Enchanting pictures of beautiful libraries around the world

From monasteries to royal reading rooms, get lost within these majestic libraries.

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Worm-like robot shifts water inside its body to cross land and sea

NYU researchers built WorMa, a worm-like robot that shifts its weight to navigate rugged terrain, slopes, steps, and water.

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A Surprising Brain Signal Could Explain Why Eating Less Protein Extends Lifespan

A new paper suggests that limiting protein intake triggers a coordinated response throughout the body that may help explain how protein restriction affects healthy aging. Animals respond to protein r...

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Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless

Millions of operations should be scrapped SIX IN TEN Britons have surgery at some point. So do lots of Americans, at a cost of perhaps $500bn a year, a third of all spending on adults in the world’s b...

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Cocaine plays with mind, hijacks brain circuit, drives increasingly rigid and repetitive behavior

Researchers have found that cocaine hijacks brain circuit, which to drive increasingly rigid and repetitive behavior. The brain circuit that normally participates in selecting natural mouth and face m...

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Boston Dynamics unveils 13-DOF robotic hand for its Atlas humanoid

Boston Dynamics has developed a four-finger, 13-DOF hand for Atlas, designed for dexterous manipulation, tool use and AI training.

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NASA prepares humanoid robots to handle dangerous jobs on moon, Mars

NASA's 16-member robotics team is preparing advanced robots to work alongside humans during future deep-space missions.

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Airborne robot makes soft water landing, converts to autonomous sailboat

ALBATROSS is a bio-inspired, hybrid aerial-marine robot designed for rapid environmental monitoring and disaster response.

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USAF gets first 'robot wingmen' to begin autonomous warfare trials

The US Air Force has received its first two CCAs for testing alongside crewed fighters at its Creech base in Nevada.

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Palm-sized robot makes controlled jumps using a tiny electric motor

Engineers developed DirectHop, a springless robot that makes controlled jumps, clears a stair step and can right itself after landing.

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OpenAI agents hit UN website more than 16,000 times, bypassed a filter

The agents were searching for publicly available information but became increasingly aggressive when they encountered restrictions.

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New Treatment Cuts “Bad” Cholesterol in Half for a Full Year

A single infusion of an experimental CRISPR-Cas9 therapy was reported to safely lower LDL cholesterol by 52.5% and triglycerides by 47.8%, as measured 12 months after treatment. What if one infusion ...

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Too Much RNA Can Drain a Cell’s Energy, Scientists Discover

A virus may cripple a cell’s power supply simply by producing too much of a molecule the cell needs to survive. New research from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (...

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West African scientists warn of weakening health systems and urge stronger outbreak detection

LOME, Togo (AP) — West African laboratory scientists called on governments Friday to strengthen capacity to detect disease outbreaks to avoid another major outbreak, saying health systems across the r...

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A Little-Known Protein Could Point to a New Way To Treat Alzheimer’s

A study suggests that increasing SORLA protein levels could help treat Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders involving tau protein. Increasing SORLA, a protein with a protective role in the brain, ...

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Cancer’s Hidden Antioxidant Shield Helps It Escape the Immune System

Blocking an antioxidant protein that tumors use to suppress immune attacks improved cancer immunotherapy responses in mice. Cancer cells can release antioxidants that interfere with the immune cells ...

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Researchers Uncover a Hidden Trigger Behind Chronic Inflammation

The findings offer new insights that could help guide the development of future therapies. A protein called human resistin may help flip on one of the immune system’s most powerful inflammatory switch...

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Scientists Find a Berry Compound That Helps Muscle Cells Burn Fat

Pterostilbene, a compound found naturally in some foods, affects how skeletal muscles process fats by stabilizing a protein called PPARδ and increasing its signaling activity. Pterostilbene, a natura...

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Novartis, Ionis drug failure spurs questions

Pelacarsen didn’t protect heart health despite lowering levels of a protein particle, “Lp(a),” in a large clinical trial — a result with important implications for cardiovascular drug research. Dive B...

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New injectable treatment helps the brain rebuild after stroke

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created an injectable biomaterial that may help the brain recover from damage left behind by an ischemic stroke. In experiments with mice, the material tra...

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New pancreatic cancer drug carries a $39,800 monthly list price

A groundbreaking treatment for one of the most common forms of pancreatic cancer has been approved in pill form by the FDA. Revolution Medicines’ oral tablet daraxonrasib, branded as Rasonque, reduced...

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Researchers Have Discovered a New Way To Reduce Chronic Nerve Pain

A cancer-linked protein called BRAF may help drive chronic nerve pain, and existing cancer drugs targeting it reduced pain sensitivity in preclinical models. Chronic nerve pain can persist long after ...

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FDA Clears First-of-Its-Kind Nonmedication Treatment for PTSD

The FDA has cleared a system that uses brain activity data to personalize magnetic stimulation for PTSD, adding a new nonmedication treatment option. Every day in the United States, approximately 17.5...

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Is there a summer COVID-19 surge this year? Yep, it’s ramping up again

Hantavirus. Ebola. West Nile. Measles. And, of course, cyclospora — that stomach parasite making people miserable across the country. Americans have plenty to worry about this summer. But remember CO...

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Beyond an Agency: How AI, Creativity and Commercialization Are Converging Into a New Growth Model

At a moment when AI is forcing a fundamental rethink of how work gets done, the life sciences industry is grappling with a deeper question: what role should human creativity play in an increasingly au...

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New $60 Blood Test Detects Lung Cancer Without Costly DNA Sequencing

A simple blood test that detects chemical changes in DNA identified more than 90% of stage 2-4 lung cancers in an early study, without relying on costly DNA sequencing. Researchers at Tel Aviv Univer...

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Scientists Discover a Hidden Cell Signal That May Explain Congenital Heart Defects

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen found that a signaling mechanism in the cells’ ‘antennae’ may help explain why some fetuses develop disease in both the heart and other organs.

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Mushroom Mystery: The Fungus That Makes People See Tiny Humans

A mushroom sold in markets and served in restaurants in Southwest China has an unusual warning attached to it: cook it thoroughly, or you may start seeing tiny people. For decades, people have report...

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Artificial intelligence used to design brand new viruses

Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory, say US researchers. It is the first time whole genomes have been succes...

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