problem solved by Susanna Heikkilä relates to the classification of quasiregularly elliptic 4-manifolds, ...
How are clouds’ shapes made? A scientist explains the different cloud types and how they help forecast weather
Puffy to wispy, barely there or dark and menacing, clouds come in many shapes and sizes. Each tells a story about what’s ...
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‘Odd’ objects that adapt and move without a brain
Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists at the University of Amsterdam ...
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Researchers co-led by NTU Singapore develop technique to manipulate water waves to precisely control floating objects
Laboratory experiments showed that these patterns can pull in nearby floating objects, like small foam balls the size of rice ...
HMP Berwyn guards became suspicious after noticing visitor's choice of clothing
Guards at a Wrexham prison became suspicious after a visitor arrived wearing a black jumper on a June day when it was 25C ...