PhD student Adriana Schulz was co-lead on AutoSaw, which lets nonexperts customize different items that can then be constructed with the help of robots.Photo: Jason…
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Month: February 2018
Snake-inspired robot uses kirigami to move
This soft robot is made using kirigami — an ancient Japanese paper craft that relies on cuts, rather than origami folds, to change the properties…
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Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon
The Marañón River flows though the Peruvian Andes, and is a major Amazon River tributary. The Peruvian government is planning to build several major dams…
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Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo
A court in the Republic of Congo has convicted three men of killing elephants for their tusks, and sentenced them to five years in jail…
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New study: Radar reveals bats are a bellwether of climate change
Scientists know that bats boost the profits of farmers by fertilizing crops and keeping hungry insects in check. According to recent research, they also could…
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How a nuclear attack on North Korea would add to global cancer epidemic
Visitors to Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea at the border of North Korea and South Korea on Jan. 1, 2018. AP Photo/Lee Jin-man With…
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Why deporting the ‘Dreamers’ is immoral
Immigrants and activists demonstrate in front of the Republican Party headquarters in Washington AP Photo/Luis Alonso Lugo On Feb. 26, the U.S. Supreme Court refused…
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African rhythms, ideas of sin and the Hammond organ: A brief history of gospel music’s evolution
A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony of Virginia in 1619 after…
View More African rhythms, ideas of sin and the Hammond organ: A brief history of gospel music’s evolutionInternational adoptions have dropped 72 percent since 2005 – here’s why
When Ethiopia stopped allowing its children to be adopted by foreign parents in January, it became the latest country to eliminate or sharply curtail the…
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Nebraskans who support and oppose ‘religious freedom’ laws actually share many of the same values
In the case of wedding cake. AP Photo/David Zalubowski Religious freedom legislation highlights political division in the U.S., pitting conservative Christians against LGBTQ people and…
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