BYE BYE JET LAG Using mathematical analyses to calculate when users should seek out or avoid light, researchers may help sleepy travelers quickly adjust to new time zones.
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The Atlantic razor, or American jack knife, clam quickly burrows into soil by changing solid soil into a fluid. The process has inspired researchers to make a robot that digs the same way.
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SUITING UP Building robotic fish (one shown), may give researchers a way to sneak into groups of fish and track the schools' behaviors.
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