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Human skin contains sensitive nerve cells that detect pressure, temperature and other sensations that allow tactile interactions with the environment. To help robots and prosthetic devices attain these abilities, scientists are trying to develop electronic skins. Now, a new method creates an ultrathin, stretchable electronic skin, which could be used for a variety of human-machine interactions.

University of Alberta psychologists have identified what they say are the 10 funniest words in the English language. The researchers determined that there are two main kinds of predictors of funniness in words: those related to the form of the word and those related to its meaning.

Conservation scientists and statisticians at Colorado State University have teamed up to solve a key problem for the study of sensitive behaviors like poaching, harassment, bribery, and drug use.

Searching through the mountains of published cancer research could be made easier for scientists, thanks to a new AI system. The system, called LION LBD has been designed to assist scientists in the search for cancer-related discoveries.

Fresh insight in the fight to save the Earth’s embattled coral reefs has shown that corals and the microbes they host evolved together.

Mathematical modelling has determined the relationship between the time from when it starts to rain until runoff begins taking with it microbes such E. coli from organic fertilizers.

While organ dysfunctions within sepsis have been widely studied, the interaction between measures of organ dysfunction remains an understudied area. Recent findings may aid clinical efforts to identify sepsis patients.

Researchers aided by machine learning have created synthetic fingerprints capable of spoofing smartphone fingerprint sensors.

Single nucleotide variations could be the key to better identification of tumor subpopulations.

Single nucleotide variations could be the key to better identification of tumor subpopulations.