Japanese scientists build sweaty robot and other top stories.

• Japanese scientists build sweaty robot

  

  How many pushups can you do?As we exercise, our bodies can produce a lot of heat as our muscles convert chemical energy into mechanical energy. To keep moving effectively during such conditions, we produce sweat to cool ourselves down. As the water in our sweat evaporates, it takes excess heat with it, allowing us to keep moving without overheating.A team from the University of Tokyo has created a robot that can exercise and cool off in a similar way, inspired by human sweat. The new robot is n..

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• China closer to establishing permanent space station

  

  The launch of a new manned space mission brings China closer to the establishment of a permanent space station, international experts say. Chinese taikonauts, Jing Haipeng, 50, and Chen Dong, 37, were blasted off into space onboard Shenzhou-11 at 7:30 a.m. Monday (2330 GMT Sunday) and will spend 30 days in the Chinese space laboratory Tiangong-2. The launch marks a key step toward China's plan to eventually operate a permanent space station, said Russia Today television. The successful l..

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• How to watch Schiaparelli land on Mars

  

  VIDEO The European Space Agency (ESA) is leading a new mission to Mars called ExoMars, and it’s about to attempt to land a probe on the Red Planet’s surface. The probe is called Schiaparelli for the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, one of the first to map Mars’ surface in the late 1800s. What would Giovanni have thought if he could have watched the probe detach successfully from its mothership on Sunday (October 16, 2016)? The probe and mothership are both now barreling toward Mars. Th..

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• Hillary Clinton's Climate Calamity

  

  5278121“Climate change is real, it’s urgent, and America can take the lead in the world in addressing it,” Hillary Clinton told her mostly young audience in a panicky speech at a rally at Miami-Dade College in Miami, FL, October 11. Indeed, she said, “We need a President who believes in science and who has a plan to lead America in facing this threat and creating good jobs, and yes, saving our planet.” Clinton might want to learn a bit of climate science. She could start with temperature tren..

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• This mouse was grown from its mother's skin cells

  

  K. Hayashi/Kyushu University For the first time, researchers have grown eggs entirely in a lab dish. Skin-producing cells called fibroblasts from the tip of an adult mouse’s tail have been reprogrammed to make eggs, Japanese researchers report online October 17 in Nature. Those eggs were fertilized and grew into six healthy mice. The accomplishment could make it possible to study the formation of gametes — eggs and sperm — a mysterious process that takes place inside fetus..

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• Two Trillion Galaxies, at the Very Least

  

  The scale of the universe, already unfathomable, just became even more so: There are about 10 times as many galaxies as previously thought.The new number, two trillion galaxies, is the result of work led by Christopher J. Conselice, an astrophysicist at the University of Nottingham in England, published last week in The Astrophysical Journal. Unforgettable Hubble Space Telescope Photos On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubb..

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