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TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank’s robotics arm said on Monday it will bring a food service robot developed by California-based Bear Robotics to Japan as restaurants grapple with labour shortages and a new socially distanced norm as a result of the novel coronavirus.The robot named Servi will act as a sort of waiter, using its layers…

It’s dirt, baby! (Bristol Motor Speedway)That’s the slogan for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway next March that will see the half-mile oval converted into a dirt track in one of several shakeups coming to the 2021 schedule.Bristol covered its concrete in clay for World of Outlaws and support races in 2000…

TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank’s robotics arm said on Monday it will bring a food service robot developed by California-based Bear Robotics to Japan as restaurants grapple with labour shortages and a new socially distanced norm as a result of the novel coronavirus.The robot named Servi will act as a sort of waiter, using its layers…

(CNN)Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) have successfully narrowed down the source of a small air leak that had been growing in size. Kenny Todd, deputy manager of the space station, said the leak was first detected more than a year ago but had increased in the past couple of months. A fresh round…

Composite of images taken by Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki of Venus. Credit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic Study shows the destabilizing effect of the giant gas planet. Venus might not be a sweltering, waterless hellscape today, if Jupiter hadn’t altered its orbit around the sun, according to new UC Riverside research. Jupiter has…

Neanderthal teeth from Spy 94a in Belgium. (I. Crevecoeur/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Decades of teasing apart Neanderthal DNA has produced an archive of ancient genes that spell out a history of love affairs between estranged branches of humanity's family tree. Until now, the story has been rather lopsided. For whatever reason, the most…

SpaceX discovered unexpected erosion on its Crew Dragon spaceship's heat shield after its first astronaut mission. A SpaceX executive said the crew members — NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley — were never in danger. But as a precaution, SpaceX has updated the heat shield ahead of its next crewed launch in October. Visit…

NASA's Crew-1 crew members in SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft (left to right): NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins, as well as JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. SpaceX via NASA NASA announced on Friday that its next mission with SpaceX won't launch until late October at the earliest. That mission, called Crew-1, will ferry…