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Pleco, the world?s lightest autonomous waterless solar panel cleaning robot. The robot is specifically designed to handle the unique safety and efficiency challenges involved in cleaning C&I installations.

Technology

Solar panel cleaning robot can be dropped off and picked up by drone

Dirty solar panels reduce global solar energy output as much as 5 per cent, but a start-up in Israel has tested drone delivery of a new autonomous robot to clean rooftop arrays

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Self-assembled colony formed by wild S. muelleri suspended in solution (see Movie 1) https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.10.523506

Life

Multicellular life may have begun with brief alliances between cells

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Health

US childhood obesity guidelines may rush the use of drugs or surgery

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One large prairie vole stands against a smaller vole against a white background

Life

鈥楲ove hormone’ may not be crucial for social bonding after all

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Countries such as the UK, Mexico and South Africa have a tax on sugary drinks

Health

Taxing sugary drinks may not cut obesity as much as headlines claim

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An image of tents set up on an urban street

Society

We can reduce homelessness if we follow the science on what works

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The tiny hand of a preterm baby

Health

Preterm babies have a similar BMI at adolescence to peers born at term

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An aerial shot of Li River and Mashan Mountain in Yangshuo County, Guilin

Earth

Earth’s ‘geological thermostat’ is too slow to prevent climate change

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Cancer cells of different sizes

Health

The size of skin cancer cells may affect how they respond to treatment

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Proteins, illustration

Technology

AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scratch 鈥� and they work

An AI was tasked with creating proteins with anti-microbial properties. Researchers then created a subset of the proteins and found some did the job

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Space

Supernovae might be a good place to hunt for alien broadcasts

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Space

鈥楩orbidden鈥� planet somehow escaped consumption by its dying host star

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Technology

The US government is suing Google 鈥� again

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Health

Why gene variant impairing alcohol breakdown raises heart disease risk

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