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Tech Xplore / Disney teaches a robot how to fall gracefully and make a soft landing

Bipedal (two-legged) robots are sophisticated machines, but they are not the most graceful when things go wrong. A simple push, fall or an obstacle can send them crashing to the ground, often resulting in expensive damage ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Robotics
Phys.org / Scientists map the hidden cellular 'postal codes' that shape every human face

Why do no two human faces look quite the same? Although we all follow the same biological blueprint, our features—the curve of a lip, the angle of a nose, the breadth of a jaw—diverge in endlessly subtle ways.

Nov 20, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Discovering America's 'epilepsy belt': Study reveals US regions with high epilepsy rates

A first-of-its-kind nationwide study has mapped epilepsy incidence rates among older adults in the United States and identified key social and environmental factors associated with the neurological condition.

Nov 20, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / First-ever full Earth system simulation provides new tool to understand climate change

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling in recognition of their project "Computing the Full Earth System at 1 km Resolution." The ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Experimental vaccine offers rapid, long-lasting protection against deadly tick-borne virus

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is one of the world's most dangerous yet overlooked infectious diseases. Spread by ticks and livestock, the virus causes sudden fever, organ failure, and internal bleeding, killing up ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Vaccination
Tech Xplore / Wargaming: The surprisingly effective tool that can help us prepare for modern crises

Consider the following scenario. There's a ransomware attack, enhanced by AI, which paralyzes NHS systems—delaying medical care across the country.

Nov 21, 2025 in Machine learning & AI
Phys.org / Scientists get a first look at the innermost region of a white dwarf system

Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star is a type of white dwarf that exerts a powerful magnetic field as it pulls material from the larger ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Psilocybin could reverse effects of brain injuries resulting from intimate partner violence, rat study finds

The term intimate partner violence (IPV) refers to physical, sexual or psychological abuse perpetrated by an individual on their romantic partner or spouse. Victims of IPV who are violently attacked and physically abused ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / AI traces prehistoric trade routes of Europe's prized 'green gemstone' trade

A multidisciplinary team of Spanish and Portuguese archaeologists and artificial intelligence experts has combined non-destructive archaeological measurement techniques, machine learning and explainable artificial intelligence ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Explainable AI and turbulence: A fresh look at an unsolved physics problem

While atmospheric turbulence is a familiar culprit of rough flights, the chaotic movement of turbulent flows remains an unsolved problem in physics. To gain insight into the system, a team of researchers used explainable ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Seborrheic dermatitis: Large US cohort reveals pattern of epithelial barrier disease overlap

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report that adults with seborrheic dermatitis in a large US cohort had higher odds of multiple epithelial barrier diseases across skin, respiratory, ...

Phys.org / Multicellular cyanobacteria switch gene activity between day and night cycles

Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, occur worldwide in many varieties, including in single-cell form and in chains called filaments. While these tiny life forms can strongly influence many ecosystems, the details ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Biology