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Inspired by vines’ twisty tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake ...

MIT and Stanford built vine-like soft robots that wrap, lift, and gently carry objects — even humans — using inflatable ...

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WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - NASA released fresh images on Wednesday of the interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a comet probably even older than our solar system, ...

Back in 2023, Chinese tech brand Beaverlab raised more than HK$2.8m (US$360,000) to bring the world’s first portable digital microscope to the market, and it proved an instant hit. The updated Darwin ...

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A small object recently captured by Earth’s gravity may not be a natural satellite at all. According to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the mysterious body, known as 2025 PN7, could be a lost piece ...