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Underwater drone

Technology

Diving drone can switch between flying and swimming

A drone that can fly like a standard quadcopter but also operate underwater could be developed as a tool for engineers and search and rescue teams

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Three smokestacks from a coal-burning power plant send up plumes of white smoke into a blue sky

Environment

US megadrought has led to more air pollution from power plants

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Human sperm

Health

Sperm-sorting device aims to find healthy samples to boost IVF success

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Central Henge, Thornborough Henges. ?Historic England Archive

Humans

Neolithic complex dubbed 鈥楽tonehenge of the North鈥� opens to UK public

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2HJ1JYB Buildings in the near north side Chicago skyline bask in the late evening sun not long before sunset.

Environment

Smart cladding could control whether buildings retain or emit heat

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Part of the setup for creating medium density amorphous ice

Physics

Entirely new type of ice made using extremely cold steel balls

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3D illustration of a wormhole or Einstein?Rosen bridge is a hypothetical topological feature that would be a shortcut connecting

Space

Wormholes could magnify light by a factor of 100,000

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An extensive erupting prominence taken on 15 May, 2001 -- Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun's hot, thin corona. At times, they can erupt, escaping the Sun's atmosphere. Emission in this spectral line of EIT 304? shows the upper chromosphere at a temperature of about 60,000 degrees K. The hottest areas appear almost white, while the darker red areas indicate cooler temperatures.

Space

Sunquakes may be caused by weird beams of electrons from solar flares

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A rat brain (red) with a grafted human brain organoid (green)

Health

Human neurons implanted into a rat’s brain respond to flashing lights

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A woman singing while standing on a couch

Technology

Google AI generates musical backing tracks to accompany singers

An artificial intelligence called SingSong can take a recording of a person singing and create a backing track for it with the appropriate rhythm, key and harmonies

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Technology

US military plan to create huge autonomous drone swarms sparks concern

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Life

Should we be worried about bird flu spreading to mammals?

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Technology

Flying robot echolocates like a bat to avoid banging into walls

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Health

Antidepressants mostly can’t treat chronic pain, despite wide use

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