Light-sensitive muscles will enable robots to move like real animals
A recent breakthrough at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania is set to make the spastic and jerky movements of robots a thing of the past. Using animals for inspiration, researchers have...
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The Eight Super-Adaptable Life Forms That Rule Our Planet
As the most intelligent and technologically advanced species on Earth, we humans like to think that we own the place. But evolutionary success can be measured any number of ways. As evolutionary...
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Further evidence that there are many habitable planets for humans to colonize
An international team of scientists working at European HARPS have announced the discovery of a large rocky planet residing within the stellar habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 163. That...
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A new species of bee that survives solely by invading other beehives
It would now appear that cuckoo birds are not the only animal that has the nasty habit of laying its eggs in another animal's nest. A newly discovered species of bee has been observed to invade the...
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Couple finds medieval well hidden beneath sofa
A retired civil servant living in Plymouth, England, recently decided to figure out once and for all why there was a dip in the floor underneath his sofa. After three days of work, and much to his...
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Neuroscientists successfully control the dreams of rats. Could humans be next?
Researchers working at MIT have successfully manipulated the content of a rat's dream by replaying an audio cue that was associated with the previous day's events, namely running through a maze (what...
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Futurists set up charitable fund to help terminally ill woman get cryonically...
Several weeks ago, 23-year old Kim Suozzi asked the Reddit community what she should do with the last few months of her life. Suozzi, who has terminal brain cancer, is only expected to live for...
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RIP futurist Shulamith Firestone, who hailed artificial wombs and cybernetics...
Shulamith Firestone, author of the highly influential The Dialectic of Sex, has died at the age of 67. A major figure in the development of cyberfeminism, Firestone will be remembered for her...
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How the Soviets used their own twisted version of psychiatry to suppress...
Over the course of its 69-year history, the Soviet Union was notorious for its heavy-handed suppression of political dissent — most infamously through its use of the Siberian GULAGs. But it was during...
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Oscar Pistorius loses gold medal race, blames it on opponent's use of technology
They say that turnabout is fair play. And indeed, after all the talk that Oscar Pistorius's prosthetic Cheetah's were giving him an unfair advantage against normal functioning athletes, it would...
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Introducing Migaloo, the world’s first canine archeologist
A three-year-old female black labrador cross named Migaloo has become the world's first trained archeology dog. Working with Brisbane dog expert Gary Jackson, she is expected to help archeologists...
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No, organic foods aren't more nutritious than other kinds
Many of us pay a huge premium at the grocery store for items that are labeled as "organic" — or feel guilty if we don't. The coveted "organic" label is supposed to mean something is all-natural, and...
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Cardinal says Catholic Church is '200 years behind,' shortly before dying
Progressive Roman Catholic Cardinal Carlo Martini died last Friday of Parkinson's disease at the age of 85. Shortly before his death, however, and knowing that he didn't have much time left, he did a...
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Can technology help us put an end to animal experimentation?
Nobody likes the idea of experimenting on animals. It seems like the definition of inhumanity, especially when you consider the growing evidence that animals have awareness just like us. But there's no...
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Do men and women really see the world differently?
People often say that men and women tend to have dramatically different perspectives — but a new study from Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges of the City University of New York literally suggests that this...
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This is what the 'Google pyramid' looks like from up close
Early last month we told you about the satellite archaeologist who thought she discovered lost Egyptian pyramids using Google Earth. Well, it turns out that the structures may not be pyramids — but...
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Hi-tech neon 'GloFish' could threaten natural species
Back in 2003, biotech company Yorktown Technologies developed a genetically modified fluorescent fish that was neon-bright and glowed in the dark under black light. Since that time, the company has...
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There's a 50-50 chance of another 9/11-sized attack within a decade
As we approach the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack, we can be grateful that nothing like it has happened since. But that doesn't mean that something very much like 9/11 — or even worse —...
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Kevin J. Anderson talks Clockwork Angels, his new novel with Rush drummer...
Kevin J. Anderson's latest novel, Clockwork Angels, officially hit the bookshelves this past Tuesday (September 4). Set in a quasi-dystopian steampunk and alchemy-infused world, the novel is a...
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Astronauts repair space station with toothbrush
Yet another reason to never leave home without your toothbrush. As Gina Sunseri of ABC reports: A $100 billion space station saved by a simple $3 toothbrush? It was the brainstorm of astronauts Sunita...
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