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In an attempt to give surgeons superhuman precision, Google’s Verily has partnered with Johnson & Johnson. Under the new startup, called Verb Surgical, two companies will develop medical robotics to assist surgeons.

The new company is a result of a partnership between pre-Alphabet Google and pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson that was announced earlier this year. The collaboration brings experts from Google and Ethicon of Johnson & Johnson on a single platform to assist surgeons.

The experts from both the companies will work to combine Verb Surgical's robots and Ethicon’s medical tools in one system that may assist doctors in performing minimally invasive operations. The new robots will improve surgeons’ control while performing surgeries.

A Colorado mother, who has been blind for over 20 years, could tell how it feels to see the world after a long time. Recently, after getting a new bionic eye, the woman saw her son for the first time in many years.

Jamie Carley had tears in her eyes when she was seeing her son’s face. According to the woman, she got her new bionic eye after a surgery at the UCHealth Eye Center at the University of Colorado Hospital on November 2. Carley said she was waiting from the past few weeks to turn the implant on.

Japan’s recent whaling activities have shown the East Asian country is not going to stop killing whales. The country has already sailed ships for hunt, which could span until March next year. Earlier, the country sent its fourth whaler to join the fleet.

Many times, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has tried to halt Japan’s controversial whaling activities. In 1986, the global intergovernmental body imposed a commercial ban on Japan’s whaling, but the country didn’t stop killing whales. Japanese officials always claimed that whaling is a part of scientific researches, but they couldn’t hide the fact that the animal has been sold commercially.

If you think windy storms are always linked to planets, then you must check new observation by NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes. The lenses have spotted a giant storm on a distant dwarf star, according to a study published in the Astrophysical Journal.

The cool dwarf star, W1906+40, belongs to a category of L-dwarf. Some dwarf stars are also known as ‘failed stars’ because there is no nuclear fusion going on in their cores. But some stars like W1906+40 are capable of stroking their inner furnaces.

A NASA engineer said a Death Star can be built by using materials that are already in space, such as asteroids. It is possible to construct the Empire’s ultimate weapon, which is capable of destroying a planet, without launching costly sources to the space, as per the engineer.

Brian Muirhead, chief engineer at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the death star seen in Star Wars movies was very costly because to build it a bunch of stuff was launched. Adding to that, it was destroyed by rebels two times, Muirhead added.

Astronomers and the entire scientific community are puzzled ever since they have discovered something strange in our outer solar system. It is a faint object located in the Alpha Centauri star system that is closest to earth, said astronomers.

Researchers after analyzing the data said that the newly discovered object can be a star. Astronomers in their research posted on arXiv detailed that the object is orbiting our own sun in the outer area of our solar system.

According to Forbes, it is for the second time that they have spotted an object in that particular region. One of the possibilities is that it could be an extreme trans-Neptunian object about 100 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun.