A frightening new development has emerged from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and its something out of a dystopian fiction novel. The concept they’ve created is known as “neural dust,” which is a dust that can be implanted into people’s brains for data collection purposes. And the most unsettling part of it all is […]

One of the trademarks that distinguishes robots from humans is the ability to reproduce. This dividing between man and machine just got blurrier. Researchers in Amsterdam have created robots that can mate and spawn offspring through a process similar to human reproduction. Robots have created quite a stir in the media recently, as more and more […]

Although astronomers are currently looking for extraterrestrial life, it’s not known whether space aliens would be friendly or hostile to Earthlings. In the event humanity needs to hide its presence, astronomers have figured out a way to shield Earth from alien observers. Astronomers search for Earth-like planets by looking for light dips that imply a […]

Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwanese company which produces iPhones and iPads, is the latest major tech business to lay-off several of its employees in favor of robots. Foxconn has been trying to replace its employees with robots for quite sometime in order to save money and boost profits. “The Foxconn factory has reduced its employee […]

One of the greatest challenges of space travel is to figure out a way to cross long distances in a short amount of time. With directed energy propulsion – a propulsion system that involves using a photon driver to push a spacecraft near light speed – this feet could be bridged. Directed energy propulsion isn’t […]

Space, the final frontier. Folks like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and a thousand others in between and around NASA, are spending millions to hewn the road to space. Included in this mix is a young visionary from California named Justin Lewis-Weber. He’s not aiming for Mars, however. He’s proposing a plan to increase solar energy to planet Earth. How? Just put solar […]

I look at rocks on Mars for a living—a lot of rocks. Because of this, I’ve gotten pretty good at knowing what to expect and what not to expect when analyzing the chemical make-up of a Martian rock. You expect to find lots of basalt, the building block of all planets. (Article by Nina Lanza) What […]

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will spur sentient robots that ought to be granted human rights, argues Oxford University professor and mathematician, Marcus du Sautoy,  for the public understanding of science. “It’s getting to a point where we might be able to say this thing has a sense of itself and maybe there is a […]

An assembly of 25 scientists Thursday initiated a proposal to create the first synthetic human genome in the lab. The synthetic genome plan was a product of two behind-the-scenes meetings. One was based in New York last year and the other happened May 10 at Harvard University, noted the Washington Post. The recent announcement was […]

MIT researchers claim to have created the first five-atom quantum computer capable of cracking traditional encryption methods, potentially enabling the government to crack all encryption in seconds. In traditional computing, numbers are represented by 0’s and 1’s. In quantum computing, however, these units are referred to as “qubits”, and can occupy a superposition of different […]

(NewsTarget.com) HEALTH RANGER REPORT. Threat alert condition RED for all large U.S. cities. Summaries of today’s stories: * Pokemon Go is an insane new augmented reality game that’s taking the world by storm. The game overlays virtual monsters onto real geographic map locations in cities around the world, requiring players to physically go to those […]

A roboticist from California has created a contraption that intentionally stabs people with a needle. Contrary to its mechanical brethren, this is the first robot purposefully designed to inflict pain on humans. In order to ignite an ethical controversy, the robot goes against the author and professor of biochemisty Isaac Asimov’s first and second law […]

Robert Hannigan is the Director of the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHK). That agency name is chalk full of Orwellian intent. This communications group was not created for government transparency on the behalf of British tax payers. No, this is another arrow in the quiver of a global scientific dictatorship. GCHK is actually an electronic surveillance and eavesdropping unit, comparable to the U.S. National […]

Using ground penetrating radar, a team of archaeologists has uncovered a tunnel dug by Jewish concentration camp prisoners to escape the Nazis. (Article by George Dvorsky) An archaeological team led by Richard Freund from the University of Hartford and Jon Seligman from the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered the existence of the tunnel at Ponar, a suburb […]

Where do we draw the line on what makes a human? In an age where identifying as something that doesn’t match your biological makeup is commonplace, there’s a lot of debate over what truly defines a living being. Is gender real? Are we born with certain gender roles? We could go on for hours listing all […]