Stingrays’ bulging eyes and mouths make them much faster swimmers
2 September 2021
Stingrays have protruding eyes and mouths, which seem like they would make swimming less efficient, but they actually create vortices that let the rays swim faster
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3D-printed robotic hand powered by water can play Super Mario Bros
15 July 2021
A 3D-printed robotic hand controlled by pressurised water can complete the first level of classic computer game Super Mario Bros in less than 90 seconds
Earth could have more water than we thought while exoplanets have less
4 July 2019
New experiments with ice at very high pressures could force us to rethink our understanding of water on Earth and other planets
We've measured the pressure inside a proton and it's extreme
16 May 2018
The pressure inside a proton is a billion billion billion times the pressure in the Mariana Trench, and 10 times higher than in the core of a neutron star
We can now squeeze a molecule and turn it into one that we want
21 February 2018
We can now precisely tweak molecular structures just by squeezing them - a technique that could let us efficiently build custom drug compounds on the cheap
