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Watch a robot with living muscles walk through water

A tiny, biohybrid robot moves by contracting lab-grown muscle tissue in its legs 鈥� but it needs help to stand up in a water tank and it tops out at just 5.4 millimetres per minute

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Environment

Lab-engineered cow cells could slash the cost of cultured meat

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Chemistry

The chemist who told us to put salt in our tea explains why she did it

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Mind

Learning piano triggers complex changes to your brain’s activity

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Mind

Writing things down may help you remember information more than typing

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Artist's impression of a cloud of smoke and dust being thrown out by a red giant star

Space

Newly discovered smoking stars emit huge clouds and we don’t know why

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Space

Japan’s rolling and hopping lunar rovers send back images of the moon

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Space

Mysterious black hole jets may be the source of powerful cosmic rays

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Rebus that works out as Beethoven

Technology

Silicon Valley鈥檚 top AI models are terrible at rebus wordplay puzzles

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Life

Dinosaurs evolved feathers to scare prey, suggests robot experiment

Experiments with a robotic dinosaur suggest feathers may have evolved to startle prey into fleeing from hiding places, a strategy used by some modern birds

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Life

Tiny marsupials sacrifice sleep for sex during the breeding season

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Life

Owls may actually be able to turn their heads a full 360 degrees

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Space

Pancake-like comets may be made by whirling clouds of pebbles

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Life

Exquisite Jurassic fossils reveal cannibalism in ancient fish

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