Ground Robots Inherit the Kill Zone | Ukrainian roboticists build toward a human-free frontline

Nobody really wants to talk about their bowels, which might be part of why so many people quietly struggle with constipation for years. They’ve tried fiber, water, laxatives, whatever a friend said worked. For a substantial number of people, none of it works, and until now, doctors haven’t had a great explanation as to why….

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for example, stores approximately 123 billion tonnes of carbon — more than is stored in any other terrestrial ecosystem in the world. But these forests are facing a critical challenge. Research from 2023, which was carried…

Scientists develop AI that detects pancreatic cancer years before diagnosis in a major breakthrough  The Times of India

Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer and the oldest woman ever to go to space, died this past week. She was 87. She passed away on Wednesday, June 8th, at her apartment in an assisted living facility in Grapevine, a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. According to her caregiver, City Councilwoman Duff O’Dell, Funk…

The use of ultrathin 2D semiconductor materials promises to shrink transistors down to the nanometre scale. However, to achieve a substantial increase in the number of these transistors that can fit on a chip, it is necessary to scale down the metallic contacts that link them to external circuitry. So far, it has not been…

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