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Alfa-X — a Japanese Bullet Train

Alfa-X — a Japanese Bullet Train

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Alfa-X is a high-speed train presented by JR East this week. The maximum speed the train can travel with is 400 kilometers per hour, which makes it the world’s fastest commercial passenger train.
Luna-29 mission may be led by robot

Luna-29 mission may be led by robot

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According to recently leaked information, the moon rover for the Luna-29 mission might be piloted by an anthropomorphic robot - presumably, FEDOR - currently being developed by NPO ‘Androidnaya Technika’ and the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects.
Starliner successfully tests parachutes

Starliner successfully tests parachutes

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According to official sources, the unmanned test flight of the Starliner spacecraft will take place in August at the earliest, with the manned launch set for the end of the year. Boeing is currently actively testing the spacecraft. Its parachutes, intended for the crew’s safe landing on Earth inside a capsule, were recently tested in terms of functionality.
Can your shower hose climb walls?

Can your shower hose climb walls?

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Robotics is an area that is changing right before our eyes, with standard anthropomorphic robots being replaced by flexible devices that are much more manoeuvrable than their unwieldy counterparts.
Buchla Thunder: the new best friend of gamers and musicians

Buchla Thunder: the new best friend of gamers and musicians

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Sensel announced plans to build the multifunctional Morph interface back in 2015. Funding for the project was collected two years later, and the company has just released the Buchla Thunder controller, which was created as an overlay for Morph.
Nua Electrica – a self-charging electric bike

Nua Electrica – a self-charging electric bike

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Nua Bikes is a Spanish company that has recently presented an electric bike that is completely different from its analogue counterparts. Lightweight and compact, it doesn't need to be charged at all - it does everything on its own.
Scientists Find a New Species of Millipede

Scientists Find a New Species of Millipede

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Amber is a unique material where a lot of interesting things can be found. Scientist of the Bulgarian National Museum of Natural History discovered in a piece of amber a millipede that lived on our planet about 99 million years ago.
Dinosaur Robot Demonstrates How Birds Learned to Fly

Dinosaur Robot Demonstrates How Birds Learned to Fly

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Scientists have long argued that birds are distant descendants of dinosaurs. However, there seems to have been a transitional species between them, which is called Archeopteryx by the scientific community. Archeopteryxes could not fly, but they made their first attempts to do so.
Protein molecules help to store a Japanese artist’s engraving

Protein molecules help to store a Japanese artist’s engraving

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Researchers from Harvard and Northwestern University of Chicago have come up with a new way to store information which involves depositing data in protein molecules.
Scientists Create a Sensor Turning Blood Tests into a Thing of the Past

Scientists Create a Sensor Turning Blood Tests into a Thing of the Past

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Scientists at Fluid Interfaces Group organization have created a sensor that collects data on biological composition of saliva. The device that is fixed to a patient’s cheek can completely replace blood tests.
Scientists create amazing laser capable of evaporating matter

Scientists create amazing laser capable of evaporating matter

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In 2014, when a 1-petawatt laser was created, media compared it to the Death Star from Star Wars. A more recent development made in Europe has yielded a laser that is 10 times as powerful as the previous one.
DroneBullet: the drone that kills other drones

DroneBullet: the drone that kills other drones

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Military budgets of most leading countries already include expenses on building drone fighting machines. There are many ways to disarm them. But what better way to fight a drone than with another drone?
Arsenic breathing microbe discovered in the Pacific Ocean

Arsenic breathing microbe discovered in the Pacific Ocean

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Arsenic is a toxic and carcinogenic chemical, but the Earth is home to a diverse number of species which includes organisms that not only remain unharmed by it, but need it for survival.
ISS Specialists Find a Way to Maintain Astronauts’ Health

ISS Specialists Find a Way to Maintain Astronauts’ Health

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Space flights adversely affect astronauts’ health. Particularly affected are their muscles and bones, therefore astronauts have to undergo long courses of rehabilitation after space expeditions. However, ISS specialists have developed a method to make them considerably shorter.
How to install Wi-Fi in a natural disaster zone

How to install Wi-Fi in a natural disaster zone

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Insufficiently rapid reactions to natural disasters often lead to many deaths which could be reduced by setting up better connection within the area. Weather, a subsidiary of IBM, predicts that up to seven hurricanes will hit the United States in 2019. There are currently plans to develop quick Internet installation technology to deal with these disasters.
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