How evolution could bring back the sabercat
Saber fanged cats ruled the Pleistocene and survived the last Ice Age, but went extinct at roughly the same time that humans were discovering agriculture. This is the first time in millions of years that sabercats haven’t roamed the planet. But we might just survive long enough to see them return. Evolution does not precisely…
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Brian Switek
Self-assembling swarmbots are amazing, and look creepily alive
Researchers at MIT have created cube-shaped modular robots that can flip, jump, and assemble themselves into any number of configurations. And remarkably, they have no external parts. They’re called M-Blocks, and they’re able to move by virtue of an internal flywheel mechanism that can reach speeds of 20,000 revolutions per minute. And when the flywheel…
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George Dvorsky and Robert Gonzalez
