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Researchers learn why robots get stuck in the sand -- and how to keep them going (Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's advanced mobile robots explore complex terrains across the globe and even on Mars, but have difficulty traversing sand and other granular media like dirt, rubble or slippery piles ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 5




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The hills are evolving: New model predicts speed of spreading valleys

From high above the Florida Panhandle, the Apalachicola Bluffs -- a winding system of steep ravines -- look like the branching veins of a leaf.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Image: Earth from space -- wind-inspired design

The pastel colours and soft, flowing shapes in this Envisat radar image of the Tanezrouft Basin in the Algerian Sahara contradict the harshness of the terrain that has led to it being commonly referred to ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Termites foretell climate change in Africa's savannas

Using sophisticated airborne imaging and structural analysis, scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology mapped more than 40,000 termite mounds over 192 square miles in the African ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UALR Prof, students helping keep NASA's rovers from getting stuck

(PhysOrg.com) -- A paper co-authored by Dr. Cang Ye, associate professor in UALR's Department of Applied Science, and two UALR students won "Best Paper" at the 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering International ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study reveals that logging debris suppresses development of an invasive competitor, Scotch broom

Countless studies and reports exist describing how a landscape is impacted after logging Douglas-fir: What is the impact on the soil? Should one leave the debris in place? Pile it? Burn it or haul it offsite in preparation ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Made by man, finished by nature: Now's the best time to hit the beach to hunt for sea glass

It may have once been part of a beer bottle. Or a vase. Or a Milk of Magnesia container. But after decades of being tumbled by water, after years of having its edges softened and rounded, it sits on the beach, a colored ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

A common genetic mechanism discovered in nitrogen-fixing plants

Some soil microorganisms are capable of forging associations with plant roots in the form of symbioses. Certain of these relationships play a highly important ecological and agronomic role. Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis ...

Biology /

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Rovers begin new observations on changing Martian atmosphere

Mars rover scientists have launched a new long-term study on the Martian atmosphere with the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, an instrument that was originally developed at the University of Chicago.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 29, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Rovers begin new observations on changing Martian atmosphere

Mars rover scientists have launched a new long-term study on the Martian atmosphere with the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, an instrument that was originally developed at the University of Chicago.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 20, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Rovers Look Forward to A Second Martian Spring

Like the fabled tortoise that, in the race with the hare, moves slowly yet accomplishes much, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has continued to make progress little by little, while essentially running ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 10, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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