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KangaRobot: How Animals Inspire Machines
Through long-term evolutionary processes, animals have developed innate advantages in locomotion, cognition, information processing and control. Inspired by their evolution,
Artificial Intelligence: Too Smart for the Law?
Gone are the days when artificial intelligence was simply viewed as self-driving cars and talking robots. The Cambridge Analytica scandal,
Crowe Bar: Professor Tasman Crowe and Marine Protected Areas
On the night of the “Love Your Coast” Photography Awards, Minister Eoghan Murphy announced Professor Tasman Crowe, Director of the
Big Brain Power: Mastermind by Revive Active
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Hidden Waste: Microplastics in Unexpected Places
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It has been nearly 30 years since the gene-editing tool, CRISPR/Cas9 was discovered, and only six since it was used
Brazilian Butterflies: Chaos Theory and the Weather Forecast
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Nobel Prize in Physics: The First Exoplanet and a Pioneer of Theoretical Cosmology
On October 8, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to James Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz
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