Episode #1072
News Items
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Engineers have developed a robotic which is more dexterous than a human hand, and can even detach, crawl across the floor, and retrieve objects. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67675-8
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Item #2
Fiction
A new study finds that disconnecting from media is associated with significant and long lasting reductions in reported stress levels. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00936502251387830
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Item #3
Science
A new analysis finds that ice-age kangaroos, which were more than twice as heavy as the largest extant kangaroos, could still use hopping for locomotion. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-29939-7
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘Success in creating effective AI, could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or the worst. We just don’t know. So, we cannot know if we will be infinitely helped by AI, or ignored by it and side-lined, or conceivably destroyed by it.” Stephen Hawking