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In Memoriam: Beatrix Hamburg, a Life of Purpose and Achievement
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A combination of industrial robot arms, parallel grippers, force-detecting sensors (mounted on the robotic “wrists”) and 3-D cameras successfully assembled an IKEA chair in around 20 minutes.
Chair-Building Task Puts Robot Dexterity to the Test

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AAAS Connects Scientists and Students with Classroom Science Days
News from the
2018 AAAS Annual Meeting

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  • AAAS Celebrates Federal Spending Increases for Scientific Research

    23 March 2018

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  • Climate Change May Have Spurred Hominin Tech Advances

    14 March 2018

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    By about 320,000 years ago, humans in the Olorgesailie Basin began using color pigments and manufacturing more sophisticated tools, which were carefully crafted and more specialized than the large, all-purpose handaxes.
  • Response to Caribbean Storms Offers Lessons on Resiliency, Opportunity

    9 March 2018

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  • Massive Family Tree Sheds Light on War, Culture, Longevity

    1 March 2018

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    Shedding light on humanity by quantitative analysis of the family stories of millions of genealogists.
  • Scientists Must Adapt to “Inflection Point” in Cancer Research, Says Biden

    18 February 2018

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  • AAAS Asks Justice Department to Modify Fingerprint Reporting Guidelines

    28 March 2018

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  • Omnibus Would Provide Largest Research Increase in Nearly a Decade

    22 March 2018

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  • Marine Dead Zones in Gulf of Mexico Are Expected To Last Decades

    21 March 2018

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    Harmful algal blooms, dead zones, and fish kills are the results of a process called eutrophication.
  • Experts Explore the Impact of Architecture and Design on the Brain

    20 March 2018

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