Spotting ants around your property is bound to happen from time to time, but seeing an abundance of ants? There might be a colony that’s invited themselves to move in with you. Finding an overwhelming amount of ants in or around certain areas of…
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The Download: How China’s universities approach AI, and the pitfalls of welfare algorithms
Just two years ago, students in China were told to avoid using AI for their assignments. At the time, to get around a national block on ChatGPT, students had to buy a mirror-site version from a secondhand marketplace. Its use was common, but it…
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China’s humanoid robot achieves human-like motion with 31 joints
Chinese robotics firm PND Robotics has unveiled a one-stop data acquisition solution package in partnership with Noitom Robotics and Inspire Robots. It is based on the Adam-U hardware platform.
Currently open for pre-orders, the platform will…
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The evolution of Western blotting imaging
One lab technique that has been around since what feels like the dawn of time is Western blotting, and it doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. Utilized by scientists worldwide, the Western…
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Negative Capacitance Breaks GaN Transistor Limits
Integrating an electronic material that exhibits a strange property called negative capacitance can help high-power gallium nitride transistors break through a performance barrier, say scientists in California. Research published in Science…
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5 science facts that come from simply watching the Moon
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Australian scientists uncover new way to halt aggressive cancer growth
Australian researchers have discovered a promising new strategy to suppress the growth of aggressive and hard-to-treat cancers by targeting a specialized molecular process known as ‘minor splicing’.
Published in EMBO Reports, the…
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A Hidden Heat Source on Uranus Just Changed What We Know About Planets
Uranus isn’t as cold as it seems — scientists found it’s still leaking ancient heat. Scientists have discovered that Uranus gives off more heat than it takes in from the Sun, revealing that the planet still holds onto internal heat left…
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Fourier to unveil world’s most ‘adorable’ humanoid robot next week
Fourier Robotics, the Shanghai-based robotics firm behind the GR-1 and GR-2 models, is preparing to launch its GR-3 humanoid robot on August 6.
Early glimpses of the new robot, including a sneak-peek video, reveal a smaller, friendlier…
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Astronomers Just Caught a Giant Baby Planet Sculpting Spirals in Space
Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted a potential planet embedded in the disc’s…
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