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Squirrel parkour: How leaping squirrels could inspire more nimble robots
While a squirrel’s life may look simple to human observers – climb, eat, sleep, repeat – it involves finely tuned cognitive skills.
Neurohacking: how to upgrade your mental abilities
Through self-tracking and self-experimentation, we can greatly improve our cognitive capacity.
What robots can learn from fish and fancy math
A new tuna robot leads the way to more agile underwater robots and drones.
The most famous popular science book ever written
Why I was prepared to hate The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but ended up loving it.
Is saving the panda a waste of time and money?
It is difficult to save a species that does not seem to care about saving itself.
What is static electricity? We may finally have an answer
This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.
German street names still echo Nazi, Communist, and even Roman past
Even 1500 years after the fall of Rome, its western border can still be seen on German street maps.
NASA wants future humans to find this time capsule in space
NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.
Science in the court: how neuroimaging can improve the “reasonable person” standard
For nearly two centuries, courts have relied on the subjective “reasonable person standard” to solve legal disputes. Now, science can help.