Elephant seals seem to have precise mental maps for navigating home

Northern elephant seals seem to know how far they have travelled and when they need to head back towards the beaches where they breed Life 28 February 2022 By Chen Ly An adult female elephant seal on a beach at Año Nuevo State Park in California Dan Costa Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) return to … Read more

Atomic Clocks Experiment Reveals Time Dilation at The Smallest Scale Ever

In his theory of general relativity, Einstein predicted something called time dilation: the notion that two clocks under two different gravitational pulls will always tick at different speeds.   The effect has been observed in many experiments since, but now scientists have recorded it at the smallest scale seen so far. The result was achieved using … Read more

This Robotic Hand Is Precise Enough to Move a Microchip With Tweezers

Innovators at South Korea’s Ajou University have created a robotic hand that is capable of holding fragile objects like eggs. It can also crush cans and work with tools like tweezers and scissors.   An article published in Nature Communications explained all the details of the new technology. It weighs just under two and a half pounds … Read more