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A group of Chinese researchers has created a robot with a brain made of human stem cells. The technology is technically a “brain-on-a-chip,” and the researchers have been working to train the robot to perform various tasks. The stem cell brain that powers the robot is attached to a neural interface chip, which powers the entire thing.
Tianjin University, one of the two institutes behind the new research, considers the design the world’s first open-source brain-on-chip system and says that it could lead to the development of more brain-like computing. The key to the entire design is an in-vitro cultured brain...

Terrifying new robot has a brain made from human stem cells

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Our fingernails know us so well that they can sometimes even tell us about our health. But there's a surprising amount we don't know about them, such as their unexpectedly precise sensitivity to the slightest touch. A study has found humans can identify where touch is applied to their fingernails...

Your Fingernails Have Unexpectedly Precise Sensory Capabilities

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By blowing atoms up to several hundred times their size, researchers have been able to make another type of oddly-behaving time crystal.

Scientists create weird 'time crystal' from atoms inflated to be hundreds of times bigger than normal

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Brain Wiring For Fundamental Behaviors May Be Written In The Genome, No Learning Required

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The history of science is a series of paradigm shifts—conventional theories debunked and replaced by new discoveries. Kanso Bioinspired Motion Lab at USC Viterbi School of Engineering has made a habit of such paradigm shifts, publishing their findings in leading journals. The lab's most recent paper, published in Nature...

Carpets and flames: Design rules for the morphology of ciliated organs

Scientists at the University of Malaga have shown, in an unprecedented way, how the so-called "elephant graveyard" of the Early Pleistocene archaeological site of Orce—a name given due to the amount of remains of the extinct elephant species Mammuthus meridionalis that it contained—hid a natural trap in quicksand.

Scientists find a natural quicksand trap dated to more than one million years ago in the 'elephant graveyard' of Orce

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Emily Standley Allard

Marriage is a significant life decision that requires extreme commitment, understanding, devotion and a heck of a lot of compromise. While many people dream of a lifelong partnership, others find the concept of marriage challenging. Astrology offers insights into personality traits and behaviors, suggesting that certain zodiac signs might face more difficulties in maintaining a traditional marital relationship. This article explores the five zodiac signs that are often considered less suited for marriage due to their unique characteristics and tendencies when it comes to lifelong commitment.

The 5 Zodiac Signs Not Meant for Matrimony

Women now cheat at rates near similar to men. Women often explain their infidelity as a result of a dissatisfying primary relationship. Only about 7 percent of women say they cheated because of how they felt about their affair partner. Why do women cheat? For affection? For revenge?. In most...

When Women Cheat, It's Usually for These 10 Reasons

New research from scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds a tiny freshwater parasite known to cause health problems in humans defends its colonies with a class of soldiers that cannot reproduce. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vaults this species...

Biologists discover human-infecting parasite produces sterile soldiers like ants and termites

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Sharks in the waters off Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, marine biologists said in a new study, marking the first time the drug has been found in the free-ranging predators. Thirteen sharpnose sharks were taken from the coast off of Rio de Janeiro and tested for the cocaine and benzoylecgonine, the primary molecule in cocaine. Each shark's liver and muscles tested positive for high levels of cocaine, the study found, and the female sharks tested had higher concentrations of cocaine in their muscles than male sharks. The scientists — who dubbed the study "Cocaine Shark" — posited that this may show...

"Cocaine sharks": Predators off Brazil coast test positive for drug

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In a peculiar discovery, scientists in Karnataka, India, observed a frog adorned with a mushroom growing from its skin, which they encountered during a routine wildlife expedition in the journal Reptiles & Amphibians.

Unusual Frog Found with Mushroom Growing on Its Skin in India

A new study led by Lluís Gibert at the University of Barcelona has re-dated human remains found at the Orce sites in Spain, making them the oldest in Europe at around 1.3 million years. This supports the hypothesis that early humans arrived in Europe through the Strait of Gibraltar...

Humans first arrived in Europe 1.3 million years ago, migrating out of Africa

Flirtatious expressions include a specific type of smile, along with other indications. Men can distinguish flirtatious expressions from merely happy ones. Quality relationship development includes much more than first impressions. You are meeting people at a party with friends, delighted to be making new acquaintances. You are also single and...

Friendly or Flirting: How Men Can Tell

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The team trained their robot using extensive motion capture data and dance videos, separately training the upper and lower body for better motion replication.

Dancing droids: Scientists teach humanoid robot sweet moves, high-fives, hugs

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(MA) Meet Gibson Band, a pocket-sized pup with a huge heart full of love. This 4-year-old Chihuahua grew up as an owned pup in a loving home. Unfortunately, Gibson's owners recently went through some unexpected life changes, and as such were no longer able to provide him with the care and love he needed. Now, Gibson is living safely with a foster family found through Great Dog Rescue New England. Despite loving his foster family, Gibson hopes he will not have to wait very long before he can make his final move to a furever home!

Tiny 8-Pound Chihuahua Searching For Love After Owner Forced To Surrender

We all have that one friend who keeps us guessing about where we stand with them. No matter how much we try to include them in our plans, share our thoughts or just be a good friend to them, our efforts always seem to fall flat. And when we try to talk to them about it, we often end up feeling even more confused.

3 Ways to Spot a Bad Friend From How They Speak to You

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

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Virginia soap fans, there is an update that might shift things in Salem. Julie Dove portrays the whacky Connie Viniski on Days of Our Lives. Virginia viewers, like those elsewhere, believe she murdered Li Shin (Remington Hoffman).

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Julie Dove teases that someone other than Connie may have murdered Li

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A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply


At the mere flick of a magnetic field, mice engineered with nanoparticle-activated 'switches' inside their brains were driven to feed, socialize, and act like clucky new mothers in an experiment designed to test an innovative research tool.



					
			

While 'mind control' animal experiments are far from new, they have generally relied on cumbersome electrodes tethering the subject to an external system, which not only requires invasive surgery but also sets limits on how freely the test subject can move about.
In what is claimed to be a breakthrough in neurology, researchers from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea have developed a...

Scientists 'Mind Controlled' Mice Remotely in Extraordinary World First

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Theseus' Ship and Immortal Jellyfish: Whole Body Regeneration and Identity

Some simple metazoans have the capacity to regenerate old tissues or their bodies. Imagination of whole-body regeneration in humans may raise philosophical questions about identity. When...

Theseus' Ship and Immortal Jellyfish: Whole Body Regeneration and Identity

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