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If you’ve ever stared at a long scientific paper and thought, “There’s no way I’m getting through this today,” you’re not alone. Academics often struggle to keep up with the growing volume of research in their fields.
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Mitochondrial DNA variant predicts resistance to melanoma immunotherapy
Results from a new study help resolve the decade-long mystery of why many patients with the deadliest form of skin cancer do not respond to the latest cancer treatments. Specifically, researchers found patients with metastatic…
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This ‘dual-use’ electric tractor can sow fields and run guns
A Spanish startup called Voltrac says it is building a new breed of smart…
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A hidden ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet is dipping in and out of its habitable zone
A huge “super-Earth” with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable thing is, it was discovered without even being…
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Robot Videos: One-Legged Robot, Good-bye Aldebaran, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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Bumble Bee asks court to dismiss lawsuit alleging forced labor in tuna supply chain
- In March, four Indonesian men filed a landmark lawsuit in the U.S. against canned tuna giant Bumble Bee Foods, accusing the company of profiting from abuse and exploitation aboard Chinese-owned vessels supplying…
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Glacier Commits “Ice Piracy” in Record Time, Baffling Scientists
A glacier in Antarctica is rapidly redirecting ice from a neighboring glacier, revealing a new and urgent dynamic in ice flow with implications for global sea-level rise. A glacier in Antarctica is committing what scientists call “ice…
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First Map Made of a Solid’s Secret Quantum Geometry
Famously, at the quantum scale, particles can be in multiple possible locations at once. A particle’s state spreads out like a wave, peaking where the particle is likely to be found. When you measure its position, this spread-out state,…
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Insects help scientists create powerful new materials from nanocarbons
Researchers at Japan’s RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) and Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have transformed insects into living chemical reactors.
Led by Kenichiro Itami, the team developed a technique called…
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