Boston Dynamics are behind some of the most interesting robot videos we’ve seen on the Internet, from Big Dog tossing cinder blocks around to, more recently, the reveal of their sharp yellow SpotMini.
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Engineers Developing “Self-Eating” Rockets That Don’t Leave A Mess
You probably can’t tell from all the way down here, but Earth is developing a pretty big space debris problem. In fact, Ziggy tells me that, right now, there are at least 17,852 man-made objects floating around up there, and those are just the ones we can track. Start counting the smaller pieces of debris …
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The Curse of Uluru: Another Tourist Learns the Hard Way
I can’t just ignore a story about Ayers Rock, otherwise known as Uluru, the cursed monolith of Australia’s Northern Territory. It even made it onto my list of infamous haunted objects back in 2014. This year, Uluru has claimed a new victim: Another tourist who took it upon himself to borrow a small rock from …
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If Aliens Are Out There, Maybe They Should Run
Where are all the aliens? asks Russian theoretical physicist Alexander Berezin in his new paper, titled “‘First in, last out’ solution to the Fermi Paradox.” It’s a question we’ve long pondered, and perhaps one of the greatest — in a universe so vast, and with so many seemingly habitable planets, why have we yet to …
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Another Loch Ness Monster Sighting: Is June the Month of Nessie?
Well, we’ve somehow made it to June, and that means those Loch Ness researchers are getting ready to head out and deep dive for Nessie DNA. Will they find any? Maybe!
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Scientists Set Sights On Nessie Once Again
Loch Ness is nearly 23 miles long and two miles wide, with depths of over 745 feet. And in those mysterious Scottish waters, many believe a monster lurks below. The Loch Ness Monster.
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Calling All Time Travelers: Stephen Hawking’s Memorial Service Welcomes Chrononauts
It’s an established fact that time travelers are kind of rude. They’re always leaving their stuff lying around, or teasing everyone with vague information about the future. In 2009, they didn’t even bother to visit Stephen Hawking, after he went and invited them all to his birthday party. Terrible.