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Super-strong robot pulls heavy loads
- Published_at:2015-04-24
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- Channel:New Scientist
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- description: Full story: http://bit.ly/1DHNohp Two robots borrow techniques from both inchworms and geckos to climb up walls while carrying huge loads
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Wild chimps take care before crossing the road
- Published_at:2015-04-17
- Category:Pets & Animals
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- description: Full story: http://bit.ly/1ImjAeo A busy highway in Uganda is a potential death trap, but chimps have learned to look before running across, and they even wait for those less able to cross
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MRI movie peers inside cracking knuckles
- Published_at:2015-04-15
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- description: Full story: http://bit.ly/1HsL3wQ MRI scans of a man's fingers being pulled until his joints popped disproves the theory that the noise comes from the collapse of an air bubble
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Self-fuelled liquid metal motor
- Published_at:2015-03-10
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- Channel:New Scientist
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- description: Full story: http://bit.ly/1NOfwb3 A metal alloy that powers its own movement and deforms to get through tight spots could let us to build a Terminator 2 style robot (minus homicidal tendencies)
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Watch a praying mantis perform acrobatic jumps
- Published_at:2015-03-05
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- Channel:New Scientist
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- description: Full story: http://bit.ly/1M8Gl6a Detailed videos of leaping mantises reveal how they twist their bodies and limbs to reach their targets
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Four-finned robot swims like a cuttlefish
- Published_at:2015-01-12
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- description: Full story: http://bit.ly/1FM2GZx By copying the undulating swimming skills of cuttlefish, a low-key underwater robot is able to tackle obstacles in its way
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Sea ghost breaks record for deepest living fish
- Published_at:2014-12-19
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- Channel:New Scientist
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- description: Full story: http://bit.ly/1r3msch A newly-discovered species with a bizarre body has been spotted deeper down than any other living fish
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Why aliens probably exist
- Published_at:2014-12-11
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- Channel:New Scientist
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- description: Full story: http://bit.ly/1scCG3H First, try not to think about what alien life might be like. Then wonder whether we have any chance of finding it
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Floating touchscreen lets you feel virtual objects
- Published_at:2014-10-28
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- description: Full story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26463 HaptoMime uses reflective surfaces to create a floating virtual screen that you can actually feel
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Cellphone use tracks holiday population shifts
- Published_at:2014-10-28
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- Channel:New Scientist
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- description: Full story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26460 Phone calls show France pulsing like a beating heart, as people converge on Paris from Monday to Friday, before heading out to the countryside at weekends
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Rubbery robot walks through flames and snow
- Published_at:2014-09-05
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- description: Full story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26164 It may look like a softy, but this robot is a rugged survivor that can survive fire, ice and getting squashed by a car
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How Europe's borders changed over 2000 years
- Published_at:2014-09-03
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- Channel:New Scientist
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- description: Full story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329850.600 Nation states cause some of our biggest problems, from civil war to climate inaction. Science suggests there are better ways to run a planet
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Lego-like bricks could build bendy robots
- Published_at:2014-08-07
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- description: Full story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26015 Roboticists are building unusual sculptures and tools using flexible, translucent Lego-type bricks – which the bots will be able to play with as well
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Physics-minded crow brings Aesop's fable to life
- Published_at:2014-03-26
- Category:Pets & Animals
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- description: Full story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25303 Using stones to raise water in a pitcher isn't just the stuff of fiction: experiments show that crows have an understanding of water displacement
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Soap-bubble cyclone is a mini deadly storm
- Published_at:2014-01-28
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- description: Heating soap bubbles from underneath creates vortices that are the baby brothers of huge cyclones -- even Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot. Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129530.100
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Metallic spermbots could help with fertilisation
- Published_at:2013-12-12
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- description: Tiny hybrid robots could shepherd individual sperm to eggs to help fertilisation, or to deliver targeted doses of drugs Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24721-how-do-you-control-a-spermbot-try-a-magnetic-field.html
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Four-winged robot flies like a jellyfish
- Published_at:2013-11-25
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- description: With a shape that looks more at home beneath the waves, the light robot could float wherever the breeze takes it, taking environmental measurements as it goes Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24638
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Taste simulator lets you sample virtual food
- Published_at:2013-11-20
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- description: An electrode that can produce the taste of salty, sweet, bitter and sour food could make gaming tastier and help in healthcare too Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029444.500
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Electro-cosmetics control gadgets
- Published_at:2013-10-16
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- Channel:New Scientist
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- description: A new range of conducting cosmetics lets wearers activate electronics with a flip of their eyelids Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24412
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Piano projections help you play a tune
- Published_at:2013-10-02
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- Channel:New Scientist
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- description: A colourful keyboard projection system helps novices learn to play the piano without reading music Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24296
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Robot plant learns to grow like the real thing
- Published_at:2013-08-09
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- description: Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24018 A new system mimics the behaviour of roots and could help create robots that can adapt to many different facets of their environment
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How apes swim and dive
- Published_at:2013-08-08
- Category:Pets & Animals
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- description: Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24010 The first detailed observations of swimming in chimpanzees and orang-utans show they take to the water as humans do
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