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Robotic Motion In Curved Space Defies Common Laws of Physics

Experimental realization of a swimmer on a sphere with actuated motors on a freely rotating boom arm. Credit: Georgia Tech When humans, animals, also machines move throughout the world, they always press against something, whether it is the ground, air, or water. Until currently, physicists thought this to be a constant, following the law of...

Poor English Skills? New AIs Help Scientists To Write Better

Illustration by The Project Twins When Yanina Bellini Saibene has started her career in information science at the National Institute of Agricultural Innovation in La Pampa, Argentina, she was not fluent in English. She had learned a little English at secondary school. However, her family could not afford the added courses she would have required...

Brazilian Amazon Records Worst August For Fires In 12 Years

Aerial view of a burnt area in the Amazon rainforest, near the Lago do Cunia Extractive Reserve, on the border of the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, northern Brazil, on August 31, 2022. According to official data launched Thursday, the Brazilian Amazon recorded its worst month of August for forest fires since 2010, with an...

James Webb Telescope Has Already Begun Changing Models And Baffling Scientists

“Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina Nebula Astronomers' beliefs are The famed James Webb Space Telescope, released 8 months back and orbiting the sun a million miles from Earth, has begun bringing up several questions for astronomers as its striking images flood in. Unsurprisingly, the telescope has offered some intriguing and exciting observations of the very distant universe....

Dozens of Beaches Polluted with Sewage After Heavy Rain

Credit: Unsplash Pollution warnings were put in place on dozens of beaches in England and Wales after untreated sewage was released into the sea around the coast. Official data reveals a range of discharges on the 15th of this month, which Southern Water claims are to protect residences and companies. The contamination follows a phase of heavy...

500 million-year-old Mystery of Creature with no Anus Solved

A Powerful X-ray scanning techniques revealed the 1mm creature in perfect detail. Credit: P Donoghue et al/University of Bristol. Researchers share that they have solved an evolutionary puzzle of a 500 million-year-old microscopic, creature with a mouth yet no anus. When discovered in 2017, it was reported that the small sack-like aquatic creature's fossil might be...

Cultured Meat Is Currently Being Mass-Produced In Israel

New Future Meat Technologies cultured meat production facility located in Rehovot, Israel. Credit: Future Meat Technologies. Our objective is to make cultured meat affordable for everyone. Israeli startup Future Meat Technologies has opened what it states is the first industrial-scale cultured meat manufacturing facility- a move designed to obtain lab-grown meat onto consumers' plates finally. "Our objective...

Deep-Sea Surveys Reveal Thousands of Mystery Holes on the Seafloor

Thousands of mysterious holes have been discovered on the ocean floor not far from the Californian coast. Thousands of secret holes have been found on the seafloor after deep-sea surveys. The Earth's oceans are anything, however, explored. According to reports, humans have managed to explore regarding 5% of the ocean floor. The remaining 95% of the...

Elon Musk is Reportedly Considering Investment in Neuralink’s Rival Brain Chip Company

Neuralink, a company co-founded by Elon Musk, has been working on an implantable brain machine interface since 2016. While it previously showed its progress by showing a Macaque ape managing the cursor in a game of Pong, it still has to start human tests. Now, according to Reuters, Elon Musk has reached out to...

Food Production Impacts Earth and Its Natural Processes

According to new research, food production is already one of the biggest stressors to our planet, but it has made substantially more challenging by the interaction of Earth system processes. Earth system procedures refer to the natural activities that maintain the planet in a habitable and also useful state. This includes procedures occurring in the...