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MIT Releases Swimming Robotic Fish Made of Silicone Rubber

The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT unveiled a soft robotic fish, “SoFi”. The robot is intended to photograph rare marine organisms up close by fitting into the crowd of animals underwater, mimicking the motions of swimming fish. According to the report at MIT News, “The entire back half of the fish is made of silicone rubber and flexible plastic, and several

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Ice and Sediment Samples Show Glacial and Interglacial Temperature Variability

Feb. 5, 2018—On the basis of a unique global comparison of data from core samples extracted from the ocean floor and the polar ice sheets, researchers at the Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI) have demonstrated that, though climate changes have indeed decreased around the globe from glacial to interglacial periods, the difference is by no means as pronounced as previously assumed. Until

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