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In the 06/17/2015 edition: Share Tweet Forward Viva la Robolucion – Artist creates vintage robots from junk parts By Mihai Andrei on Jun 17, 2015 10:39 am Bruno Lefevre-Brauer, known as + Brauer, is a graphic designer living in Paris. Recently, he’s been working creating vintage, almost steampunk-ish robots from old pieces of scrap. More than their technological features, he tries to reveal the original, almost primitive, form of the robots he creates. +Brauer carefully chooses vintage objects that have an industrial past, that are marked by time Read article »   Pollinating Bees are Worth Billions, and We’re Still Not Protecting Them By Henry Conrad on Jun 17, 2015 10:37 am Wild bees provide environmental services worth $3,250 (€2,880) per hectare per year - accounting for billions, globally. Writing in Nature Communications, study authors quantify how much bees are doing for us, and stress that despite all their immense value, we still don't have a concrete plan to stop their numbers from dwindling. Read article »   Earth’s water basins disappearing at alarming rate, study finds By Mihai Andrei on Jun 17, 2015 09:53 am We tend to think of the Earth's water as an inexhaustible resource; after all, you learn the basic water cycle in first grade - water moves from the rivers to the oceans and then evaporates into the atmosphere and then it comes back as rain - so how could it be disappearing? Well, the reality is much more complex than that, and as two different studies showed, we may actually be heading towards a major water crisis. Read article »   Scientists create neural lace that fuses with your brain By Mihai Andrei on Jun 17, 2015 06:45 am In a world where in only a few decades we moved from clunky phones to wireless satellite-connected devices that allow you to be anywhere and do anything on the internet, it seems only normal that scientists will take it to the next level - to your brain. Already tested on mice, this fine mesh fits inside a syringe and unfurls on the brain to monitor its activity. Read article »   Octopus is so cute that ‘Adorable’ might become its name By Alexandra Gerea on Jun 17, 2015 05:43 am Among the best thing about being a biologist is you get to name things when you discover it. Now, a marine researcher in California will name one of the cutest invertebrates we've ever seen: so adorable, that it might actually be named 'adorabilis'. Read article »   This is what 200 calories look like in different foods By Mihai Andrei on Jun 16, 2015 04:13 pm Food calories come in different shapes and sizes – over 1 kilogram of vegetables can have the same number of calories as a chocolate bar, even though they have extremely different nutritional values. Here, we’ll look at how 200 calories look like with different foods, and also discuss the basics about calories. The results will surprise you. So, what is Read article »   Renewable energy might dominate the market by 2030 By Mihai Andrei on Jun 16, 2015 02:44 pm In only 15 years, renewable energy (wind, solar, hydro) could surpass fossil fuels as the main provider of energy. According to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report, renewables could provide more than 50% of the energy market by 2050. But even so, they warn, without bolder emission cuts, we'll be blowing past our current climate targets. Read article »   Ocean acidification could destroy shelled animals by 2030 By Alexandra Gerea on Jun 16, 2015 02:08 pm Ocean acidification, one of the often ignored dangers associated with climate change is becoming increasingly worrying. As our climate becomes hotter and hotter, the oceans become more and more acidic, and this threatens some animals' ability to create and maintain carbonatic shells. Read article »   Researchers create coldest molecules – colder than interstellar space By Dragos Mitrica on Jun 16, 2015 01:17 pm MIT researchers have managed to create incredibly cold molecules, much colder than even interstellar space. In this new experiment, sodium potassium (NaK) molecules were brought down to 500 nanokelvins, just a touch more than 0 Kelvin - the absolute lowest possible temperature. Read article »