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An origami-inspired robot arm made with material from cotton plants and pigs biodegrades when no longer needed. Such a soft ...

Elon Musk's DOGE task force is reportedly being given unchecked access to the computers that run the US government, and ...

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Turning old fighter jets into a fine powder and using that to 3D print new components is a more sustainable way to build the ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

An experiment in which people were asked to choose random numbers or boxes on a grid, then do the same a year later, has ...

A tiny chip on the tip of a fibre-optic cable can passively harness light to perform AI computations, dramatically reducing ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun could be used to solve many mysteries, from the ...