It's only a matter of until robots turn against us thanks to Pentti Haikonen, an electrical engineer and professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois in Springfield. Haikonen is attempting to build a conscious robot that feels by getting it to associate colors with pain! The problem is that a conventional robot ... [Read More]

There's rock-solid evidence of life on Mars according to Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily. His eagle-eye spotted a rodent in a area known as the "Rocknest," photographed by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity last year. "Its a cute rodent on Mars," Waring writes. "Note it's lighter color upper and lower eyelids, it's nose ... [Read More]

Glucose-baited cockroach traps quickly lost their effectiveness after they were introduced in mid-1980s and researchers at North Carolina State University think they know why: evolution. The study published in Science discovered a glucose-aversion among German cockroaches, which despite their name are found all over the ... [Read More]

IBM has made it into the Guinness Book of Records for the world's smallest stop-motion movie, A Boy And His Atom. (video below) The minute and half long movie features a stick-figure composed entirely of atoms, which were enlarged 100 million times. IBM's Noble Prize-winning scanning tunneling microscope (STM) was used ... [Read More]

If looking at pictures of cute animals like fuzzy kittens and cuddly puppies fills you with the uncontrollable urge to squeeze the life out of them, rest assured that you're not a "budding sociopath" says Rebecca Dyer, a graduate student in psychology at Yale University. The phenomenon dubbed "cute aggression" was ... [Read More]

Researchers from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and the Institute of Scientific Instruments (ISI) in the Czech Republic have created a real-life tractor beam like the one popularized in Star Trek. The beam of light reverses the radiation force that normally pushes away objects such as the tail of a comet, which ... [Read More]

Is your Christmas tree drowning in tinsel? Is it more ornament than tree? Can the Christmas lights be seen from space? There's literally a solution: Christmas Treegonometry. The University of Sheffield's Maths society (SUMS) came up with a series of formulas for the perfectly decorated Christmas tree as part of a challenge ... [Read More]