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A spot robot equipped with a burner for weed removalSong, Deok-jin et al. (2024) Robot dogs equipped with burners could be used to prevent weeds from…

Frank Fife/AFP via Getty Images I’ve never been to the same gym as Eric Drinkwater, a sports scientist at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia — in…

Shutterstock/Paolo Paradiso For many runners, going faster is the primary goal of donning gear, but lately the opposite approach has been gaining popularity: the slow running…

Oxford PV solar module with layers of perovskite and siliconOxford PV The most efficient solar cells to date can convert nearly half of the sunlight that…

 Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes wild ideas for how to tinker with the universe and tests their effects against the laws of…

Jacqueline Gates of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory isolating livermorium atoms.Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab 2024 Regents of the University of California The third heaviest element in the universe…

A researcher plucks the feathers of a bird as part of an experiment to investigate Neanderthal cooking techniques.Mariana Navaiz To learn more about Neanderthal culinary talents,…

This is the first documented collision between a boat and a basking shark, meaning that the researchers were either lucky to capture the footage or that…

The Komodo dragon is a ferocious predator.Charlotte Ellis/Zoological Society of London Komodo dragons, some of the most ferocious reptiles on Earth, strengthen their teeth with iron…

The tipping point could be over as rich forests dry upPiotr Poznan/Shutterstock AI can predict when complex systems like forests, animal populations, and power grids will…