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RIP BigDog, Darpa’s Robotic Pack Mule
The LS3 robot, more popularly known by its predecessor’s name, BigDog, is being retired. Despite hopes that it would one day work as a pack mule for US soldiers in the field, this dog had too much bark. Which is to say, it was simply too noisy.
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We’ve Never Heard Whales Make This Haunting Sound Before
Video: You’ve probably watched enough documentaries to know that humpback whales communicate using clicks and whistles. But put on a pair of headphones and listen to the video above. Beneath the shrill chatter we’ve all heard before, there’s a much lower-pitched tone, eerily reminiscent of a human heartbeat.
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Icelandic Volcano Earns Name A Year After It Finishes Erupting
The informally-named Holuhraun volcano in Iceland now formally bears the same name, making fans of naming it after dragons, witches, or internet service providers sob furiously.
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A New Way Of Thinking About Spacetime That Turns Everything Inside Out
One of the weirdest aspects of quantum mechanisms is entanglement, because two entangled particles affecting each other across vast distances seems to violate a fundamental principle of physics called locality: things that happen at a particular point in space can only influence the points closest to it. But what if locality — and space itself…