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Technique may enable robotic animals that move with the strength and flexibility of their living counterparts.
Many robotic designs take nature as their muse: sticking to walls like geckos,...
Melbourne Researchers Rewrite Big Bang Theory sang a recent headline in the Sydney Morning Herald. It was one of many suggesting the Big Bang theory had been somehow overthrown.
As the principle...
Philosophers typically think of belief as one thing and desire as quite another. Beliefs, for example, represent the world as it is; desires picture the world as we want it to be. Desires are...
I have referred before to the WIN-Gallup survey of 57 countries that showed a decline in religion worldwide and a rise in disbelief. When you have a global phenomenon, the reasons for it are likely...
Memory is difficult to define without being circular. People often define memory as “something you can remember." But we cannot deny the existence of a memory when there is no recollection.
Sigmund...
I wrote earlier about the puzzling feature of some atheists going out of their way to praise religion, sometimes even denigrating science in the process in order to make their point. Reader Baga sent...
A coral species that is found in abundance from Indonesia eastward to Fiji, Samoa, and the Line Islands rarely crosses the Eastern Pacific Barrier toward the coast of the Americas, according to a...
Sometimes I feel that my local newspaper The Plain Dealer's motto must be “All Catholic News All the Time." It has devoted an endless number of news stories to the decision by the local bishop to...
New technology has led to the creation of virtual humans who can interact with therapists via a computer screen and realistically mimic the symptoms of a patient with clinical psychological disorders...
Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have found in the...
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