Washington State University produced two insect-like robots that are the tiniest, lightest, and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever made: the mini-bug and the water strider.
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Many of the WSU studies that grabbed headlines last year had to do with human health, topped by the discovery of a potentially dangerous virus in Russian bats, a relative of the one that causes COVID-19.
Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find, but a new study indicates there may be some at the center of dense star clusters located throughout the universe.