Scientists at Washington University have been trying to make muscle-like structures for soft robots with surfaces that resemble skin. After some frustrating experiments, they decided to use real muscles—or, more accurately, real muscle proteins. Harvesting muscle from mammals wouldn’t work, so the team decided to recruit microbes to make it. First, the researchers genetically engineered...
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HOW THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD
After decades of research and failed attempts, the tire industry has demonstrated something almost as good as a gas tank that’s always full—an airless tire. The challenge has been to design a tire that needs no air but is still squishy enough to maintain a solid grip on the road. Michelin calls its creation the...
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NO WORKERS? NO PROBLEM. WE GOT ‘BOTS.
The reluctance of workers to return to low-skill, low-wage jobs post-COVID is speeding the adoption of robots throughout the economy. One warehousing company reported hiring 26,000 people to finally staff 13,000 jobs; half the people quit or were fired after the first few days, the Financial Times reported. “In the 1980s, the main reason for...
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TOP U.S. GENERAL ADMITS U.S. LOST IN AFGHANISTAN
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, who appeared in front of Congress last week to discuss the Afghanistan withdrawal admitted to the House Armed Services Committee that the war had been a “strategic failure.” “It wasn’t lost in the last 20 days or even 20 months,” he said. “There’s...
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BRAVE NEW (CHINESE) WORLD?
The People’s Daily Online reported, on 29 September, that China now leads the world in applications for patents involving biological breeding, according to a report from the Development and Research Center of the China National Intellectual Property Administration. Such patent applications are on the rise worldwide, but the majority come from the U.S. and, now,...
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CHINA FLEXES MUSCLE ON TAIWAN. WHO WILL STOP THEM?
Beijing sent 77 military airplanes near Taiwan’s airspace within 48 hours last week, which was the highest number reported since Taipei has been counting. Chinese President Xi Jinping told its military to “heighten its readiness and prepare for warfighting,” Derek Grossman, a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation policy think tank, told CNN. Despite the...
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HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN TIGRAY DETERIORATES. ADDIS ABABA: “FU” UN
A United Nations committee released a damning report on Thursday that painted a dire picture of the conditions in Tigray that includes widespread malnutrition, blaming the Ethiopian government that launched the civil war in November 2020 for staging a blockade against essential aid. The report prompted Ethiopia officials to demand that the UN leave the...
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VACCINATED MORE LIKELY TO BECOME INFECTED WITH COVID VARIANTS, SAYS NEW STUDY
A study of more than 1,300 San Francisco area residents shows those who received COVID vaccinations were more likely to be infected with COVID variants than unvaccinated individuals. The study, while not yet peer reviewed, would provide more evidence that the vaccines are creating serious problems. The blog Conservative Treehouse picked up on the study,...
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THE TIES THAT BIND FAUCI TO BIG PHARMA
The relationships between big pharmaceuticals, government regulating bodies and health agencies, and politicians, are receiving new scrutiny this week. It follows a revelation that lobbyists paid by AstraZeneca and Pfizer have been directing Australian politicians to push their COVID vaccine. Emerald Robinson of One America News Now (OANN) has helped expose the problem. On 2...
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IN PORTUGAL, MILITARY APPROACH ACHIEVES VAX GOALS
As we had reported back in 2020, politicians and the media compared fighting the coronavirus to fighting a War. And just as the masses marched off to Mussolini, Heiled Hitler and saluted Stalin, when the COVID War was declared, they obediently followed their leaders. So, as The New York Times reported on 2 October, to...
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