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  1. We, robot: What real-life machines can and can’t do

    As director of the Maryland Robotics Center, Satyandra Gupta oversees 25 faculty members working on all things robotic: snake-inspired robots, robotic swarms, minirobots for medicine and robots for exploring extreme environments on land, under the sea and in outer space. In September the Center hosted its first Robotics Day; afterward, Gupta talked robots with Science […]

    By Satyandra Gupta

  2. Biomedical research needs more consistent funding

    This summer William Talman became president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, an organization that advocates the advancement of biological and biomedical research. He is a professor of neurology and neuroscience at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and a practicing physician at the university’s hospital and at the Iowa City […]

    By William Talman
  3. Math

    Crowdsourcing peer review

    MATH TREK: A claimed proof that P≠NP spurs a massive collaborative research effort.