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Battery life wouldn’t be an issue for drones if they could just recharge on power lines as needed. That’s exactly what an experimental new quadcopter can now do, allowing it to stay aloft pretty much indefinitely.Continue ReadingCategory: Drones, Techn… Continue reading Video: Crafty quadcopter sits on power lines to recharge
Danish scientists have developed an origami snake robot that could one day search for survivors at disaster sites, or even explore other planets. The device moves via rectilinear locomotion, just like real snakes often do.Continue ReadingCategory: Robo… Continue reading Origami robo-snake slithers toward the future of search and rescue ops
If you’ve ever listened to death metal rock or Mongolian throat singing, you’ll be familiar with the growling vocals that are part of both. Well, bats make similar sounds, and it turns out that they do so in the same manner as human singers.Continue Re… Continue reading Study shows that bats growl by channeling their inner death metal singer
It’s already a well-known fact that on average, women live longer than men. A European study, however, now indicates that the difference between male and female lifespans is even more pronounced in other types of mammals.Continue ReadingCategory: Biolo… Continue reading It’s not just humans – female wild mammals live longer than males