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Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a ...

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We are living in a vaccine-hesitant moment, with conspiracy theories thriving on social media. We need to push back, says ...

Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren't exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous ...

When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the ...

Asian elephants at Berlin Zoo show impressive skill when using a hose as a tool, and even appear to sabotage each other by stopping the flow of water ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...

Allowing for moves that create quantum superpositions makes a quantum version of a Rubik’s cube incredibly complex, but not impossible to solve ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...