First locally transmitted Zika case confirmed in continental US

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Four people have been infected with the virus from mosquitoes in Florida, near Miami. It's the first time that Zika has been spread in t...

Video Friday: Artificial Evolution, Legged Machines, and Delivery Robots in Silicon Valley

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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos via Video Friday: Artificial Evolution, Legged Machines, and Delivery Robots in Silicon Val...

Ocean-cleaning sea bins will gobble up plastic waste to recycle

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Bins designed to suck up debris floating on the sea are in the final stages of testing, shame they won’t make it to Rio in time to clean up ...

Now you see me: true invisibility cloak impossible to build

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New calculations say an invisibility cloak would only work for a tiny sliver of light, and would make all other wavelengths grow brighter v...

Why Hinkley Point is a nuclear folly of Titanic proportions

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The French firm EDF has approved plans for a massive nuclear reactor in the UK, but the UK government is hesitating. Let’s hope it scuppers ...

How robot swarms are learning to find what we lose at sea

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As we perfect wireless underwater communication, robots will criss-cross the abyss finding everything from lost planes to chemical leaks vi...

Autoimmune diseases may be side effect of a strong immune system

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We finally have evidence from human studies that disorders like lupus could be a by-product of being well protected against other diseases ...