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IN A NUTSHELL 🔍 Researchers developed a new framework for robotic swarms, mimicking the decentralized control in groups of birds, fish, and bees. ⚙️ The study introduces “curvity,” an intrinsic quality allowing robots to curve in response to external forces, enhancing swarm intelligence. 🏥 Applications include improved search-and-rescue operations, wildfire detection, and precision drug delivery systems. 🚀 The framework could …

Inside Trump’s DC crackdown: Swarms of agents and arrests for minor offenses  Reuters ‘It’s a real mess’: DC courts buckling as Trump’s crime crackdown brings deluge of new cases  CNN ‘The most illegal search’: Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges  NPR In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests  The New York Times Local DC cases are landing in federal …

Under the cover of darkness, thousands of tiny bumblebee catfish were caught orange finned by police, wriggling their way up a waterfall in Brazil. The boulders of the Aquidauana River waterfall are up to 4 meters high, yet somehow these catfish (Rhyacoglanis paranensis), which are less than 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) long, manage to scale them like mini Olympic rock …

Termites in Florida have always posed problems for homeowners, but a newly discovered hybrid species is causing fresh alarm. Researchers recently identified an invasive hybrid termite species thriving in South Florida, combining characteristics from two destructive termite varieties to create an unusually resilient pest. Discovery of a Troubling Hybrid Scientists at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural …