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Alloys are essential for buildings, transportation, appliances, and tools. They've also caused engineers to face a common materials trade-off: hard alloys tend to be brittle and break under strain, but if flexible under strain, they tend to…

A new artificial intelligence (AI) software can now decipher difficult-to-read texts on cuneiform tablets. It was developed by a team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Mainz…

In its general entry on robots, Wikipedia wryly points out that much of the confidence that household robots would clean our houses for us was “overly optimistic in timescale.” While there are the one-trick Roombas of the appliance…

For over 30 years, leading cave divers have attempted to further explore the full extent of the world's largest subterranean lake at Dragon's Breath Cave, gigantic water-filled cavern beneath the Kalahari Desert, but have been repeatedly…

The global tissue engineering market, which involves healing or replacing cells and organs damaged by medical treatments, is expected to reach $11.5 billion by 2022. Cells and organs often remain damaged following the diagnosis and…