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A robot walks on water thanks to evolution’s solution
Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery.…
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Even the worst mass extinction had its oases
Some earlier plants might not have made it through the extinction since rock layers from the onset of the End-Permian…
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Supermassive black hole binary emits unexpected flares
Skip to content Their orbit periodically takes them through a cloud of gas, triggering flares. What happens when a gargantuan…
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Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas
Breakdown — Polypropylene and polyethylene can be broken down simultaneously. Elizabeth Rayne – Sep 21, 2024 11:30 am UTC Our…
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Meteorites give the Moon its extremely thin atmosphere
The exosphere gets the vapors — Impacts that vaporize bits of the lunar surface maintain the Moon’s thin atmosphere. Elizabeth…
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Mini-Neptune turned out to be a frozen super-Earth
Like Earth, but super — The density makes it look like a water world, but its dim host star keeps…
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How do brainless creatures control their appetites?
Feed me! — Separate systems register when the animals have eaten and control feeding behaviors. Elizabeth Rayne – Jun 15,…
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How the perils of space have affected asteroid Ryugu
Magnets: how do they stop working? — Ryugu’s parent body appears to have had a fair amount of water present,…
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Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain
Better sleep on it — Rhythmic activity during sleep may get fluids in the brain moving. Elizabeth Rayne – Apr…
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Mars may not have had liquid water long enough for life to form
Subliminal — Lab experiments suggest gullies on Mars might form when carbon dioxide heats up. Elizabeth Rayne – Apr 4,…
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