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958 / Same shape for the same purpose
If you unearth an artefact with the same shape and used for the same purpose…
957 / Phonemes bond with emotions
If you are too slow in catching a bird, you may get another chance; but…
955 / Penguins can teach us one trick
Imagine a place where the air temperature can drop to minus forty (-40)) Celsius and…
953 / Enabling a robot to sense touch
A squeeze in the arm, a pat on the shoulder, or a slap in the…
952 / Things get itchy easily out there
A great deal of medicine and thoughts that astronauts take to space addresses the unusual…
951 / Why we say “Bye,” not “Goodbye”
We tend to lessen physical effort in almost everything we do, including using language. We…
950 / Real-world systems evolve always
Biological, social and economic schemes are some of the real-world systems we are most familiar…
949 / Beyond vision: opsins that taste
New research has it that evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer. It echoes what…
948 / From fish to four-limbed animals
Tetrapods are four-limbed animals. Therefore the discovery of a “tetrapod-like” fish called Elpistostege is intriguing….
947 / Politics and a biometric bracelet
In a thought experiment of historian Yuval Noah Harari, a hypothetical government insists that every…
946 / Caught in a series of silly walks
“The Ministry of Silly Walks” is a sketch from a Monty Python comedy troupe’s TV…
945 / Forecasting the spread of anything
These days we hear a lot about people affected by COVID-19 and also about people…