杏吧原创

News

Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with New 杏吧原创鈥檚 exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

The Fractal Hand-II: Reviving a Classic Mechanism for Contemporary Grasping Challenges https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08766

Technology

Fractal fingers could let robots securely grasp any shape

A robotic gripper inspired by a patent from 1913 consists of a nested arrangement of pivoting joints that can wrap around odd shapes using a single motor

News

Life

Egg sex screening aims to stop slaughter of billions of male chicks

News

Environment

Scorching September puts 2023 on track to be hottest year on record

News

Space

Amazon is launching its first internet satellites to rival Starlink

News

Environment

Global power sector has almost hit peak greenhouse gas emissions

News

Health

Being vegetarian may be partly determined by your genes

News

Humans

Humans lived on Spanish plateau during Earth’s last cold snap

News

Life

Hippos are really bad at chewing their food

News

Health

Why we urgently need to end the stigma around body weight

News
Portland, OR, USA - Jan 17, 2023: Webpages of ChatGPT, OpenAI's chatbot, and Google are seen on smartphones. A new wave of chatbots like ChatGPT use AI that can reinvent the traditional search engine.; Shutterstock ID 2250721589; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Technology

We still don’t really understand what large language models are

The world has happily embraced large language models such as ChatGPT, but even researchers working in AI don't fully understand the systems they work on, finds Alex Wilkins

News

Health

Myths about the microbiome abound 鈥� but the truth is more interesting

News

Technology

US emergency alert system: Everything to know about the national test

News

Technology

Wing-flapping robot helps explain the evolution of insect flight

News

Environment

Why China’s clean energy tech will determine our climate future

News