Soft Robots Can Detect Damage and Self Heal in Few Minutes Thru Strechable Fiber Optic

Medicine & Technology Dec 08, 2022

Cornell University scientists installed SHeaLDS: a self-healing robot with light guides for dynamic sensing - resembling a four-legged starfish.Get to know more about this technology, read more!

Micro-Robotic Swimmers Inspired by Bacteria, Sperm Cells Could One Day Be Used For Targeted Drug Delivery

Sep 24, 2021

Scientists from Cornell University developed micro-robotic swimmers that can be powered by ultrasound waves that someday could be used as a new tool for targeted drug delivery.

Scientists Create a ‘Membrane on a Chip’ to Track Cell Reactions to Viruses

Jul 06, 2020

Scientists recreate human cell membranes onto an electronic chip to measure its behavior with external substances such as viruses and antibiotics. Soon, it will be screening drug candidates for coronavirus.

Scientists Plan to Study Dead Stars and Exoplanets to Look for Fingerprints and Other Signs of Life

May 04, 2020

Do you there is life in other planets? Scientists aren't waiting around to find out. It turns out, there are at least 25 billion places where life could exist in our galaxy alone. Scientists study different approaches such as fingerprinting and using biosignature to determine life in other planets soon.

Optical Lace Material Helps Soft Robots React to Their Environment

Sep 20, 2019

Researchers develop an optical lace to replace robot ‘flesh’ to improve its sensitivity to touch.

Scientists Create Living, Eating, Growing Machines

Apr 20, 2019

A machine that mimics biological life as we know it.

Supernovae Dust ‘Goldmine’ Found at the Center of the Milky Way

Mar 22, 2015

One of the largest questions to date has been what building materials were present at the formation of our Milky Way galaxy? Astronomers have long theorized that the building material may have come from the death of supermassive stars, however, the galaxy-building dust is thought to burn up in a supernova like that. But now researchers are saying that may not be the case at all. In a new study published this week in the journal Science Express, researchers with Cornell University have made the first direct discovery of dust used to build the cosmos at the center of the Milky Way, and they believe it may have resulted from an ancient supernova.

Striking It Rich in Supernovae Dust at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy

Mar 19, 2015

It’s a tough job sifting through the data and the haze of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, but some astronomers have to do it. The time-consuming job often means having to peer into the center with aid of multiple telescopes, all giving you a different perspective at a different wavelength. It can be job of countless hours, with little to no reward, but when researchers find even cosmic dust, their studies can strike it rich.