To clean your watermelon, rinse it under cool water in the sink, then scrub it all over with a clean brush. Skip soap or ...

The murder trial of a Pueblo man who had a severed human hand in his pocket at the time of his January 2024 arrest is officially underway. In opening statements Thursday afternoon, ...

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They fly like no other creature on Earth, survive for decades, and rarely get cancers. Learning their secrets could lead to new advances for human use. How do bats fly? Scientists at Brown ...

For 26 weeks, half of the group ate one large Hass avocado per day while the other half continued their usual diet, which typically involved consuming less than two avocados per month.

To teach the robotic hand what each type of touch meant, the team tested the skin in a wide range of scenarios. They blasted it with a heat gun, gently tapped it, pressed it with a robotic arm ...

We decided to keep the process exactly like how a human would cook. The goal was that people should not be able to tell if the food was made by a machine or by hand. We were so serious about this that ...

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A new synthetic "skin" gives robots the human touch. The low-cost, durable and highly-sensitive material can be added to robotic hands just like a glove, say scientists. It enables automatons to ...

Although the new robotic skin is not as sensitive as human skin, the researchers say it can detect signals from more than 860,000 tiny pathways in the material. That enables it to recognise different ...

A new synthetic "skin" gives robots the human touch. The low-cost, durable and highly-sensitive material can be added to robotic hands just like a glove, say scientists. It enables automatons to ...