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This robot can respond to verbal commands and corrections on the fly.

Technology

‘Yell at your robot’ technique teaches robots household chores

AI allows robots to listen to verbal instructions while learning to correctly perform household tasks. That could enable more natural interactions between humans and robots

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solar eclipse

Space

How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secrets for centuries

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Health

Why vigorous exercise could inadvertently lead to weight gain

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Technology

AI chatbots beat humans at persuading their opponents in debates

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melting cubes of ice

Physics

Physicists have worked out how to melt any material

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Environment

Heatwaves now last much longer than they did in the 1980s

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An Airbus A350

Technology

Unprecedented GPS jamming attack affects 1600 aircraft over Europe

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Brain parahippocampal gyrus

Health

Tooth loss linked to early signs of Alzheimer’s disease

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Health

DNA sequencing may give hope to critically ill adults in hospital

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One of NASA’s WB-57F research jets

Space

The ambitious plans to study the sun during April’s solar eclipse

Solar scientists have been preparing for years for a 4-minute window, during the total solar eclipse on 8 April, in which they will study the sun's corona

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Physics

Hyperelastic gel is one of the stretchiest materials known to science

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Space

Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a second lunar night

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Health

Could bone marrow transplants transmit Alzheimer’s disease?

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Mathematics

Mathematicians are bitterly divided over a controversial proof

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