Obese or overweight people have large amounts of body fat which can result in health problems such as diabetes, cancer and high blood pressure. They are also more prone to develop insulin resistance, which is a precursor to diabetes. How does marijuana use help to control obesity? Although marijuana use is commonly associated with increased […]

Alzheimers is a progressive disease that results in memory loss, thinking ability and behavior. Dementia symptoms worsen over time. Usually sufferers live for an average of 8 years after their symptoms become noticeable to others. Does marijuana really inhibit progression of the disease? An increasing population of elderly people means that Alzheimer’s disease is expected […]

Do you really want to know what’s in your food? Nowadays, there’s really no telling what ingredients the food industry puts into our meals, after it was discovered that recycled and reprocessed animal meat waste is actually added to a variety of consumable grocery goods — including ice cream! Researchers from Italy, Belgium and elsewhere have been developing novel […]

Pepper is one of the most human-like robots in the world, not so much for its hominid appearance, but for its ability to mirror primal emotions. The machine is revered as the first “robot with a heart.” Pepper was a hit in Japan. The country’s SoftBank Robotics Corporation reports that 1,000 units of the humanoid […]

Seth Shostak, the director of communication at the Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) Institute, is optimistic with respect to the search for extraterrestrials. When it comes to the future of humanity, however, Shostak is a little more grim. In an opinion piece for SETI entitled, “Could This Be Humanity’s Last Century?,” Shostak suggests that the […]

Harvard University has been granted $28 million to try to figure out why human brains are better at processing and absorbing information than artificial intelligence (A.I.). The award, provided by the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity (IARPA), could make A.I. systems more like the breathing tissue of biological brains than the cold steel of artificial silicon. A […]

Newt Gingrich’s promise to build a manned moon base by 2020 was met with disbelieving stares during the last presidential election. Comparable remarks made by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) new boss, Jan Woerner, have provoked similar responses.(1) Hopes for a manned moon base equipped with robots and people are batted as just another crazy idea at […]

Despite a funding ban, several U.S. research facilities are moving forward with experiments that could produce human–animal chimeras. The possibility is fueled by scientists attempting to grow human organs inside animals like sheep and pigs. Approximately 20 animals have been impregnated with human organs in the last year under the watchful eyes of American universities. […]

As technology continues to grow, personal privacy continues to shrink—including your very thoughts. A new “mind reading” device that has been developed by Japanese researchers is capable of deciphering words from brain waves before they are spoken. Scientists have discovered that electrical activity in the brain is the same whether or not someone speaks their […]

Robots will outnumber humans in 24 to 39 years, claims Logan Streondj, a software programmer and science fiction writer. Whether or not humans and robots will co-exist peacefully, however, remains an open question. Streondj wanted to find out how long it would take the robot population to meet and exceed the human population while preparing […]

Humai, a new artificial intelligence (A.I.) company, is “reinventing the afterlife” by aiming to bring people back from the grave by 2045. According to the company, this feat will be accomplished with A.I. and nanotechnologies that store data about how the body works. In other words, get ready — the robozombie apocalypse is just around the […]

Crysoleep – a deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperatures to preserve it – used to be confined merely to the world of science fiction. At the end of last year, however, NASA and SpaceWorks Enterprises unveiled plans to drastically change the nature of space travel, which could make cryosleep a […]

Since vehicles first took the roads by storm, humanity has envisioned a future where cars pave the sky. Unfortunately, flying cars are a reality nowhere to be found except in cartoon programs like The Jetsons. Nevertheless, the dream of flying cars has inched closer to a reality. The Federal Aviation Administration has authorized Terrafugia to […]

The world seems to be teetering on the brink of collapse with the rise of ISIS, the looming economic downturn and the corrosion of civil liberties. If the apocalypse does occur, it is currently being posited that the top one percent plans to flee to Mars and leave the gamut of us to face extinction. […]