Author: Breana Ceballos

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Scientists have managed to create and implement living skin for robots. Their aim is to make these robots more approachable in the service and medical industries. Robotics has made many leaps and bounds into the territory of creating believable androids, this is just one more step in that direction. While human skin has been successfully recreated for skin grafts and burn victims, this discovery is purely for robots. To create the skin solution, Japanese scientists mixed collagen and human dermal fibroblasts. The skin is water repellant and self healing. Professor Shoji Takeuchi at the University of Tokyo is the lead…

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The first documented albino giant tortoise has been hatched! To date, there has never been another documented in captivity or in the wild. While it’s probably not the first, this is the first one the world has seen. The zoo is calling it the first of its kind. The hatchling emerged on May 1st at the Tropiquarium Zoo in Servion, Switzerland. On May 5th, its darker colored sibling hatched. The albino baby was born to it’s 220lb Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis niger) mother. “We were surprised to discover an albino baby among our Galapagos giant tortoise babies, this phenomenon had…

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