Researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and Sony have created a surgical robot that’s much smaller than many other such devices. They took inspiration from origami to build the mini-RCM, which is around the size of a tennis ball and weighs about the same as a penny.
Wyss associate faculty member Robert Wood and Sony engineer Hiroyuki Suzuki built the mini-RCM using a manufacturing technique developed...
Important scientific results were obtained in the framework of joint international research by scientists from Academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and Academician A.Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the institute, the physiological activity of new substances synthesized by...
Another article by scientists of the Institute of Chemistry of Additives of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan - Academician Vagif Farzaliyev, Doctor of Science in Chemistry Afsun Sujayev, Researcher Khadija Mamedyarova and Professor of Baku State University Afat Huseynova, together with foreign colleagues, has been published in the journal «Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics».
The article is devoted to...
Apple’s worldwide retail network may be struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped the company from indulging in its penchant for pricey-looking, unique, and outlandish exterior design. The iPhone maker’s newest retail location, located in Singapore on the city-state’s waterfront and known officially as Apple Marina Bay Sands, can claim a world’s first title: it’s the only...
In the Hunan province of central China, a supertram has been built that works without an overhead network, Xinhua reported.
The novelty came off the production line of the Zhuzhou City Locomotive Company, which is part of the CRRC Corporation. The train receives electricity from supercapacitors installed in it, and it can travel 5 km for one 30-second charge.
The train...
It’s been 25 years since Microsoft launched Windows 95. Windows 95 introduced the iconic Start menu and Taskbar to billions of users around the world. Over the past 25 years, Windows has continued to evolve. Today, Microsoft published the above video to showcase the evolution of Windows over the past 3 decades.
Microsoft also published interviews of two engineers who...
An unresolved security weakness in Google Drive can be exploited by software attackers to distribute malicious files disguised as normal documents or images targeting users, thereby allowing users to allowing them to deploy large-scale phishing attacks with a fairly high rate of success.
With that said, this is a vulnerability that Google has confirmed, but as of now it has...
In accordance with the priority directions provided for by the "ANAS National Development Program for 2020-2025", academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives conducts scientific research in the direction of using mathematical modeling and information technologies in studying chemical-technological processes.
International Collaborative Research, conducted by leading experts at the
Center for Computational Research - University at Buffalo in the United States,...
Facebook has announced the final transition to the updated interface introduced in 2019. Starting next month, it will be impossible to switch from the new version of the social network to the classic one.
The massive redesign - the largest in 15 years of Facebook's existence - was unveiled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 Conference last May. At...
Back in October last year, Google introduced a slew of privacy features for Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Chrome. This included a Password Checkup feature for Chrome, which would allow users to check if any of their passwords had been compromised in a public data breach. Now, the company is rolling out the feature in Google Chrome for Android.
According to a...