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Forget robotaxis, this is for precision and repeatability.
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NHTSA wants Tesla to provide info on software and hardware for all US-made cars.
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A new book tracks the human fascination with octopuses across centuries.
Even if one robot fails, the rest of the team can offset its loss.
A new tunicate fossil, a close relative of vertebrates, is half a billion years old.
An atmospheric effect got various tidal forces to cancel out.
There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.
What if we dropped interstellar ambitions and focused on understanding our home system?
The cephalopods experience an apparent sleep state with REM-like activity.
The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.
Brain activity differs among people who feel out of touch with their peers.
Wobbles in its rotation are difficult to explain without a liquid core.
The flight from Musk's Twitter to the "free" fediverse never really took off.
Lightning seen "at heights and rates not previously observed."
A probe sent toward the Sun ran into the debris of an asteroid breakup.
This futuristic new liquid-metal coating can make ordinary objects extraordinary.
Tens of thousands of Kias and Hyundais have been stolen for social media cred.
They can monitor the Antarctic year round and sail straight into hurricanes.
A quasar ejected the remains of stars, but another galaxy sucked them back in.
This discovery is literally the hottest thing in a while.
Birch bark was heated in underground chambers to create a tougher adhesive.
Clever use of physics uses pressure on the skin and optics to track blood flow.
Are you afraid of the dark?
Enceladus' rapid orbit and large geysers spread water widely near Saturn.
Humans breathe out a lot of microbes that can make homes on surfaces inside the ISS.
Internal (and edible) crosslinks keep the polymers of a gummy from hardening.
The start of organ development can help us understand human developmental problems.
A biased "assistant" was able to influence the arguments made in essays.
Nanoparticles manipulate light at specific wavelengths to create colors.
High-energy particles efficiently convert atmospheric chemicals to amino acids.
Getting it to work required integrating multiple types of machine learning.
AI's ability to handle math depends on what exactly you ask it to do.
Within the last million years or so, melted snow might have dampened Mars' sands.
Small muscle twitches could be the key to communicating during someone's REM sleep.