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Tiny robots designed to carry out environmental or industrial tasks could be powered by tricks involving surface tension ...

Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived ...

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Determining when someone died based on their decomposing body is a subjective task, but artificial intelligence could bring ...

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