As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks nothing like the sleek and intimidating…
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Not ready for robots in homes? The maker of a friendly new humanoid thinks it might change your mind
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Mountain lion spotted in San Francisco, officials working to capture it
A young mountain lion spotted roaming the streets of San Francisco has been located near a park where wildlife officials are trying to capture it, authorities said Tuesday.
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Thinking on different wavelengths: New approach to circuit design introduces next-level quantum computing
Quantum computing represents a potential breakthrough technology that could far surpass the technical limitations of modern-day computing systems for some tasks. However, putting together practical, large-scale quantum computers remains…
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How gut bacteria share antibiotic resistance genes and fuel dangerous hospital infections
Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have uncovered how a high-risk class of genetic vectors can efficiently spread antibiotic resistance within the gut, enabling even highly…
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A new route to synthesize multiple functionalized carbon nanohoops
The field of nanomaterials is witnessing a transformative shift at the intersection of organic chemistry and molecular engineering. Among the most promising molecular structures are carbon nanohoops, of which [n]cycloparaphenylenes ([n]CPPs) are…
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Why Astronauts Quarantine Before—But Not After—Space Missions
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Last week, the first astronauts planning to orbit the moon in more than half a…
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Amazon’s 180 internet satellites are already too bright. It wants 3,000 more.
Amazon is racing to catch up to Starlink in the battle for satellite internet…
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Synthetic 'muscle' with microfluidic blood vessels shows promise for soft robotics
Researchers are continuing to make progress on developing a new synthetic material that behaves like biological muscle, an advancement that could provide a path to soft robotics, prosthetic devices and advanced human-machine interfaces. Their…
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Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies
Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from Germany, France and Sweden show that most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky…
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AI reveals 800 never-before-seen ‘cosmic anomalies’ in old Hubble images
January 27, 2026
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AI reveals 800 never-before-seen ‘cosmic anomalies’ in old Hubble images
Scientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts from a Hubble Space Telescope archive and found hundreds of…
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