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AnimalsWinged robots may shed light on fly aerobatics
After years of trying, researchers create flapping machines that can hover and perform rudimentary flight maneuvers.
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Health & MedicineAllergy, asthma less frequent in foreign-born kids in U.S.
But protection from some immune conditions fades after a decade, a study finds.
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HumansCannibalism in Colonial America comes to life
Researchers have found the first skeletal evidence that starving colonists ate their own.
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PhysicsCounting cracks in glass gives speed of projectile
There is a simple relationship between an object's velocity and the number of spokes it leaves in a dinged windshield or fractured windowpane.