Slingshot spider launches itself 100 times faster than cheetah by creating spring coils in its web – and experts say the design could improve robots Launched from a spring-like web, the acrobatic arachnid reaches speeds of 4,300 feet per second Almost 1/25 inch long, it can take off much larger …
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BlackBerry is back! Texas startup set to rebuild popular smartphone in 2021 that will include 5G, a physical keyboard and security level BlackBerry announced in February the end of its partnership with TCL TCL produced the smartphone, which meant it had to be stopped A Texas startup has received the …
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US Army develops self-healing and shape-shifting material that can lead to ‘Terminator-style’ drones morphing to adapt to new threats The U.S. military is in the early stages of designing a self-healing, shape-shifting material The material will have features of the T-1000 character of Terminator 2 It has a shape memory …
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Researchers have discovered what they believe was the unusual last meal of a prehistoric pup that lived 14,000 years ago. After a reanalysis of the mummified rooster, the team found preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros that was hidden in the stomach – complete with the yellow fur of the …
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Exploding stars – or ‘supernovae’ – at least 65 light-years from Earth, could have unleashed devastating mass extinction events about 359 million years ago. The extinction of the Late Devonian saw 50 percent of all genera – groups of species – and 19 percent of all families disappear, the next …
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