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Robot dog trains to walk on Moon in Oregon trials

[ad_1] A multidisciplinary team has been given a two-year $2 million grant to help Nasa prepare to study the Moon's surface. The LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments) Project is formed by professionals from Nasa, the University of Southern California, Texas A&M University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania. [ad_2] Source link
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Boom times for US green energy as federal cash flows in

[ad_1] In February US company LanzaJet, which produces sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from ethanol, announced that it intended to build a second, larger plant on US soil.The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a "big influence", says Jimmy Samartzis, its chief executive.The second plant would add to its facility in Soperton, Georgia - the world's first commercial scale ethanol-to-SAF plant."We have a global landscape that we are pursuing…[but] we have doubled
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The rise of magnets – from surgery to outer space

[ad_1] The tiny, tweezer-like set of metal jaws was in place. Gently gripping the patient's gall bladder. But the grasping device was not physically connected to anything - it appeared to be levitating inside the person's body. In reality, the jaws were being controlled remotely by a robot arm wielding a special magnet."We could see the critical structures, the blood vessels," says Dr Matthew Kroh of the Cleveland Clinic in
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Neuralink video shows patient playing chess using brain implant

[ad_1] In a livestream on X, patient Noland Arbaugh explained that he was playing a game of chess online using a device in his brain to move the cursor.He appeared in the video beside Neuralink’s brain interface software lead Bliss Chapman, and answered questions about how the technology worked, saying that it required him to “imagine the cursor moving”. The 29-year-old said he had become paralysed from the shoulders down
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Fake news ‘travels faster’, study finds

[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images A study of 126,000 rumours and false news stories spread on Twitter over a period of 11 years found that they travelled faster and reached more people than the truth.Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also found that fake news was more commonly re-tweeted by humans than bots.They said it could be because fake news tends to be "more novel".The most common subject matter
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Burger-flipping robot taken offline after one day

[ad_1] Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWATCH: Flippy the burger robot gets to work Flippy the burger-flipping robot that started work this week in a California restaurant has been forced to take a break because it was too slow.The robot was installed at a Cali Burger outlet in Pasadena and replaced human cooks.But after just one day at work the robot has been taken offline so it
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Obamas ‘in talks to make Netflix shows’

[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are in talks to produce shows for Netflix, according to the New York Times.The couple would make exclusive content for the US streaming site focused on uplifting stories, the paper suggested.If confirmed, the deal would give a global platform for the Obamas, bypassing mainstream US media such as Fox News.Netflix told the BBC it had no