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Robot limbs

Technology

Electrostatic brakes make bendy robot arms a lot more efficient

Replacing motors with electrostatic brakes can boost the energy-efficiency of robot limbs, although the robots are slower

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Health

CRISPR nanocapsule limits growth of aggressive brain tumours in mice

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Photograph showing ambient light levels and the position of replica plaquettes in relation to the fire during experiment E.

Humans

Stone Age Europeans may have gathered to watch animations by the fire

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Environment

This year, we need to start taking our impact on the oceans seriously

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Comment

The sonic wonders of our world are under threat. We need to listen

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Humans

Rich countries must pay for the environmental damage they have wreaked

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This artist???s impression shows a two-star system where micronovae may occur. The blue disc swirling around the bright white dwarf in the centre of the image is made up of material, mostly hydrogen, stolen from its companion star. Towards the centre of the disc, the white dwarf uses its strong magnetic fields to funnel the hydrogen towards its poles. As the material falls on the hot surface of the star, it triggers a micronova explosion, contained by the magnetic fields at one of the white dwarf???s poles.

Space

Small explosions called micronovae discovered on dead stars

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Idea leuconoe butterfly

Environment

Climate change and farming may have halved some insect populations

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Tupandactylus full size ? Nicholls 2022: artist's reconstruction of the pterosaur.

Life

Pterosaur fossil suggests feathers may have evolved long before flight

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A model of a boat produced using the new 3D printing technique

Technology

Laser-based 3D printer can produce complex objects in any order

Existing 3D printers work by building up an object one layer at a time, making it difficult to produce some intricate shapes, but a new technique involving lasers could change that

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Technology

Surveillance drone saves power by deliberately crashing into walls

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Life

Dolphins who are hand-fed by tourists are less social than their peers

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Technology

UK prime minister’s office smartphones targeted by Pegasus spyware

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Mind

Man born blind has synaesthesia that makes numbers feel textured

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