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All the cool stuff that’s not really news, but is still awesome.

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A Video Game Could Help Detect Depression

Whereas most conditions can be detected and quantified relatively easily, depression is much harder to diagnose and assess. As the disease has been linked to an area of the brain that plays a role in spatial me... Continued
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Biology To The Rescue Of Robotics

Spurred by initial research in the US and based on biological experiments, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, have built a meter-long salamander robot controll... Continued
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A Two-Legged, Stair-Climbing Robot

Will this Japanese robot revolutionize the lives of those who are stuck in a wheelchair? It is able to handle all sorts of difficult terrain and can even go up and down a flight of stairs. Although it proba... Continued