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A trainee psychiatrist and a film director found out that the humor in cartoon series The Simpsons can help people face various mental conditions more effectively. These include ailments such as depression, phobias, alcoholism, and a few others. The…
Gliese 581 is a red dwarf – smaller and colder than our Sun – which is ‘only’ just over 20 light years from here and scientists just found an Earth-like planet orbiting around it. It is 1.5 times the…
Now, you don’t have to drop your trousers to a select few to show how much of a nerd you are. Thanks to these geeky belt buckles, you can inform the whole world of…
Can the electromagnetic waves generated by wireless networks be harmful to certain people’s health? A woman from London, UK, seems to think so. Encouraged by dubious pseudo-scientific websites such as electrosensitivity.org.uk, she is convinced that her various symptoms –…
Blade Runner was mentioned on this site earlier – albeit for a different reason – but do you remember those flying vehicles in the movie? Thanks to Gress Aerospace, those futuristic cars should soon become rather…
First Law:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law:
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders…
For those who saw the 1959 movie Voyage To The Center Of The Earth, with the scene where the protagonists take a walk in a forest of 7-foot tall mushrooms, this will not come as a big surprise. However,…
Dogs can sniff someone’s “olfactive signature” and somehow smell that you’re coming home even before you’ve entered the door. They can also determine when you’re ill and know how to “treat their human” in such situations. Vince Rotello and…
It was already known that Chinese officials wanted every single event to be perfectly ordered and organized – but now, this includes also the weather! As the chances of showers during next year’s Olympic Games are about 50%, scientists…