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A technique for more effective multipurpose robots

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MIT researchers developed a technique to combine robotics training data across domains, modalities, and tasks using generative AI models. They create a combined strategy from several different datasets that enables a robot to learn to perform new tasks in unseen environments.

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Simone Biles Makes History With Her 9th Win of the US Gymnastics Championships

Black Health Matters

If you give Simone Biles a record, she will break it. Forget the third time the charm; Biles has won a record ninth all-around US National Gymnastics title in Forth-Worth Texas after scoring gold in all four events. According to Yahoo Sports , Biles is the first male or female gymnast to have nine wins. She held the record when she beat out Alfred Jochim last year, and she is also the oldest athlete to do so.

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The embryo assembles itself

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Biological processes depend on puzzle pieces coming together and interacting. Under specific conditions, these interactions can create something new without external input. This is called self-organization, as seen in a school of fish or a flock of birds. Interestingly, the mammalian embryo develops similarly. Scientists now introduce a mathematical framework that analyzes self-organization from a single cell to a multicellular organism.

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Representative Sheila Jackson Lee Announces She Has Pancreatic Cancer

Black Health Matters

Before Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, 74, disclosed her health diagnosis, she first affirmed her faith and commitment to the fight for justice and equality, which she will bring to the personal battle ahead. Jackson Lee, who serves Texas’ 18th Congressional District, revealed that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “I am confident that my doctors have developed the best possible plan to target my specific disease.

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Fungus breaks down ocean plastic

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A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers expect that many more plastic degrading fungi are living in deeper parts of the ocean.

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Maternal and Child Health: Empowering Families Through the MCH Handbook.

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World Health Day 2024: My Health, My Right World Health Day 2024 is here, and the theme “My Health, My Right” is all about reminding us that everyone deserves good health, no matter who they are. This theme tells us that everyone has the right to get good healthcare, learn about staying healthy, and access information about health.

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Altered carbon points toward sustainable manufacturing

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Researchers develop a vastly more productive way to convert carbon dioxide into useful materials and compounds.

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Thawing permafrost: Not a climate tipping element, but nevertheless far-reaching impacts

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Permafrost soils store large quantities of organic carbon and are often portrayed as a critical tipping element in the Earth system, which, once global warming has reached a certain level, suddenly and globally collapses. Yet this image of a ticking timebomb, one that remains relatively quiet until, at a certain level of warming, it goes off, is a controversial one among the research community.

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How sharks survived a major spike in Earth's temperature

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The sharks we know today as the open ocean's top predators evolved from stubby bottom dwellers during a dramatic episode of global warming millions of years ago.

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Food drove the evolution of giraffes' long neck

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A study explores body proportions of Masai giraffes, lending insight into why giraffes have such long necks and how this trait might have evolved.

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Kinship and ancestry of the Celts in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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The Celtic culture of the pre-Roman Iron Age in Western and Central Europe has left numerous traces to this day, not least in the form of enormous burial mounds and spectacular archaeological artifacts. Despite this rich legacy, much about this civilization remains hidden from us.

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Crucial shift in River Nile's evolution during ancient Egypt discovered

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Researchers have explored how the River Nile evolved over the past 11,500 years and how changes in its geography could have helped shape the fortunes of ancient Egyptian civilization. Research reveals a major shift in the Nile around four thousand years ago, after which the floodplain in the Nile Valley around Luxor greatly expanded.

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Fresh findings: Earliest evidence of life-bringing freshwater on Earth

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New research has found evidence that fresh water on Earth, which is essential for life, appeared about four billion years ago -- five hundred million years earlier than previously thought.

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