John Leicester

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The robo-armadillo consists of three layers. The outer layer, or exoskeleton, consists of a series of segmented, curved scales made from a 3D printed resin. The middle is the sensing and actuation layer. Finally, the endoskeleton layer consists of segmental scales.
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Patrick Bauman, Colter Backcountry founder and CEO (left) and brother Daniel Bauman, chief fishing officer.
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In this Thursday, April 20, 2017 photo, the $1.5million NIO EP9 is displayed at the Shanghai auto show. NIO is part of a wave of fledgling automakers - all backed at least in part by Chinese investors - that are propelling the electric vehicle industry's latest trend: ultra-high-performance cars.
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The sensor is placed on the inside of the tire, where the tire wall and tread interferes with an electric field that arcs between two electrodes. That interference can be measured to determine the thickness of the rubber.
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The Peugeot Hypersquare is presented at the Paris Auto Show, in Paris, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.
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The logo of the French General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) is pictured in Paris, Monday Aug. 31, 2020.
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The advanced technology, with possible military uses, was smuggled to China and Russia.
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A worker walks among pipelines that will carry gas toward Rambouillet, France, May 3, 2022.
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Europe's Farmers Stir Up Biogas to Offset Russian Energy
They'll soon turn on the tap of a new facility where crops and agricultural waste are mashed up and fermented.
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This file photo shows workers collecting red grapes in the vineyards of the famed Chateau Haut Brion, a Premier Grand Cru des Graves, during the grape harvest season, in Pessac-Leognan, near Bordeaux, southwestern France.
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No-Spray Zones Create Rift
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In this picture taken Tuesday, Sept 3, 2019, netted in Scottish waters, langoustines are delicately packed by hand into boxes, each upright in its own individual compartment, in Eyemouth, south coast of Edinburgh, Scotland. In their drive to uncouple Britain from the European Union, pro-Brexit campaigners have turned fishing into one of their battlegrounds. But while some seafood industry workers want out of the EU, others are alarmed at the prospect of losing frictionless access to EU consumers.
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Seafood Industry Braces for Brexit
A holdup on the long, usually obstacle-free journey, even of just half a day, can be fatal for the fragile critters, turning prized seafood into worthless waste.
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Visitors looks at the flying car Pegasus 1, built by French entrepreneur Jerome Dauffy at Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, east of Paris, France, Tuesday, June 20, 2017 in Paris. Aviation professionals and spectators are expected at this week's Paris Air Show, coming in, in a thousands from around the world to make business deals.
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, file photo, an F-35 jet arrives at its new operational base at Hill Air Force Base, in northern Utah. Airbus and Boeing will again hog the spotlight at the Paris Air Show with their battle for ever-larger slices of the lucrative pie in the sky.
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