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Czech sculptor creates 3D-printed floating house
A Czech sculptor has teamed up with a group of architects to create a 3D-printed house prototype that could become a holiday home for the future.
The house is being printed from special concrete in the southern Czech city of Ceske…
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Robots: Allies during virus crisis, enemies later?
When human contact needs to be kept to a minimum, robots can save lives and factories. But when the coronavirus crisis is over, will they amplify job losses?
It may be a mechanized arm pulling beers in a Seville bar, a dog-like dispenser…
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New spider species named after Greta
Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg can add to her list of personal accolades, including TIME magazine's Person of the Year, a group of spiders named after her.
Thunberga gen. nov. is a new genus of huntsman spiders from Madagascar,…
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Melting Glaciers Cool the Southern Ocean – Might Explain the Recent Antarctic Cooling and Sea Ice…
Tucked away at the very bottom of the globe surrounding Antarctica, the Southern Ocean has never been easy to study. Its challenging conditions have placed it out of reach to all but the most intrepid explorers. For climate modelers,…
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Precision Spray Coating Could Enable Solar Cells With Better Stability and Performance
Although perovskites are a promising alternative to the silicon used to make most of today’s solar cells, new manufacturing processes are needed to make them practical for commercial production. To help fill this gap, researchers have…
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Half the Earth Relatively Intact From Global Human Influence – Clear Opportunities to Conserve What…
Roughly half of Earth’s ice-free land remains without significant human influence, according to a study from a team of international researchers led by the National Geographic Society and the University of California, Davis.
The study,…
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Artificial Brains Need Sleep Too – Desperate AI Researchers Discover Way to Stabilize Neuromorphic…
No one can say whether androids will dream of electric sheep, but they will almost certainly need periods of rest that offer benefits similar to those that sleep provides to living brains, according to new research from Los Alamos National…
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World’s largest green turtle colony nearly twice as big as thought
The world's largest population of nesting green turtles is nearly twice as big as previously thought, scientists said on Wednesday, after drones enabled better surveys of the animals.
Australian scientists determined that there were about…
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Biblically mislabeled, Israel’s griffon vultures get new lease of life
The griffon vulture is not only ungainly, smelly and endangered: it is also often denied its biblical fame by being mixed up with the eagle.
But for a network of Israeli conservationists, the bird still has pride of place in the land whose…
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“Mirror Image” of the Earth and Sun Discovered 3000 Light-Years Away
The star Kepler-160 and its companion KOI-456.04 are more reminiscent of the Sun-Earth system than any previously known exoplanet-star pair.
Among the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, KOI-456.04 is something special: less than twice the…
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