Despite its simplicity, the device spontaneously self-organized into coordinated traveling waves of motion and adapted automatically as mechanical load increased—mirroring how real muscles recruit additional force when needed.
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Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2026
The airport's police officers and firefighters organized the event to help their federal colleagues, who missed their first full paycheck last Friday amid the roughly month-long shutdown.
The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
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NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Mar. 2026
The bronze bison were created by paleoartist Gary Staab at the Art Casting Foundry in Loveland and made their first stop on their road trip at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science on March 11.
It had been renamed and expanded in size roughly a year ago from a previously existing treatment facility as part of the Taliban government's efforts to stamp out a significant drug addiction problem in the country.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Mar. 2026
Pho Foodie, a Vietnamese restaurant that’s currently in Bowie, expanded to North Laurel with a March 1 soft opening, giving Route 1 a new carryout option.
Social Security is financed by a payroll tax paid for by employers and employees.
—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Mar. 2026
Kowalska works at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, which is developing the first artificial intelligence factory in Poland and integrating it with a quantum computer, one of 10 on the continent financed by a European Union program.
Each bride’s dress has been billowed out and arranged around her in a circle, and these white figures are scattered at irregular intervals throughout the green field.
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Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
The financing for the upgrade will be in the form of credit arranged by Citibank and will generate supply contracts worth $314 million for British firms, the UK government said, including a $93 million contract for British Steel.
Fort Worth is now considering a tax break for Edged Data Centers, a subsidiary of sustainable infrastructure company Endeavor, for a data center to be developed on that land.
—
Emily Holshouser,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Mar. 2026
The team at the University of Edinburgh has developed this natural, biological process.
—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2026
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