Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

A new study opens new avenues for combating soybean cyst nematodes, the most damaging pest for U.S. soybean crops.

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has developed an AI-based tool that can assist with reactor design and help operators run nuclear plants, according to Richard Vilim, a senior nuclear engineer within the lab’s nuclear science ...

A systematic review published in Discover Oncology explores the anticancer efficacy of medicinal plant extracts in treating Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC), a common and aggressive form of head ...

This abandoned nuclear power plant — a strange mix of massive concrete ... are all things that have passed through the doors of his lab. When companies need to verify how much sound their ...

The plant samples will come from WSSU’s astrobotany lab, the university said. The New Shepard space-tourism rocket will carry the samples and its all-female crew to an altitude slightly higher ...

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Meet Sirenobethylus charybdis, a wasp that the team half-jokingly called a ‘Cretaceous flytrap’ for its rear being shaped like the fly-gobbling plant. ‘Nothing similar is known from any other insect,’ ...