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Soft Robot With Inflatable Actuators And Kirigami Skin Debuts
You probably think it looks like a worm and it can certainly go places only small things could go.
It's not very fast, only 11 millimeters per second, but it can twist, turn, and navigate through tight spots thanks to its anisotropic anchoring and flexible skin.
Credit: SDU Soft Robotics
Decline In Male Fertility Linked To Male Paternity Leave
This is in contrast to some claims that maternity leave can boost fertility.
Uptake of the new paternity leave was very high among new dads. Then something strange happened.
Hurricanes: Water, Not Wind, Is Deadliest
Floods, rip currents, and storm surges are the big risk, with freshwater flooding inland accounting for over half of drownings. To help with real-time, the Southeast Atlantic (SEA) Econet network of atmospheric and hydrological monitoring stations provide the real-time data used by the National Weather Service.
Taurine’s Anti-Aging Hype Takes A Hit In Rigorous New Study
Lemons To Lemonade Is Like Soda Cans To Hydrogen
Pollution is bad but a new study shows that it may some day be a net win for energy.
While Western Progressives Block Nuclear, China Builds 2 Coal Plants Per Week
That is why China exempts itself from all climate treaties, claiming developing nation status, and western countries, and certainly the so-called United Nations, refuse to criticize them.
WISEcode: Psychologist Proposes A New Way To Exempt Processed Foods From Harm Claims
Now, epidemiology has become a Supreme Court over science and instead of evidence-based decision-making, the default has become that if a harm or benefit can be suggested using food or chemical surveys, government will ban it and then tell scientists to figure out why.
Phytosterols In Vegetarian Diets Linked To Lower Risk Of Diabetes
The Way To Finally Make Organic Farming Sustainable Is To Allow Modern Gene Editing
When the organic process was the only thing available, the food-rich were rich and the poor were poor and the only difference was being born into a natural breadbasket. Cycles of famine were common.
NEW: Infuzide Shows Promise Against Multidrug Resistant Pathogens
A Decline In Financial Skills May Be A Harbinger Of Alzheimer’s
Egyptian Blue, The World's Oldest Synthetic Pigment, Gets Recreated
The Anomaly That Wasn't: An Example Of Shifting Consensus In Science
Cancer Is Killing Fewer Americans Than Ever
They were there because those don't cause cancer, any more than manufacturing a PM2.5 air quality standard 30 years ago saves any lives, because they were never causing deaths.
Remote Health Care Messaging Is Increasing Physician Burnout
It may also be causing greater rates of physician burnout, according to a recent paper.
Female physicians seem to be impacted most, according to the survey results. They spend more time on them, but get more messages they feel are negative or demeaning , and more frequently list messages as a source of burnout.
Greta Branford, M.D., and colleagues looked at data from a year’s worth of patient portal messages handled by University of Michigan primary care physicians, and survey results.
Climate Change Implicated In Teen Pregnancy
Protein Is Key To Helping Older People Prevent Muscle Injuries
More and more people over the age of 50 are taking up physical exercise. Medical associations resoundingly agree that this is a good thing. Physical exercise is not only key to disease prevention, it is also a recommended part of treatment for many illnesses.
However, starting to move at this stage of life requires some care. This is especially true for those who have not previously been physically active, or for people who are overweight or obese.
For World No Tobacco Day, NFL Biosciences Wants You To Buy Their Tobacco Product
And it works better than placebo, just like vaping, but lots of people have quit using hypnosis and we know that isn't science. This helps due to off-target effects from its original purpose, preventing allergic reactions in workers who used tobacco plants, thanks to how it modifies glucose metabolism.
The 'Still Explosions' Of Lichens On Stone
Lichens on stone, those “still explosions” as the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop named them, remain unseen to most, which is remarkable when you consider how commonplace they are. It seems these ecologically and culturally significant whatever-they-ares unfairly fall victim to something akin to plant blindness, a known phenomenon and tendency of people to overlook plants, which many of us – when we first encounter lichens – identify them as, even though that’s not what they are at all.