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The Astonishing Origin of Garnets in Rhyolite
Garnet is the January birthstone. It doesn't always form how you might expect...
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The Fairy-Tale Asteroid
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How Machine Learning Could Keep Dangerous DNA Out of Terrorists' Hands
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The Deep Roots of Fake News
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Even Kids Can Understand That Algorithms Can Be Biased
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Fossil Bird Soared above Utah's Dinosaurs
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The 'Oumuamua Legacy
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Forget Everything You Know About 3D Printing--the "Replicator" Is Here
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What Birds Can Teach Us about Flying Robots
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Bringing a Fossil to Life: Reverse Engineering Locomotion
How an animal moves can tell scientists a lot about how it lives. That is how researchers hope to learn more about an ancient crocodilelike creature called Orobates pabsti. Using scans of an Orobates fossil, fossilized footprints, and data from lizards and salamanders, researchers created a dynamic simulation of how Orobates moved, which they brought to life using a robot. To start your own investigation into Orobates’s movement, explore the free online tool here. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on January 16, 2019. It is a Nature Video production.
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