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A grasshopper-like soft material can jump 200 times above its thickness

EnlargeStefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography Superhumans don't exist in the real world, but someday you might see super robots. Obviously, robots can...

I am Superman: The Trek EXe mountain e-bike, reviewed

Enlarge / The Fuel EXe 9.9 XX1 AXS.Trek Bikes I rediscovered my bike after a few weeks in lockdown. At first, I...

Mercedes built a concept car for Avatar, and we drove it

Enlarge / Many concepts are static models, but Mercedes-Benz built one that works. At low speed, anyway.Mercedes-Benz When you think of the...

New find suggests ankylosaur’s tail clubs were for bashing each other

Enlarge / The tail clubs of ankylosaur species seem to have been used to bash each other rather than predators.Henry Sharpe New...

Were your teen years exhausting? School schedules may be why

EnlargeJetta Productions If you went to high school in the US, you may recall early morning extracurriculars, sleeping through first period algebra,...

Music on the brain: Listening can influence our brain’s activity

Enlarge People have long tried to use music as a tool to improve their abilities. Soldiers chanted songs when marching into battle,...

Examining the game industry’s hidden impacts on climate change

Enlarge / Water water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink...Getty Images | Aurich Lawson Amid the stress of living on...

Should we be trying to create a circular urine economy?

EnlargePeter Dazeley Removing urine from wastewater and using it as fertilizer has the potential to decrease nutrient loading in water bodies and...

Physics meets paleontology: The hotly debated mechanics of pterosaur flight

EnlargeJulius Csotonyi A group of researchers has recently made an astounding discovery. Using an innovative imaging technique, an international team of scientists...

How to go from eating mosquitos in Siberia to leading a NASA mission

Enlarge / Lindy Elkins-Tanton, second from left, and colleagues in Siberia.Scott Simper / ASU Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a Siberian-river-running, arc-welding, code-writing, patent-holding,...

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