Researchers have created a light-powered soft robot that can carry loads through the air along established tracks, similar to cable cars or aerial trams. The soft robot operates autonomously, can climb slopes at angles of up to 80 degrees, and can carry loads up to 12 times its weight.

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected. The scientists have named the molecular hydrogen cloud “Eos,” after the Greek goddess of mythology who is the personification of dawn. Their discovery is outlined in a study published in Nature Astronomy.

“Get off my lawn!” It's not just grumpy neighbors—female birds nesting in cavities fiercely defend their homes too. Duke biologist Sara Lipshutz and team uncover why some bird species are ready to fight for prime real estate.

New research involving Rutgers professors has revealed that expected, extreme changes in India’s summer monsoon could drastically hamper the Bay of Bengal’s ability to support a crucial element of the region’s food supply: marine life. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, was conducted by scientists from Rutgers University, the University of Arizona and collaborators from India, China and Europe. To reach their conclusions, the scientists examined how the monsoon, which brings heavy rains to the Indian subcontinent, has influenced the Bay of Bengal’s marine productivity over the past 22,000 years.

Scientists at Columbia Engineering have created a machine learning algorithm that can observe the pattern produced by nanocrystals to infer the material’s atomic structure, as described in a new study published in Nature Materials.

A study of statewide data on North Carolina high school teachers who teach computer science and their students' learning outcomes suggests that these teachers were better qualified than their peers teaching other subjects, even those at the same schools. Learning outcomes were based on the proportion of students who took advanced placement tests in computer science and their test scores.

A new study from the Alana Down Syndrome Center and The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT provides new evidence that sensory stimulation of a gamma-frequency brain rhythm may promote broad-based restorative neurological health response.

The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO) near the summit of Maui’s Haleakalā, recently reached a major milestone as one of its groundbreaking instruments, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) achieved first light. The VTF is the world’s largest imaging spectro-polarimeter - a highly sophisticated instrument designed and built by a team at the Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) in Freiburg, Germany. It is the fifth and final first-generation instrument to be integrated, emerging as a crucial one among the Inouye’s instrument suite.