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The truth about sex robots
28/02/2016 - 14:32
Before exploring why, however, let’s be more specific about what makes something a sex robot. Technically it could be anything robotic that... →
Sea levels rising at fastest rate in 2,800 years due to global warming
23/02/2016 - 13:46
Study co-author Stefan Rahmstorf, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said that if seas continued to rise as... →
Life on Mars
16/02/2016 - 13:58
Let’s be clear: simulated Mars (or sMars) is technically your world. The six of us landed on the big island of Hawaii in late August 2015.... →
Cryopreservation: wait not in vain
09/02/2016 - 13:45
What frogs do without thinking, human researchers are trying, with a great deal of thinking, to replicate. The prize is not the freezing... →
Young men are natural fanatics
05/02/2016 - 13:02
Why are young men like this? Part of it seems to depend on testosterone, acting on their brain during early foetal life. Exposure in the... →
Why people get more stupid in a crovd?
28/01/2016 - 16:29
When we get the hang of it, he throws out his first test question: “Have you ever cheated on a test?” The ‘nos’ move their dots to the left... →
What will it take for humans to colonize the Milky Way?
22/01/2016 - 18:41
On the other hand it would have to be small enough to accelerate to a fairly high speed, to shorten the voyagers’ time of exposure to... →
How will future archaeologists study us?
17/01/2016 - 17:40
Given that so much of our culture is now predominantly digital, then, how will it last through the centuries? How will all the information... →
How do you prepare for the isolation of space?
12/01/2016 - 18:56
“It’s really sensory deprivation,” says Pattyn. “You have no variation in the outer landscape but also in your social landscape – in winter... →
Altruism reduces stress
08/01/2016 - 14:59
Ansell and Co. gave participants a smartphone app that prompted them to record stressful experiences and small acts of kindness, like... →
Advance in astronomy 'can help find other worlds'
03/01/2016 - 16:31
Earth-sized world Since surface gravity depends on the star's mass and radius, the method should also help astronomers work out the masses... →
A blueprint of the emerging mind
30/12/2015 - 13:55
How do we make this astonishing journey? Until recently, neuroscientists were in the dark about this ‘first age of the brain’. But the... →

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