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15:45 • 13.05.19South Korea to develop bioinspired military robots for future warfareIf it proceeds as planned, several kinds of biobots, which replicate humans and insects, are expected to be deployed as early as 2024, DAPA said, adding that robots ...
11:43 • 10.05.19Jeff Bezos unveils Moon lander conceptMr Bezos presented the Moon goals of his space exploration company Blue Origin at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC ...
12:33 • 09.05.19People with removed appendix ‘three times more likely’ to develop Parkinson’s diseaseA Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center study of over 62 million patients found who that had had the operation ...
11:23 • 08.05.19Missing part of Stonehenge returned to site 60 years onIn 1958 archaeologists raised an entire fallen trilithon - a set of three large stones, consisting of two that would have stood upright with the third ...
16:40 • 07.05.19Microsoft Word launches AI feature 'to improve writing'It will help users lay out different parts of a document, including tables, and suggest synonyms and alternative phrases to make writing more ...
13:11 • 07.05.19Humanity must save insects 'to save ourselves', leading scientist warns“Insects are the glue in nature and there is no doubt that both the [numbers] and diversity of insects are declining,” said Prof Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. “At some stage ...
11:51 • 07.05.19Leonardo da Vinci suffered from 'claw hand,' not post-stroke paralysis, study findsIn a new paper in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, two Italian researchers argue that Leonardo more likely suffered from a condition colloquially known as ...
14:03 • 06.05.19Nature crisis: UN report details threat to speciesThree years in the making, this global assessment of nature draws on 15,000 reference materials, and has been compiled by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy ...
11:03 • 06.05.19Japan sends first private rocket into spaceThe unmanned rocket named MOMO-3 took off Saturday from a test site in Taiki on the northern Japanese island of Hokkiado ...
15:45 • 03.05.19‘First plane in history’ to fly without wing flaps displayedThe Magma model is flown by blowing air from its engine at supersonic speeds through slots in the wings. The technology is lighter, more reliable and cheaper ...
10:07 • 02.05.19Egypt ‘not home’ to world's oldest mummiesThe Chinchorro people settled in coastal bays of the Atacama Desert, in what is present-day Chile, around 7,000 BC and developed a technique ...
11:22 • 01.05.19Zuckerberg reveals changes to Facebook appsThe new designs and features for its apps are a direct response to widespread criticism of how the firm protects user data. Mr Zuckerberg said ...
10:58 • 01.05.19Labor Day 2019: Google launches special doodle to celebrate intn’l holidayThe day originated in the US in the 19th century when the labour union movement rose up against unjust working conditions and demanded better pay ...
09:33 • 01.05.19Indian army claims to have spotted fingerprints of yetiThe army tweeted to its nearly six million followers on Monday that it had discovered "mysterious footprints of mythical beast 'Yeti' at the Makalu Base Camp ...
12:37 • 27.04.19Hundreds of thousands of viruses found in oceansResearchers at Ohio State University drew up a global map of marine viruses based on seawater samples from nearly 80 sites around the world. Their viral ...