Daily briefing: These rappelling robots autonomously explore underground tunnels

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Nature, Published online: 14 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02657-w

A trio of robots help each other abseil into lava tubes without human oversight. Plus, ‘sex-reversed’ birds are surprisingly common and the beginning of a new era for quantum-gravity research.
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