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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A first-of-its-kind, soft, vest-like wearable designed by Harvard researchers could help stroke survivors and people living with ALS regain crucial upper limb movement. The researchers call the device a “wearable robot,” which uses inflatable balloons positioned under a patient’s arm that  bulge and contract based on the desired movement. A combination of machine learning software and a separate physics-based model helps the robot interpret the patient’s intended movements and personalize actions accordingly. In testing, the robot was able to correctly identify the user’s intended shoulder movement 94.2…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

A new study finds that light pollution makes birds’ days last longer. Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The early bird gets the worm, as the old saying goes. And now a lot of birds around the globe are starting their days earlier than ever, because of unnaturally bright skies caused by light pollution. “For these birds, effectively their day is almost an hour longer. They start vocalizing about 20 minutes earlier in the morning and they stop vocalizing about 30 minutes later in the evening,” says Neil Gilbert, a…

Simon JackBusiness editor, BBC NewsBBC/Spencer StokesCourt hearings to decide on the steel firm’s future had previously been adjourned several timesThe UK’s third-largest steelworks has been placed under government control, creating an uncertain future for nearly 1,500 workers in Rotherham and Sheffield.Insolvency courts granted a compulsory winding up order sought by creditors owed hundreds of millions of pounds by Speciality Steels UK (SSUK) – part of the Liberty Steel metals empire of controversial tycoon Sanjeev Gupta.The company, which uses scrap metal to manufacture steel, will now be placed in the hands of the official receiver – a government appointed liquidator -…

General Fusion, a Canadian nuclear fusion energy startup, announced today that it had been thrown a lifeline in the form of $22 million in fresh funding. The company had laid off at least 25% of its employees in May in a bid to shore up its stretched finances. At the same time, CEO Greg Twinney wrote an open letter pleading for funding. The additional cash will give General Fusion some breathing room, though not much. A subset of General Fusion’s existing investors ultimately ponied up for what the Globe and Mail reports was a “pay to play” round — a…

Philippa RoxbyHealth reporterGetty ImagesTreatment for millions of people with type 2 diabetes should be more personalised, with greater access to newer medicines, including weight-loss drugs, the healthcare assessment body for England, Wales and Northern Ireland has recommended.It calls the move “the biggest shake-up” in type 2 diabetes care in a decade.Offering more people the new drugs will prevent complications such as heart disease, strokes and kidney damage, reduce costs to the NHS and potentially save lives, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says. Around 4.6 million people in the UK are diagnosed with diabetes – of these…

Millie Bobby Brown has announced she and husband Jake Bongiovi have adopted a baby daughter.The 21-year-old star of Stranger Things and Enola Holmes posted a message on Instagram saying: “This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption.”We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy.”It ended: “And then there were 3. Love, Millie and Jake Bongiovi.” The couple didn’t reveal the name of their new addition.The news comes 15 months after the actress married Bongiovi, the 23-year-old son of rock singer Jon Bon Jovi.At the end of last year,…

Violence has marred the second leg of the Copa Sudamericana round of 16 clash between Independiente and Universidad de Chile as shocking scenes were witnessed at the stadium in Buenos Aires on a tragic night for the sport. The match had to be interrupted in the second half of play due to an outbreak of fan violence before being abandoned, with two fans stabbed and one has life-threatening injuries, according to multiple reports.Dozens of fans were taken to a local hospital, and many were in serious condition, according to TyC Sports. One fan could be seen falling from the top…

The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AI—after the protagonist of the “Monkey King” legend in Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong—the chatbot was introduced on the space station in mid-July, and has already completed its first mission: supporting three taikonauts during a spacewalk.Information about Wukong AI remains limited. Chinese authorities have said that they developed it from a domestic open-source AI model; according to Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, engineers designed it to meet the requirements of manned space missions, and focused its knowledge-base on aerospace flight…

Newcastle rejected the Merseyside club’s offer for the Swedish international, but Liverpool don’t appear to have given up.Liverpool boss Arne Slot said on Thursday the Premier League champions will only sign the right player for the right price, but refused to be drawn on the club’s position regarding unsettled Newcastle striker Alexander Isak.Since Liverpool’s reported 110-million-pound ($148m) bid for the 25-year-old Sweden international was rejected earlier this month, they have not held further talks, but equally do not appear to have given up hope of bringing Isak to Anfield.Newcastle, for their part, are reported to be demanding a British record…