Tech start-up Figure's "general-purpose" concept droid design resembles a slick, next-generation version of parkour-jumping Atlas - with a computer for a face. Former Boston Dynamics and Tesla Engineers aim to build the “first-of-its kind” worker robot to undertake “unsafe and undesirable jobs”. Houston, where’s the USB port...race for moon data centres with US tech lunar tech firm Lonestar. Genetic variants 'link to human infertility'. Is Xiaomi’s new 12S Ultra Concept a DSLR camera-killer?

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• Vegetables and salad shortage sparks UK grow-your-own seeds boom
• How whales and dolphins use ‘phonic lips’ to make loudest animal sounds
• Electric flight record for vertical take-off plane
• Holiday rock...geologist tourist finds secret meteorite crater

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