Via computer simulations and experiments to control the length of the linkages in the furcula as well as the energy stored in them, the team found that the robot could jump some 1.4 m horizontally, or ...

Integrating low-cost infrared sensors into thermostats could increase occupants’ comfort while optimizing energy use ...

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According to their model, if they changed the magnitude of various parameters, they should be able to rescale the curves so that they essentially collapse onto a single curve. “This makes our ...

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Certainly, the value of the magnetic moment of the muon or the behaviour of superconductors in a fusion reactor (look out for ...

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Treatment with a cold atmospheric plasma reduced the recurrence rate of melanoma tumours after surgery by roughly 50% ...

Proton arc therapy offers a superior dose distribution compared with existing state-of-the-art proton delivery techniques ...

These quantum-inspired tensor networks represent the turbulence probability distributions in a hyper-compressed format, which then allows them to be simulated. By simulating the probability ...

The fusion physicist Ian Chapman is to be the next head of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – the UK’s biggest public research funder. He will take up the position in June, replacing the geniticist ...