Category: Existence
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Interactions. Robots. Dead flowers…
Researchers have created a low-cost method for soft, deformable robots to detect a range of physical interactions, from pats to punches to hugs, without relying on touch at all. Instead, a USB camera located inside the robot captures the shadow movements of hand gestures on the robot’s skin and classifies them with machine-learning software. (1)…
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Lungs and limbs… Fish and wolves…
Lungs and limbs have been thought of as key innovations that came with the vertebrate transition from water to land. But in fact, the genetic basis of air-breathing and limb movement was already established in our fish ancestor 50 million years earlier, according to a recent genome mapping of primitive fish. The new study changes…
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Birds in a cave…
Bird species that live in their natural habitats can help zoos learn how to manage those in captivity, according to a new review. (1) Catch me if you can. Sleeping. Talking. Inside a cave. Nothing to see but yourself. Can you feel it? Wanting to sing. Because you were flying free once. Even though you…
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Fish. Stories. Walking beyond that tree…
If you look deep into the eyes of a fish, it will tell you its life story. Scientists demonstrate that they can use stable isotopic analysis of the eye lenses of freshwater fish — including threatened and endangered salmon — to reveal a fish’s life history and what it ate along the way. (1) Look…
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Irrational Thoughts: Why something exists?
Part of ‘Beyond the wall of Existence’ project: An attempt to propose new ideas to solve the great philosophical mysteries of Existence and Being. One of the greatest questions of all time is how the world exists. Why is the matter that we see here? The most fundamental of questions. Where it all began. Why…
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