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Robotic hand uses compliant materials to grasp objects with human-like dexterity
ADAPT robotic hand (Adaptive Dexterous Anthropomorphic Programmable sTiffness). Credit: CREATE Lab EPFL A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously,…
Trump shifts US foreign energy funding to fossil fuel expansion
From Africa to Southeast Asia, the Trump administration is cancelling US support for projects designed to replace coal, oil and gas with clean energy, pushing instead for the use of…
Why do cuts to Medicaid matter for Americans over 65? 2 experts on aging explain why lives are at stake
Republicans in Congress intend to cut about US$880 billion in federal health care spending. One of their primary targets is Medicaid. That government program covers 82 million Americans with health…
DJI Mavic 4 Pro drone review
With a spring in its step, or should that say flight, the DJI Mavic 4 Pro has launched to meet, and in many cases, exceed expectations of drone pilots around…
How to make electric vehicles that don’t trash forests with mining
Perrine Fournier is a forest and mining campaigner at forests and rights NGO Fern. Our fossil fuel addiction must end for humanity to have a livable future. An important element in…
Study finds no increased risk of gynecological cancer with testosterone use after five years
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Transmasculine and gender-diverse individuals who use testosterone are not at increased risk of gynecological cancer in the first years of hormone therapy. This is evident from…
Why OCD, Tics, and ADHD Keep You Up at Night
Summary: People with obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSDs), chronic tic disorders (CTDs), and ADHD often suffer from significant sleep disturbances, and a new review suggests that disruptions in the cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical (CSTC)…
Roman coin hoard among largest discovered in Romania
A metal detectorist has unearthed a giant coin hoard from the Roman period near the village of Letţa Veche in southern Romania. The discovery was made by Bebe Mangeac while…
Space weather can dramatically alter a planet’s fate
This artist’s illustration shows TRAPPIST-1e, a well-known rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. New research examines how stellar flaring could alter the evolution of atmospheres…
