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🇨🇳 This magnetic slime robot was directly inspired by the movie Venom.
Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong created it using neodymium particles, PVA, and borax.
Some of the things it can do:
* Squeeze through gaps as small as 1.5 mm.
* Change shape to wrap around and grab objects.
* Self-heal after being cut, then stretch up to 8.6× its original length.
* Conduct electricity and reconnect broken circuits.
* Be controlled simply by rotating an external magnet.
* One of its main proposed uses is retrieving swallowed objects without surgery.
If this thing grows teeth, I'm out.
Writer: Daniyal
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran didn't win the war militarily. It won it strategically. And that's the kind of victory that lasts.
Tehran's goal was never to defeat the U.S. Air Force. It was to survive long enough for the economic pain to become unbearable for Washington.
38 days of closing Hormuz, spiking oil to $115, rattling every Gulf economy, and making Americans feel the war at the gas pump.
One analyst put it simply: "They made sure the war was felt in the U.S. I don't think Trump's going to try that again."
That sentence is the entire outcome of this war in 15 words.
Iran emerged with two things it didn't have on February 28th.
De facto control over the Strait of Hormuz with a framework to monetize it.
And a proven deterrent that makes any future large-scale attack carry a price tag no American president will want to pay.
The U.S. and Israel struck 12,300+ targets, sank much of Iran's navy, killed its Supreme Leader, and degraded its missile stockpiles.
By every traditional military metric, they dominated.
And yet the ceasefire happened on a timeline Trump didn't choose, under conditions Iran proposed, with the Strait still in Tehran's hands.
This is the part that should concern everyone most.
The regime emerged more hardline, not less.
The IRGC has more power than before the war.
The new Supreme Leader is taking a harder stance than his father.
And the protesters who rose up hoping American bombs would bring freedom are now being hunted as potential spies.
The war was supposed to weaken Iran and strengthen American leverage.
Iran is now collecting tolls on the world's most important waterway.
The war was supposed to create conditions for regime change.
The regime is more entrenched than ever. The war was supposed to end Iran's nuclear ambitions. Tehran says it will keep enriching.
Every stated objective failed.
The one unstated objective, Hormuz leverage over China, was handed to Iran instead.
Source: WSJ
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Steve Witkoff met Iran's Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi after Trump told him to.
"This is going to be about President Trump's policies, not Mr. Pahlavi's policies."
🇮🇷🇺🇸 THE 7 WAYS A U.S. STRIKE ON IRAN COULD GO OFF THE RAILS, AND NONE OF THEM ARE “SMOOTH”
Everyone’s saying the U.S. looks days away from hitting Iran, and the menu of possible outcomes ranges from “hopeful fantasy” to “welcome to the apocalypse.”
1. The Disney ending
Precision strikes, IRGC bases gone, leadership collapses, democracy magically appears.
Cute idea. Unfortunately, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and literally every Western intervention ever would like a word.
2. The Venezuela special
The regime survives but gets bullied into behaving because the U.S. parks enough firepower around them to blot out the sun.
They stay in power, but on a very short leash.
3. The “new boss, same as the old boss” coup
The regime collapses… and the Revolutionary Guard just takes over.
Protesters lose, Trump loses, everyone loses except the guys with the guns.
4. Iran hits back hard
Missiles rain down on U.S. bases, Israel, Qatar, UAE, Saudi, take your pick. Air defenses stop most of them.
“Most” is doing a lot of work here.
5. Hormuz becomes a booby trap
Iran mines the Strait of Hormuz, 20% of global oil traffic chokes instantly.
World economy: “sick, awesome, didn’t need stability anyway.”
Iran: also hurts itself in the process, but desperation is a hell of a drug.
6. The nightmare scenario
Iran swarms a U.S. ship with drones, torpedoes, speedboats, and actually sinks one.
Total humiliation.
Captured U.S. sailors paraded on Iranian TV = Carter 2.0 but with memes.
7. Full-blown national collapse
Regime falls, and the country snaps along ethnic lines, Kurds, Baluchis, Azeris, everyone armed, everyone settling scores.
Humanitarian crisis, refugees, chaos, perfect storm.
This is the scenario keeping Saudi, Qatar, and UAE awake at night.
Bottom line:
Trump has marched everything right up to the edge.
If he hits the button, no one, not even him, knows which version we get.
Source: BBC