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The platypus has gotten a whole lot stranger. Not only does it look like a chimera of different animals, a mammal that lays eggs and has venom, it’s now found to have bioflourescent fur.

It glows green under UV light.

Scientists are seeing the Australian platypus in a whole new light. Under an ultraviolet lamp, this bizarre-looking creature appears even more peculiar than normal, glowing a soft, greenish-blue hue instead of the typical brown we’re used to seeing.

The recent discovery has not been found in any other monotreme species – a primitive type of mammal – and it has scientists wondering: Have we been overlooking an ancient world of fluorescent fur?

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Don’t you wish you had your own robotic exoskeleton?

This would really take away the strain in manual labor.

“In the past, the lifting workers could hardly stay after 2 years as the heavy work would burden them with injuries.”

This company in China is developing robotic exoskeletons to keep workers safe. More Bloomberg: https://trib.al/jllD1cT.

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With a variety of backgrounds and talents, these women have helped push the boundaries of spaceflight.

Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya.

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Svetlana Savitskaya was just the second woman to reach space. She was also a record-breaking jet pilot. Savitskaya was born in Moscow in 1948, and likewise started skydiving as a teenager. Her father, a high-ranking officer in the Soviet military, was allegedly unaware of her skydiving exploits. However, he soon supported her passion for flying jets, and Savitskaya quickly found herself competing in aerobatic competitions.

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A few days ago, SpaceX started to offer Starlink satellite broadband internet service in areas located in the northern United States and southern Canada. With approximately 888 internet-beaming satellites in orbit the Starlink network is capable of providing ‘moderate’ broadband coverage. Early Starlink customers have shared photographs via social media of the Starlink Kit that is utilized to receive internet connection from the satellites in space. The Starlink Kit includes: “Dishy McFlatface” which is a 19-inch dish phased-array antenna, a mounting tripod for the dish, and an oddly-shaped Wi-Fi router device, pictured below.

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IEEE RAS CUI Wah SB presents a webinar titled “Lower Earth Orbit High Throughput Satellites Mega-Constellations” and the speaker of this Webinar is “Engr. Muhammad Furqan” Researcher, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia, Former Satellite Communication Specialist, Ministry of Defense, Qatar and Former Senior Executive VSAT/DVB Wateen Telecom Pakistan.

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Quantum computers are now a reality, although they are still too rudimentary to factor numbers of more than two digits. But it is only a matter of time until quantum computers threaten Internet encryption.

Nature caught up with Shor to ask him about the impact of his work — and where Internet security is heading.

Nature talks to Peter Shor 25 years after he showed how to make quantum computations feasible — and how they could endanger our data.

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Li’l Kurt is a genetic marvel.

In an effort to increase genetic diversity among horses, scientists have gone sci-fi and used frozen 40-year-old cells to create Kurt, the very first clone of a Przewalski’s horse.

🐴 You love badass animals. So do we. Let’s nerd out over them together.

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