Russia plays by its own rules. This has never been more apparent than the present, with Vladimir Putin and company doing whatever they want in spite of the potential blow-back from other countries around the globe. It has now been reported that Russia is likely to deploy missiles with nuclear capabilities along the NATO (North […]

Are you someone who doesn’t care much for spicy foods? If you are, you might just be cutting your life short. That’s according to international team of researchers led by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, which has concluded that eating spicy foods could be the key to greater longevity. The team found that eating […]

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has made the decree: We’re in the midst of a fourth industrial revolution. All those fast food folks fighting for $15 per hour wages are causalities. Here’s how the WEF describes it: “The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, and […]

Young people may have their first sexual encounter with robots in the near future, according an expert, which could hinder their ability to form meaningful relationships. Speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival, professor Noel Sharkey from Sheffield University cautioned that android sex dolls may have damaging reverberations for society. “Sex robots are accessible now and […]

Would you trust a robot cop over an actual cop? That is the dilemma Chinese citizens are facing with the debut of the country’s first “intelligent security robot.” The machine is a spinning image of one of Dr. Who’s notorious Daleks, and delivers an electric shock to keep rioters in place. It’s also equipped with […]

Doomsday is a lot closer than you might think, but don’t worry; scientists have contrived a variety of possible ways we might be able to survive the impending apocalypse. Although the sun isn’t expected to burn out for another 6 billion years, astronomers believe in about 500 million years, the gradual swelling of the sun […]

A startup company known as Lilium Aviation is in the process of developing the world’s first vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, making it a major game changer for private jet flying. The aircraft, known as the Lilium jet, combines the vertical take-off capabilities of a helicopter with the flying capabilities of a fixed-wing aircraft. […]

Would you trust a surgeon or a robot with your life? Recent events suggest you should prefer the latter. A piece of technology known as the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) did a better job at stitching a pig’s small intestines than human surgeons who performed the same task. The creators of STAR do not […]

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready herbicide, is in practically everything. A whopping 93 percent of Americans were found to have glyphosate in their urine samples during a testing project that began in 2015. Glyphosate was deemed “probably carcinogenic” to human health in 2015 by the World Health Organization (WHO). The results of […]

Extraterrestrial life may flash out of existence as quickly as it flashes into existence, according to astrobiologists from ANU Research School of Earth Sciences. In an effort to understand how life might have originated, the researchers hypothesize that life quickly dies out as soon as it develops due to the runaway heating or cooling of […]

James Young lost his arm in an unfortunate accident about 4 years ago, when he accidentally fell under a train while trying to board it. Fortunately, through innovative technology, Young now has a bionic-arm like a character straight out of Metal Gear Solid. In wake of the accident, James went  home with what he dubbed a […]

Mass extinctions, events where a significantly large number of species go extinct, have occurred five times throughout Earth’s history. Although extinction is part of the natural evolutionary process, some suspect a ninth planet lurking on the edges of the solar system may be responsible for the wave of mass extinctions to sandblast the planet. New […]

Virtual Reality (VR) continues its pervasive ascent. But it’s more than VR video games or VR movies where one purposely suspends cognition for entertainment purposes. In the past two years, the idea of “immersive journalism” has been barnstorming the newsroom. Nonny de la Peña is considered the Virtual Reality pioneer; she created the very first VR “journalistic” story called Hunger in Los […]

Every once in a while, our lives come to a grinding halt. Someone we love is diagnosed with a terminal disease and then dies. Released in early January, the video game, ‘That Dragon, Cancer’ is about the process of grief. Departing from traditional shooting and sports games, Ryan and Amy Green created the game as […]

A small group of scientists across the United States are attempting to create embryos that are part human and part animal, otherwise known as chimeras. Chimera is a term for a mythical Greek creature consisting of part lion, part goat and part snake. In modern times, the term has been used to describe a single […]