A recent imaging study questions long-held beliefs about how hair grows and may open the door to new hair-loss treatments. Scientists have found that human hair doesn’t grow by being pushed up from the root. Rather, it is drawn along by forces from a newly identified network of moving cells. This discovery challenges long-standing biological […]
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Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) have created a new kind of sodium-ion battery that relies on lignin as a core electrode material. Lignin is a naturally occurring polymer in trees that binds wood fibers together and provides structural strength. In the paper-making industry, manufacturers largely treat it as a
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To operate effectively in dynamic, unstructured settings, robots require AI trained on diverse sensory data. Microsoft Corp. today introduced Rho-alpha (ρα), the first robotics-focused model derived from its Phi family of vision-language models. Rho-Alpha Boosts Robot Autonomy with VLA Capabilities According to Microsoft, vision-language-action (VLA) models allow physical AI systems to sense, reason, and act
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Concerns about a link between permanent hair dyes and breast cancer have grown following a large-scale study tracking thousands of women over several years. Researchers aimed to determine whether the chemicals in these products could affect breast cancer risk. By monitoring women of various ages, backgrounds, and hair product usage habits, the study uncovered patterns
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A brain cap paired with intelligent algorithms could potentially allow paralyzed patients to translate their thoughts into movement—without the need for surgery. Individuals with spinal cord injuries frequently lose partial or full movement in their arms or legs. Often, the nerves in the limbs remain functional, and the brain still generates normal signals. The issue
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People direct nearly half of their attention to their conversation partner’s lip movements. In contrast, robots typically have only simplified “caricature” lips and mouths that don’t move in sync with the sounds they produce via their speakers. Yuhang Hu and his team at Columbia University saw this as a major limitation, describing facial expression as
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Researchers have created a robotic hand that can separate from its arm and independently move to access objects beyond the robot’s reach. Unlike traditional human-like hands, the new design uses a symmetrical structure to grip objects from multiple angles. The device comes in two variants, with five or six identical fingers evenly arranged around a
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An international team from Kanazawa University (Japan), Tohoku University (Japan), LPP (France), and collaborators has shown that chorus emissions—natural electromagnetic waves well-known in Earth’s magnetosphere—also appear in Mercury’s magnetosphere, displaying similar chirping frequency patterns. BepiColombo’s Mio recorded audible plasma waves during six Mercury flybys from 2021 to 2025. Comparison with decades of GEOTAIL data showed
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Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a developing communication technology that applies the principles of quantum mechanics to achieve extremely secure information exchange between two parties. It enables a sender and a receiver to actively establish a shared secret key, even when an adversary may be monitoring the communication channel. Any eavesdropping attempt disturbs the quantum
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A study by researchers at the Technical University of Munich in Germany reports that Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing, and if this trend continues for millions of years, a day could eventually last 25 hours instead of 24. The study used a ring laser in southern Germany to detect tiny changes in Earth’s rotation. Over
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