Xenobots in a petri dish collecting stem cells for kinematic replication. Screenshot: YouTube / University of Vermont / Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin, and Josh Bongard (Fair Use) ...

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Sex is a tricky business, evolutionarily speaking. One problem is that sexually reproducing organisms must suffer the considerable faff of securing a mate (for the males of some species, the struggle ...