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Shape Memory Alloys

Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) are a class of advanced metallic materials that have the remarkable ability to “remember” their original shape. After being deformed, they can return to...

September 25, 2012

Robojelly

Robojelly is an innovative biomimetic robot inspired by the anatomy and movement of real jellyfish. Developed by researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech,...

September 25, 2012

Cyberplasm

Cyberplasm is a biohybrid concept that combines biological components with electronic and mechanical systems to create a synthetic organism capable of sensing, movement, and response similar to living...

September 25, 2012

Joshua Blue

The Project Joshua Blue was an experimental artificial-intelligence research initiative undertaken at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Its principal aim was to explore how computer systems...

September 25, 2012

Blue Brain Project

The Blue Brain Project is a pioneering scientific initiative aimed at digitally reconstructing and simulating the human brain using advanced computational models. Established in 2005 at the École...

September 25, 2012

Chondrules

Chondrules are small, spherical or ovoid silicate grains found within chondritic meteorites, the most primitive type of stony meteorites in the Solar System. Typically measuring between 0.1 and...

September 25, 2012

Tasman Leakage

The Tasman Leakage refers to an important oceanographic phenomenon involving the movement of warm, saline waters from the Pacific Ocean into the Indian Ocean through the Tasman Sea,...

September 25, 2012

Global Thermohaline Circulation

The Global Thermohaline Circulation (THC), often referred to as the “global ocean conveyor belt,” is a large-scale system of ocean currents that circulates seawater around the world. Driven...

September 25, 2012

RISAT-1

RISAT-1 (Radar Imaging Satellite-1) is India’s first indigenous microwave remote sensing satellite, developed and launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is part of the RISAT...

September 25, 2012

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are a specific category of near-Earth objects (NEOs) whose orbits bring them sufficiently close to Earth to pose a possible impact threat in the...

September 25, 2012

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