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It’s not a secret Donald Trump doesn’t understand wind, he’s demonstrated that before, but he doesn’t usually openly admit his failings. However, in a speech at an event in Florida this weekend, he told the crowd he has “never understood wind”. Trump, who was talking at Turning Point USA’s student action summit on Saturday, told the cheering crowd “I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody.” He means wind turbines, of course. Trump has been very vocal about his dislike of wind…

Scientists have created a new form of “robot,” not made out of metal, plastic, and wiring but formed entirely out of living cells.  Reporting in the journal PNAS, researchers from the University of Vermont and Tufts University describe how they crafted the first-ever “living machines” out of cells taken from the embryos of frogs. Dubbed “xenobots,” these miniature monsters were designed using algorithms that mimic the forces of natural selection.  “These are novel living machines. They’re neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It’s a new class of artifact: a…

Experts in China have declared the extinction of the giant Chinese paddlefish, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish. Once a resident of the Yangtze River, it hasn’t been seen since 2003, and it’s thought it died out sometime between 2005 and 2010. The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. However, due to various stressors – dams, overfishing, river ports, and pollution – the paddlefish is the third Yangzte-dwelling species to go extinct in recent years, following the Yangtze River dolphin, or…