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  • Flexible electronic skin aids human-machine interactions

    Human skin contains sensitive nerve cells that detect pressure, temperature and other sensations that allow tactile interactions with the environment. To help robots and prosthetic devices attain these abilities, scientists are trying to develop electronic skins. Now researchers report a new method in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that creates an ultrathin, stretchable electronic skin, which could be used for a variety of human-machine interactions.

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  • ‘Air battle between two UFOs was extra-terrestrial’, claims Australian Courier reader who witnessed incident

    Phil Tindale got in touch to explain how as 10-year-olds in the South Australian town of Aldgate just over 40 years ago, he and his twin brother Rob witnessed a “hostile chase between two highly advanced craft resulting in one of those craft crashing into a tree”.

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  • Google Earth user claims he found the entrance to Area 51

    Satellite images supposedly showing the entrance to the secret base of ‘Area 51’ have caused quite a buzz on social media. Are we on to something?

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  • Millions of High-Speed Black Holes Could Be Zooming Around The Milky Way

    How are black holes born? Astrophysicists have theories, but we don’t actually know for certain. It could be massive stars quietly imploding with a floompf, or perhaps black holes are born in the explosions of colossal supernovas. New observations now indicate it might indeed be the latter.

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