MIT's New Plastic Muscles Could Bring Us One Step Closer to a Real-Life Westworld
Thanks to this research, robotic butlers might one day be accessible to more than just the super rich.
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Thanks to this research, robotic butlers might one day be accessible to more than just the super rich.
A 95-per-cent-complete skeleton that was painstakingly assembled over the course of 40 years has sold to an unnamed private collector for a whopping £346,300.
And there could be more to come.
Everybody needs Morris in their life.
It may be one-hundredth the size of a pinhead, but it's incredibly important.
A new study contradicts this claim, pointing to other factors that may be responsible for the perceived anti-ageing effects of young blood.
A recent study found that California’s San Andreas Fault could actually rupture along its entire 800-mile length.
System says: potential future paedophile.
An exquisitely preserved fossil found in China still contains the original biological compounds that gave a 130-million-year-old bird its shading and colour.
At least it's something a bit safer than a nuclear reactor.
To say meteorologists are excited about GOES-R would be a severe understatement.
Swooping by at a unique angle, NASA’s Dawn space probe recently captured some of the clearest views yet of dwarf planet Ceres. Read More >>
The announcement could threaten important research, while also undermining those who are most affected, namely women, children, and the poor.
California drought update: It’s still bad. Like, so bad.
Safe to say, this commode will never flush again.
Placed on Earth, it would stretch from Washington DC to New York to Denver. Larger than the Grand Canyon, wider and deeper than East Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Mercury’s newly-discovered “Great Valley” boggles the imagination.
