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Moravec‘s Paradox

Researchers develop motor-free soft-rigid hybrid robots

Origami gives engineers a toolkit of foldable 3D shapes that can change form and function. These structures can shift between folded states and adjust their strength and behavior; this is useful for compact, flexible machines like soft robots. Soft robots aim to move and change shape smoothly, but they often…

bubmagApril 9, 2026

Impeachment

We Have 2 Weeks to Stop Trump From Committing New Atrocities

It is up to the American people, and our elected representatives, to use every legal means available—from impeachment to protest. Five years after the January 6, 2021, violent insurrection in Washington, DC, seeking to overthrow the election results, members of the activist group Rise and Resist gathered at the steps…

bubmagApril 9, 2026

NSA

Public Health Needs to Get Off the Laptop and Into the Streets

Too often, we reduce our outreach to distant communication. We have to embed ourselves in communities to make a real difference. HIV educators in South Africa in 2002. (Markus Matzel / Ullstein Bild via Getty Images) In the early 2000s, I spent time in South Africa with the Treatment Action…

bubmagApril 9, 2026

NASDAQ

US Stock Market Live Updates | Dow, Nasdaq futures fall on US-Iran ceasefire uncertainty; inflation in focus

Home Market News US Stock Market Highlights | Wall Street rises for second day as Dow turns positive for 2026 US Stock Market Highlights: US stocks advanced for a second consecutive session on Thursday (April 9) as investor optimism over the fragile two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran persisted,…

bubmagApril 9, 2026

Air Pollution

Unpacking Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Prop Up Coal

At one time, the U.S. electricity grid ran mostly on coal. But coal-fired power plants have steadily been decommissioned. Power producers found the plants were too expensive to operate and carried risks tied to toxic air pollution, waste and climate-warming emissions. Then President Donald Trump returned to the White House…

bubmagApril 9, 2026

Recycling

How to delaminate end-of-life solar modules with ultrasonic cavitation

A German-Turkish research team has developed a solvent-free method using ultrasonic cavitation to delaminate end-of-life crystalline-silicon PV modules, fully separating the glass and front EVA layer while partially releasing c-Si fragments. The proposed approach achieved an 82.2% mass-based delamination efficiency, highlighting ultrasonic cavitation as a sustainable alternative for PV module…

bubmagApril 9, 2026

Singapore

URA Launches Tenders for Pair of Central Singapore Sites Yielding 785 Homes

River Valley Green Parcel C is the final site available in the River Valley precinct (Image: Google) The Urban Redevelopment Authority on Thursday released two central Singapore residential sites for tender under the Government Land Sales programme with capacity to provide a total of 785 private homes. The sites, River…

bubmagApril 9, 2026

Chernobyl

Could revisiting Asimov’s laws help us avoid AI’s ‘Chernobyl moment’?

The conflict in Iran – but also the war in Ukraine – show not only that AI is radically changing the economics of war (which may be good news), but also that we may be heading towards some kind of “Chernobyl moment”. We may soon experience a disaster that will…

bubmagApril 9, 2026

Moon Mission

Artemis II moon mission unifies politically divided Americans in wonder

April 9 - NASA's Artemis II mission, the world's first astronaut voyage to the moon in over half a century, has captivated Americans young and old across political divides, bringing unity of wonder, hope and pride to a nation torn by partisan rancor and war. From a profusion of rocket-launch…

bubmagApril 9, 2026

Antarctica

Emperor penguins added to endangered list after rapid decline

Emperor penguins could go extinct by 2100 Stefan Christmann/naturepl.com Two of Antarctica’s most iconic species, the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) and the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella), have declined so dramatically and rapidly that they have been classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List. A third Antarctic species, the…

bubmagApril 9, 2026

Researchers develop motor-free soft-rigid hybrid robots

We Have 2 Weeks to Stop Trump From Committing New Atrocities

Public Health Needs to Get Off the Laptop and Into the Streets

US Stock Market Live Updates | Dow, Nasdaq futures fall on US-Iran ceasefire uncertainty; inflation in focus

Unpacking Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Prop Up Coal

How to delaminate end-of-life solar modules with ultrasonic cavitation

URA Launches Tenders for Pair of Central Singapore Sites Yielding 785 Homes

Could revisiting Asimov’s laws help us avoid AI’s ‘Chernobyl moment’?

Artemis II moon mission unifies politically divided Americans in wonder

Emperor penguins added to endangered list after rapid decline

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