AI - Artificial intelligence
What Is Dexterous Manipulation in Robotics?
Dexterous manipulation is the controlled movement of an object through coordinated robot-hand contacts, including regrasping, rotation, translation and in-hand adjustmen…
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AI - Artificial intelligence
AI World Models: How AI Predicts and Plans in the Physical World
AI world models learn representations of how an environment changes so an agent can predict possible future states, compare actions and plan before acting in the real or…
Space science
How Are Exoplanets Detected?
Astronomers detect exoplanets through transits, stellar wobble, direct imaging, microlensing, astrometry and timing signals, then use follow-up observations to rule out…
Biology
What Is Gene Therapy and How Does It Work?
Gene therapy changes genetic material or gene expression in a patient's cells to treat disease. The term covers several strategies, including adding a functional gene, s…
Biology
What Is Base Editing?
Base editing is a gene-editing approach designed to change one DNA base into another without creating a full double-strand break at the target site. It combines a progra…
Environment
How Do Climate Models Work?
Climate models are mathematical representations of the atmosphere, ocean, land, ice and the exchanges of energy and matter among them. They are built from physical laws…
Environment
What Is the Evidence for Climate Change?
Evidence for climate change comes from many independent measurements rather than one thermometer record. Surface stations, satellites, ocean instruments, ice observation…
Health
What's New in Medical Research?
Medical research changes continuously, so a page about what is new needs a clear time horizon. This overview reflects publicly reported research developments available i…
Health
What Is Biological Age?
Biological age is a research concept that uses measurable features of the body to estimate how aging-related biological changes compare with what is typical for a person…
Health
What Is Cellular Senescence?
Cellular senescence is a durable state in which a cell stops dividing in response to stress or damage while remaining metabolically active and often changing the signals…
Space science
How Do Astronomers Detect Exoplanets?
Astronomers usually detect exoplanets indirectly, by measuring how a planet changes the light, motion, or gravitational behavior of its host star.
Environment
Why solar energy is the only viable energy source in the long term
Not only can solar energy completely meet all of the world's energy needs, in the long term it is the only energy source that will not overheat the Earth.
Biology
Flower revived from 32,000 year old seed
Scientists are trying to decode an ancient flower to understand why its seeds can
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5 characteristics of people with low EQ you should know
A person with low EQ will have these typical characteristics, if they don't change soon, it will be difficult to succeed.
Oceanography
'Another world' discovered thousands of meters deep under the ice in Antarctica
Scientists have confirmed that an almost completely ice-covered area in Antarctica hides a