Could robots be psychology’s new lab rats?
Science speaks with researchers putting artificial intelligence brains into robot bodies".
Metallurgy, Chemicals
An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds
On this week’s show: Detecting childhood eye disease in old photos, and inserting memories into zebra finches".
One billion people, many in poor countries, have major vision problems that could be fixed
Better health coverage and primary care could help, the World Health Organization says".
A fridge made from a rubber band? Twisted elastic fibers could cool your food
“Twistocaloric” effect could usher in new wave of cooling technology free of greenhouse gases".
Dismissed EPA science advisers gather in ‘unprecedented’ challenge to Trump administration
Ousted air quality experts stage their own review of agency’s particulate science".
Fossilized dinosaur proteins, and making a fridge from rubber bands
On this week’s show: New insights into dinosaurs from 300-million-year-old molecules, and stretching rubber bands and twisting memory metals to cool things down".
In bid to boost transparency, bioRxiv begins posting peer reviews next to preprints
A related experiment will provide new test of “portable” peer reviews".
‘Bingo!’ In a remarkable first, humpback whales spotted using their fins to scoop up fish
Drone footage captures the practice in action".
New wrinkle on origami turns designing folding structures into child’s play
Puzzle approach provides new way of designing folding robots and other devices".
Watch the world’s loudest bird scream for a mate
White bellbirds shatter the record for noisiest call—and maybe their mates’ eardrums".
