The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) is working to create eco-friendly robots, by incorporating biodegradable “smart materials” that will decompose when the machine’s “lifespan” is complete. Current robot build technology involves materials that are difficult to dispose of, incorporating primarily metal and plastic. Scientists hope that by using new materials, including from food waste,... 

Evidence that municipal authorities in cities as diverse as Cologne, Philadelphia, and Reykjavik covered up violent acts by jihadists may indicate that there is an international agreement between some nations to cover up such acts. Police in Cologne, along with the administration of Mayor Henriette Reker, covered up the fact that the mass rapes and sexual assaults committed against German women on... 

In the wake of a series of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Germany, right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders on Monday called for all Muslim male refugees to be locked up in asylum centers, saying women needed to be protected. Speaking in a new video for his Freedom Party (PVV), Wilders condemned the attacks in Cologne, Germany, in which hundreds of women were groped and robbed by a mob... 

After the incidents of sexual assault in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve committed by Muslim refugees against German women, feminist apologetics have acquired renewed vigor in the European debate. Pundits and politicians assure the public that refugee males now storming the gates of Europe from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia will be required to learn that Western women are... 

Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos accused Turkey on Monday of facilitating the smuggling of migrants from its territory to Europe, in an interview with a German newspaper. “I have serious concerns that Turkish human traffickers get support from authorities,” Pavlopoulos told Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The Greek leader said that port authorities in Turkey did not do enough to prevent migrants... 

Analysis of satellite data of the Antarctic ice sheet has revealed a canyon system that dwarfs the Grand Canyon. The Antarctic is home to the world’s largest canyon, according to a study of satellite data by scientists from Durham University in the UK. “Antarctic scientists have long recognized that because the way ice flows, the landscape beneath the ice sheet was subtly reflected in... 

The EU President’s confrontational approach to EU countries’ policies outside of bureaucratic protocol has alienated both leaders an the public, as Euroskeptic parties gain in the polls. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker claimed that the European Union’s currency, the euro, would make no sense without open borders provided for by the Schengen agreement. The statement... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policy has brought into question the German leader’s political future. What if Angela Merkel steps down? Experts weigh the pros and cons of the potential move. Angela Merkel’s “open-door” refugee policy has already prompted fierce debate among the Chancellor’s political opponents and ordinary Germans; the violent massive sex... 

Bavaria’s migration-skeptic Prime Minister Horst Seehofer said Saturday that he would file a lawsuit in Germany’s Constitutional Court if Chancellor Angela Merkel fails to restore contol over Germany’s borders. Authorities in the southern German state of Bavaria threatened in October to take the federal government to court if it did not manage to curb the record inflow of refugees into the... 

The proposal comes two weeks after hundreds of women were attacked by aggressive men of allegedly Arab and North African origin in a number of German cities. After the attacks on women in Cologne and a number of other German cities, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has called to consider the deployment of Bundeswehr forces within the country. “We will have to deal with the question... 

Austria is set to use its army to stop refugees intending to transit through Germany and not apply for asylum there, as hundreds are being rejected at the German border. More than 1,000 migrants with forged IDs are being turned around at the Austrian border each week. The new regulations issued by the Austrian Defense Ministry came into effect Saturday. Now migrants coming to Austria to travel through... 

The European Commission has launched a “rule-of-law” investigation into Poland’s new legislation concerning its Constitutional court and media. The probe could eventually lead to the suspension of the country’s voting rights within the European Union. On Wednesday, the Commission decided to carry out a preliminary assessment of the controversial laws recently adopted in Poland that, according... 

Russia has registered a new Ebola drug that appears to be more effective than all of the other medicines currently being used to treat the disease, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced during a meeting with the Cabinet. “We have registered a medicine for the Ebola fever that, after a series of tests, demonstrates high effectiveness. Its effectiveness is higher than that of those remedies that... 

More news is coming out of Germany about the New Year’s Eve sex assault wave committed by “Arab or North African” men, despite German media trying to censor the events. Die Welt reports that the “Elephant club“, a nightclub in the city of Bielefeld, was attacked by an organized mob of about 500 immigrant men. Nightclub bouncers phoned the police when the mob became aggressive and started... 

Swiss army chief André Blattmann warned, in a Swiss newspaper article on Sunday, the risks of social unrest in Europe are soaring. Recalling the experience of 1939/1945, Blattman fears the increasing aggression in public discourse is an explosively hazardous situation, and advises the Swiss people to arm themselves and warns that the basis for Swiss prosperity is “being called into question.” As...