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Not the robot in question. This one is actually less creepy. Photo: Zhan Min/VCG via Getty Images This Creepy Robot Learned to Talk Like a Human by Watching YouTube
Researchers say EMO is a step toward robots meant for caregiving, education, or companionship.
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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES Europa’s Ice Shell Is Thick as Hell. What That Means for Life on Jupiter’s Moon.
Europa may still have the right ingredients for life, but they’re locked behind an extremely thick, very cold door.
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Counter/Getty Images How Much Exercise You Actually Need to Live Longer, According to Science
There’s some great news for anyone out there hoping to reap maximum gains after putting in minimum effort.
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Nike What Do Nike’s New ‘Mind-Altering’ Shoes Actually Do?
Nike says its upcoming Mind 001 and Mind 002 shoes can influence how your brain feels and responds by stimulating the soles of your feet.
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Fortton/Getty Images Everything We Know About the Man Who Cut Off His Own Foot for Medical School
A 20-year-old man reportedly did something so extreme it feels hard to process even after you read it twice.
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ando2chill/Instagram Everything We Know About the Yosemite National Park Graffiti Incident
There are fewer things in life that piss me off more than this.
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Saulgranda/Getty Images Scientists Gave Fruit Flies Magic Mushrooms. Here’s What Happened.
The researchers primarily focused on the idea that psilocybin likely evolved to deter invertebrates that eat mushrooms.
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Laurence Dutton/Getty Images Scientist Loses Years of Work After Tweaking ChatGPT Settings
A German plant scientist says two years of academic work vanished in an instant after he clicked the wrong setting in ChatGPT.
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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES How Scientists Use Earthquake Sensors to Track Space Junk Crashing to Earth
Our atmosphere is loaded with space junk, and every once in a while, it comes plummeting down to Earth in a rain of fire.
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Yulia Naumenko/Getty Images 3 Signs You’re in a Dead Relationship and Should Probably Just End It
Wondering how to tell whether you’re in a dead relationship?
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Finemeit/Twitter This Guy Got So Angry at an AI Art Exhibit That He Ate It
The man argues that his mastication of the AI images was both a form of protest and performance art.
