Smithsonian Magazine

Astronomers Find an Odd Space Cloud, Like a Galaxy Without Stars, That Could Shed Light on the Secrets of Dark Matter

Named “Cloud-9,” the discovery is a new type of celestial object known as a RELHIC, making it unlike anything scientists have ...

Stanford Researchers Develop New Material That Changes Color and Texture Like an Octopus

Inspired by the remarkable camouflage abilities of octopus and cuttlefish, Stanford researchers have developed a soft material that can rapidly shift its surface texture and color at extremely fine ...

The cosmic seesaw: Black holes eject material as winds or jets, but not both at once

Astronomers at the University of Warwick have discovered that black holes don't just consume matter—they manage it, choosing ...

As puzzling as a platypus: The JWST finds some hard to categorize objects

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...
IEEE

A Physics-Informed Neural Network Framework for Real-Time Model Predictive Shape Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects

Abstract: Shape control of deformable linear objects (DLOs) is a major challenge in robotics due to their high-dimensional, nonlinear dynamics and sensitivity to boundary conditions. Existing ...