Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 4 February 2024.
After years of trials, Iowa State genetic scientists can build a DNA structure that can express its own genetic instructions, which could lead to medical advances.
Amazon presents ViGoR
Improving Visual Grounding of Large Vision Language Models with Fine-Grained Reward Modeling.
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Football players (and anyone else who takes hard hits) may want to breathe a sigh of relief.
In recent research, engineers at the University of Colorado of Boulder and Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new design for padding that can withstand big impacts. The team’s innovations, which can be printed on commercially available 3D printers, could one day wind up in everything from shipping crates to football pads—anything that helps to protect fragile objects, or bodies, from the bumps of life.
The team described the technology in a paper recently published in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies.
Minesto aims to offer clean, dependable, and cost-effective ocean-based power solutions through its Dragon-class tidal power plants.