Category: Life and Death
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Sensitive touch…
To develop a more human-like robotic gripper, it is necessary to provide sensing capabilities to the fingers. However, conventional sensors compromise the mechanical properties of soft robots. Now, scientists have designed a 3D printable soft robotic finger containing a built-in sensor with adjustable stiffness. Their work represents a big step toward safer and more dexterous…
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A wise man saying nothing. A young man speaking about everything…
Paleontologists have described for the first time an almost complete skeleton of a juvenile Plateosaurus and discovered that it looked very similar to its parents even at a young age. That could have important implications for how the young animals lived and moved around. The young Plateosaurus, nicknamed 'Fabian', was discovered in 2015 at the…
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Oxygen. Poison. Death. Flowers…
Much of life on planet Earth today relies on oxygen to exist, but before oxygen was present on our blue planet, lifeforms likely used arsenic instead. (1) Oxygen. Life-saving to-day. A poison in the early days. Arsenic. Death-bearer to-day. Life-giving element in the early days. Look around. We are all so sad to die. And…
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On the philosophical dogmas that support humans' belief in Death
Relative publication sites: PhilPapers Contents 1. Agonies that did not exist (Prelude) Once upon a time thinkers in ancient Greece laid the foundations of philosophy before philosophy even existed. Back then, Parmenides and Heraclitus tried to explain what being is in an era where no philosophical dogmas existed. Raw thinking was our tool back then…
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