Weird Science

Earth's orbit continues to fill up with space debris, and while we haven't seen any real life recreations of Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity...

In the future there will likely be fleets of self-driving cars, keeping roadways safe and free of human error. And if the...

In the Star Trek universe, the Borg is a group of alien cyborgs linked together via the collective hive mind, or "the Hive." They...

Last fall, it was exciting to watch Softbank's Pepper robot learn how to play with a ball-and-cup toy. And, well, Pepper's come quite...

Perhaps the most fun thing about the 3D printer technology that's gaining increasing steam is how we have yet to discover all the...

The Henn na Hotel (or "Weird Hotel" in English) is one of Japan's newest attractions, having just thrown open its doors today for all...

Space flight is a difficult business. On the one hand, a lot of tools and resources are needed for a successful mission that have to...

The day has finally come. August 21st, 2017, the great American total solar eclipse. Millions across the country are flocking to bear...

Of all the imminent dangers around the world right now, one slightly less imminent danger that tends to get forgotten is the giant...

As drones become more prominent outside the military, we're starting to see people get more creative with things they should and...

Would you like an adorable pet robot that you can program yourself to help you perform a variety of household activities? Before you...

As anyone who's heard the dreaded noise of a fire truck siren while stuck in a wall of slow-moving traffic will tell you, other cars...

Let's face it: we're all still waiting for our jetpacks. For everyone who isn't instead obsessed with Back to the Future hoverboards,...

For anyone who's grown up reading the adventures of Spider-Man in the comics--particularly anything from the Sixties, when he...

This isn't a movie. This isn't a joke. MegaBots, an American company, challenged the Japanese company Suidobashi to a giant robot...

Grab your tinfoil hats, folks, because we’re discussing NASA secrets. No, not greys and reptilians, we’re talking about secret...

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?If so, you might have been reading the International Journal of Molecular...

There are a lot of people out there trying to make robots more human-like, but one group of researchers has created a robot that...

Most of us are probably familiar with that scene from Minority Report where Tom Cruise cycles through a bunch of floating screens...

Some 500 years ago, a man without much to his name, now known only as SK2, lived in Dublin. His skeleton was found along with the...