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July 25


Student Designs Foldable Shield for Active-Shooter Scenarios


GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Andrew Bloomfield wants anyone caught in an active shooter nightmare to unfold a path to safety.

Disgusted by the mind-numbing trend of senseless, mass violence in recent years, the University of Florida engineering student – and putterer at heart – had been puzzling over ways people might protect themselves.

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July 21


Calculus Steers Women Away From STEM


A new study shows that calculus is 1.5 times more likely to discourage women than men from pursuing a STEM field.

Calculus is discouraging women from continuing to pursue their course of study in a science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, field.

That’s the latest finding from a mounting field of research about the gender gap in STEM studies.

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July 20


Having Stomach Troubles? Try Swallowing an Origami Robot


MIT researchers are working on an accordion-shaped robot that could help dislodge a foreign object.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Has your child swallowed a small battery? In the future, a tiny robot made from pig gut could capture it and expel it.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are designing an ingestible robot that could patch wounds, deliver medicine or dislodge a foreign object. They call their experiment an "origami robot" because the accordion-shaped gadget gets folded up and frozen into an ice capsule.

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