Robotic sucker can adapt to surroundings like an actual octopus
This isn’t the first time suction cups were inspired by highly adaptive octopus suckers. Some models have used pressurized chambers ...
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In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader
In the meantime, the Copyright Office is in the odd position of attempting to carry on as though it wasn’t ...
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SCOTUS upholds part of ACA that makes preventive care fully covered
The USPSTF is made up of 16 medical experts who carefully review scientific data and run models to assess what ...
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Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets
On Wednesday, CISA added CVE-2024-54085 to its list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited in the wild. The notice provided ...
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Book authors made the wrong arguments in Meta AI training case, judge says
An interesting wrinkle that may have stopped authors from invoking market dilution as a threat in the Meta case is ...
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All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel
A federal vaccine panel entirely hand-selected by health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gathered for its first ...
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The axion may help clean up the messy business of dark matter
In fact, axions belong to a much broader class of “ultra-light” dark matter particle candidates, which can have masses down ...
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Discovery of HMS Endeavour wreck confirmed
By 2016, RIMAP’s volunteers, operating on grants and private donations, had located 10 of the 13 wrecks, almost exactly where ...
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Researchers get viable mice by editing DNA from two sperm
Rare success The researchers spent time ensuring that the enzymes they had were modifying the methylation as expected, and that ...
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Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights
Seeking safe harbor “On the long-range voyages, we worked in watches of four hours on and four hours off, and ...
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