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Robot dog learning to walk in the woods

Technology

Robot dog learns to walk on tough terrain in just 20 minutes

Grass lawns and hiking trails are no problem for this robot, which learned to walk on them on the fly thanks to a machine learning algorithm

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A drawing of one of Subsea Cloud's data centre pods

Technology

Underwater data centre in the Pacific could be running by end of year

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Packets of drugs in woman's hands

Health

Drugs that mutate viruses to kill them could make them more dangerous

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Space

JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere 鈥� and a mystery

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Environment

Rewetting dried wetlands could stop 100 billion tons of CO2 emissions

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Sleeping mouse

Mind

Rapid eye movements during sleep reveal where mice look in dreams

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A beam of red light shines through a series of four lenses within a telescope-like device

Technology

Anti-laser can make any object suck in light

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Artist Ciaran Gallagher painting a mural in Belfast depicting the candidates vying to be the next UK prime minister

Technology

Tory leadership contest’s online vote is still vulnerable to hackers

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Crumpled beige polyethylene. Folds create abstract pattern with shadows and lights

Physics

Researchers have worked out the rules for how some things wrinkle

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Synthetic (left) and natural (right) embryos to show comparable brain and heart formation.

Health

Synthetic mouse embryos with rudimentary brain grown in the lab

Embryo-like structures grown in an incubator instead of a uterus could lead to better treatments for infertility and a range of other medical conditions

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Physics

Best evidence yet that fifth fundamental 鈥榗hameleon鈥� force isn鈥檛 real

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Environment

Most days could be dangerously hot for 5 billion people by 2100

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Health

A common childhood illness could be behind ‘tomato flu’ outbreak

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Technology

Wafer-thin cameras with long focal lengths are theoretically possible

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