NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity The NASA Curiosity rover that was thought to bring only cameras, sensors, and scientific equipment when it traveled to Mars in August 2012 may have brought along dozens of species of bacteria that originated on Earth, according to a new study. A study conducted by the American Society for Microbiology and published in the Nature science journal revealed that 377 strains... 

They say even under perfect conditions, it couldn’t be possible, yet somehow, paleontologists have unearthed a preserved dinosaur foot deep in the heart of the Gobi Desert in Southern Mongolia. “I wouldn’t believe any reports if I hadn’t been there,” said paleontologist Dr. Greg Hudkins, who was one of several experts sent on the dig. “But I saw it, and I felt it. I’ve analyzed it. That... 

Scientists in Argentina say they have found the remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever to have walked the planet. By analyzing the fossils, they say it could have been 40 meters in length and weighed 77 tons – as much as 14 elephants. The discovery was made by a local farm worker in Patagonia. The fossils were then excavated by a team of paleontologists from the Museum of Paleontology... 

Not too long ago screen resolution was strictly associated and linked to physical screen size. The bigger the screen was, a bigger resolution it was able to handle. Even to this day screen resolution is still tightly locked to screen size when it comes to computer monitors. 18.5 inch monitors rarely exceed a 1366×768 resolutions and 19.5 inch monitors rarely exceed 1600×900. If you want... 

RoboThespian, a life-sized, interactive robot, which was created to move, speak, communicate, interact, and entertain, performs at Artplay Moscow exhibition center in Moscow, on May 14, 2014. The Russian capital is hosting a unique event, dubbed ‘Ball of Robots,’ where automatons are exhibited entertaining attendees. More than 20 robots from Canada, United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, Singapore,... 

Minnesota has become the first US state to sign off on a bill mandating that smartphones be equipped with anti-theft software. “Any new smart phone manufactured on or after July 1, 2015, sold or purchased in Minnesota must be equipped with preloaded antitheft functionality or be capable of downloading that functionality,” read the bill that was signed into law by Gov. Mark Dayton on Wednesday. The... 

A “near-natural” prosthetic arm, that took eight years to develop and test, has been approved for mass production by the US Food and Drug Administration. The DEKA Arm System has been affectionately dubbed “The Luke,” after Star Wars’ Luke Skywalker who received a robotic replacement for the hand he lost in a fight with Darth Vader in the 1980 film “The Empire Strikes Back.” One of the... 

Stephen Hawking has shocked physicists by admitting ‘there are no black holes’. In a paper published online, Professor Hawking instead argues there are ‘grey holes’. ‘The absence of event horizons means that there are no black holes – in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity,’ he says in the paper, called Information Preservation... 

An upcoming expert-level meeting of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva is to host a debate on killer robots. The discussion is to be held between Prof. Noel Sharkey, co-founder of the Campaign Against Killer Robots and chairman of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and Prof. Ronald Arkin from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a public research university... 

Chinese researchers at the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory of Southwest Jiaotong University claim their fast transportation concept based on magnetic levitation (Maglev) technology could potentially be three times faster than an airplane. Maglev technology was first proposed in the mid-20th century. Nowadays, the Shanghai Maglev Train can reach speeds of over 430 kilometers (260 miles) per hour... 

Russia has drafted a program for colonization of the moon, and plans to send the first expeditions to build a permanent lunar base in 2030, the Russian Izvestia daily said Thursday, citing an official document. “The moon is a space object for the future exploration by terrestrial civilization, and a geopolitical competition for the Moon’s natural resources may begin in the 21st century,” said... 

Stephen Hawking has warned that artificial intelligence has the potential to be the downfall of mankind. ‘Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history,’ he said writing in the Independent. ‘Unfortunately, it might also be the last’. A sinister threat is brewing deep inside the technology laboratories of Silicon Valley. Artificial Intelligence, disguised... 

More than a decade after a Japanese soy sauce manufacturer said it had discovered a molecule in its sauce that could be used to fight HIV, the findings have been confirmed by university scientists. According to a team of virologists at the University of Missouri, a flavor-enhancing molecule found in soy sauce – called EFdA – is up to 70 times more powerful than typical drugs like Tenofovir, which... 

Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, from the Galileo and Voyager space missions show a bright flat surface. Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system may possess ice and liquid oceans which scientists say are stacked up like a multi-layered club sandwich and may contain life. Scientists from a NASA-funded research team performed a computer modeling of Ganymede’s oceans, taking into account... 

706 people continue fighting for four places in the Mars colonization program Mars One, a participant of the project, resident of Los Angeles, Sue Ann Pien said on Friday. More than 202 thousand people filed applications for participation in the first stage of the selection program, which ended in September, 2013. The first six groups of Martian colonists – consisting of four people each –...