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  • The ISS Is Getting a New Pair of Creepy Robot Arms

    The ISS Is Getting a New Pair of Creepy Robot Arms

    Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) are about to make a new cyborg friend in the form of two short mechanical arms that will do their bidding in the cold, dark vacuum of low Earth orbit. California-based startup GITAI is launching its 4.9-foot-long (1.5-metres) autonomous dual robotic arm system, called S2, to the…


  • World’s Largest Iceberg Has Officially Gone Rogue

    World’s Largest Iceberg Has Officially Gone Rogue

    What’s white, weighs roughly one trillion metric tons, and is now heading away from the Antarctic Peninsula? If you guessed iceberg A23a, you’re absolutely right, as this colossal chunk of snow and ice is finally leaving the cradle. Iceberg A23a managed to dislodge itself from the ocean floor in November 2023, but its story actually…


  • Ghostly White Roly Poly Bug Discovered in the Deep Sea

    Ghostly White Roly Poly Bug Discovered in the Deep Sea

    Meet the animal kingdom’s newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod—a member of the family Cirolanidae—and is only the second species of its genus described from the Western North Atlantic. Deep-sea isopods are cousins of terrestrial roly-polies, also known…