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Nightmare fish may explain how our 'fight or flight' response evolved - Livescience.com

Joanna Thompson

Lampreys are the stuff of nightmares, complete with long, slimy bodies; circular mouths filled with teeth; and parasitic tendencies. But lampreys are also vertebrates, which means they have backbon ...[Continue Reading]

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Scientists Measure X-Rays From Particularly Dangerous Upward Lightning For First Time - ScienceAlert

Michelle Starr

The way we think about lightning tends to be somewhat directional. It arcs down from the sky in cracking streams of electricity, the very symbol of the might of the storm. But downward isn't always ...[Continue Reading]

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Einstein Probe X-ray telescope releases 1st images taken with 'lobster vision' - Space.com

Keith Cooper

A joint Chinese and European X-ray telescope mission called Einstein Probe is successfully viewing the universe in widescreen, with a telescope design that mimics the eyes of lobsters. Einstein Pr ...[Continue Reading]

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'We are ready:' New NASA documentary looks ahead to Artemis 2 moon mission (video) - Space.com

Jeff Spry

All necks will be craned toward the heavens next year when NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket blasts the Artemis 2 mission toward the moon. Artemis 2 will launch four astronauts around the ...[Continue Reading]

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1 day ago


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Robot Masters Terrain with Animal-Like Gait Transitions - Neuroscience News

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Summary: Researchers leveraged deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to enable a robot to adaptively switch gaits, mimicking animal movements like trotting and pronking, to traverse complex terrains effe ...[Continue Reading]

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1 day ago


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T. rex is at the center of a debate over dinosaur intelligence - KSL.com

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WASHINGTON Surmising even the physical appearance of a dinosaur or any extinct animal based on its fossils is a tricky proposition, with so many uncertainties involved. Assessing a dinosaur's intelli ...[Continue Reading]

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