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By squirting chemicals onto a person’s tongue to taste, a new device aims to replicate food flavors for fuller virtual experiences.

Using fungi in biohybrid robots is still “pretty new,” Mishra says. His team now hopes to test how such tech responds to other cues, such as gases. One way their robots’ sen­sory superpowers might ...

Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

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Mars may once have held enough water to fill oceans and form coastlines. The planet’s red dust contains water and likely formed in cold conditions.

Some scholars argue that efforts to equalize the time men and women spend on housework has stalled. An analysis reveals slow progress.

Hundreds of surface swabs reveal the station lacks microbial diversity, an imbalance that has been linked to health issues in other settings.

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