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The Lawn Tennis Association tried to push Glasgow as a host city for this year's event, but it was overlooked because it is not at the same altitude as Madrid, where Sunday night's final was played.

1. A humanoid robot makes eerily lifelike facial expressions  The Verge
2. Astounding human-like robot Ameca 'wakes up'  Reuters
3. Ameca humanoid robot has ultra-realistic human face expressions  Inceptive Mind
4. Video of realistic robot with human features has the internet terrified  The indy100
5. Straight Outta Black Mirror: Human-like 'Ameca' Robot is Freaking Everyone Out  News18
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Engineered Arts, a UK-based designer and manufacturer of humanoid robots, recently showed off one of its most lifelike creations in a video posted on YouTube. The robot, called Ameca, is shown making a series of incredibly human-like facial expressions.

The first large scale characterisation of methane emissions in Irish beef cattle conclusively shows that some beef cattle can produce up to 30% less methane emissions, on average, for the same level of productivity.

The UConn women’s basketball team currently is ranked No. 2 in the nation, but their future is uncertain after sophomore star Paige Bueckers left Sunday’s game with a non-contact knee injury. Bueckers was helped off the court by teammates after she collapsed in front of the UConn bench with 38 seconds left to play against […]

Murray Bartlett reveals that Nick Offerman will appear in HBO's adaptation of the video game The Last of Us in a role that has yet to be announced.

Auckland, New Zealand [December 6, 2021] – Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today released its annual list of the key data centre trends to watch in 2022, headlined by a dramatic acceleration ...

Data collected by the Arecibo Radio Telescope before it collapsed late last year will help astronomers better understand how our local neighbourhood of galaxies formed.

Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Sunday rejected Western allegations they were carrying out targeted killings of security officials linked to the ousted U.S.-backed government in Kabul, saying the Islamist group was fully committed to enforcing a general amnesty across the country. “Any (Taliban) member found breaching amnesty decree will be prosecuted and penalized,” tweeted Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the Taliban Foreign Ministry spokesman. “Incidents (of targeted killings) will be thoroughly investigated... Читать дальше...

The head of the European Space Agency has urged the continent's leaders to stop facilitating Elon Musk's ambition to dominate the new space economy, warning that the lack of co-ordinated action meant ...

Japan’s Green Growth Strategy signals a commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – and hydrogen produced from renewable energy can play an important role in this shift. A team of researchers from Harvard University, Shandong University, China University of Petroleum Beijing and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have explored the possibility of producing hydrogen by electrolysis using power generated from offshore wind in China.

Chemists are honored for their contributions to treatments for bloodstream infections, cancer, diabetes, and heart failure

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New research from economics experts at Aston University has found Brexit has caused a largely negative effect on UK services trade since the EU referendum.

In Legacies season 4, episode 7, the two versions of Alaric in Lizzie's therapy box reveal a lot about how she views her dad. Here's what that means.

     This week - December 6 through December 11- central banks from 12 countries or jurisdictions are scheduled to decide on monetary policy: Kazakhstan, Australia, India, Georgia, Poland, Canada, Namibia, Brazil, Uzbekistan, Serbia, Ukraine and Peru.

Different institutions, including the University of Valencia (UV), have studied the relationship between sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass in older people) and obesity derived from this condition with a lack of protein in the diet of women over 65 years of age. 164 Valencian women participated in the study, published in the journal Nutrición Hospitalaria.