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Tech Xplore / Images: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon alongside flesh-and-blood competitors
In one small step for robot-kind—thousands of them, really—humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital on Saturday.
Medical Xpress / Child concussion: What to know if your child takes a blow to the head
When a child tumbles to the floor from a blow to the head, a parent's inner alarms should sound. The child may have a brain injury.
Tech Xplore / Analysts warn US could be handing chip market to China
As the Trump administration attempts to choke off exports of strategically important computer chips to China, experts say the effort might well backfire, fueling innovation at Chinese firms that could help them seize the ...
Medical Xpress / Reunion hospital boss urges reinforcements amid chikungunya outbreak
The head of the hospital service on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion on Sunday called for medical reinforcements to cope with an epidemic of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease.
Phys.org / NASA's oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday
Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday.
Phys.org / Rethinking neutron star mergers: Study explores the effects of magnetic fields on their oscillating frequencies
Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars. These mergers are known to generate gravitational waves, energy-carrying waves propagating through ...
Medical Xpress / Understanding the 'aha' moment: Study suggests insight involves exploring greater distances within a solution space
When humans are trying to grasp a complicated concept or solve a problem, they might suddenly feel like they have gained a deeper understanding or think of something they had not thought of before. This type of 'aha' moments, ...
Phys.org / Conservative Americans consistently distrust science, survey finds
Conservative people in America appear to distrust science more broadly than previously thought. Not only do they distrust science that does not correspond to their worldview, but also, compared to liberal Americans, their ...
Phys.org / A slowly spinning universe could solve the Hubble tension
A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy suggests the universe may rotate—just extremely slowly. ...
Phys.org / Half of the universe's hydrogen gas, long unaccounted for, has been found
Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half ...
Phys.org / Astronomers detect strongest sign yet of possible life on a planet beyond our own
Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious.
Phys.org / Why Katy Perry's celebrity spaceflight blazed a trail for climate breakdown
What's not to like about an all-female celebrity crew riding a rocket into space? Quite a lot, as it turns out.