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Robotic dolphin cleans oil spills with sea urchin-inspired filter
A dolphin may soon help clean oil spills, but this one runs on batteries.
Engineers at RMIT University in Australia have built a small robotic “Electronic Dolphin” designed to vacuum oil from the surface of water using a filter inspired…
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Study warns Colombia could lose one-fifth of cocoa land by 2050
By 2050, nearly 20% of the areas currently suitable for cocoa cultivation in Colombia could lose the climate conditions needed for production, particularly in the lowlands of the Caribbean region and the country’s northeastern departments,…
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U.S. Indigenous peoples experience higher rates of fatal police violence in and around reservations
Indigenous people in the United States are at higher risk of fatal police violence in and around American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) reservations, according to the first comprehensive national study on the subject from researchers at Drexel…
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Largest genetic study classifies 14 psychiatric disorders into five major groups
Although mental disorders have multifactorial causes, genetics can explain some of them, yet this field remains largely unexplored in terms of guiding diagnoses and treatments. In the largest study of its kind ever conducted…
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Samsung debuts first pouch solid-state battery for humanoid robots
Samsung SDI said it will showcase a new pouch-type all-solid-state battery designed for emerging physical AI systems such as humanoid robots.
The battery will be publicly displayed for the first time at the InterBattery 2026 exhibition in…
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Mpox immune test validated during Rwandan outbreak
An antibody test for the infectious disease mpox was successfully developed during the new clade 1b outbreak in Rwanda, the first time that an assay of its kind has been validated within this setting. The test, an IgG ELISA assay, is described in…
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Why you can remember every word of a song from 25 years ago—but not why you walked into the room
While driving recently, a long-forgotten song came on the radio. I found myself singing along; not only did I know all the lyrics to a song I hadn’t heard in 25 years or more, but I also managed to rap along. How is it that I could give this…
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Were You Born to Love Music?
Acclaimed Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov believed that aesthetic pleasure was a full-bodied experience. Nabokov, who was celebrated for his rich, evocative prose, got what he called a “telltale tingle” when he encountered masterful works…
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Scientists simulate complete life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell
By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell – from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division – scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the essential processes of…
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