Science

Usually, this would just be the stuff of Sci-Fi movies and a select few games, but this here mech is the real deal. Vitaly Bulgarov is a concept artist who has worked with the likes of Blizzard to produce things like StarCraft and now he’s helping to create a real, functional mech with Korea Future Technology.

The Octopod called “Casper” has been discovered recently and it appears that the species is at risk due to deep sea mining. It received its name because of its ghost like appearance, like other octopods “Casper” is squishy but it is also unique since it is colorless. The discovery, reported in the journal Current Biology, suggests deep-sea mining could threaten …

The Klingon newt, found in northeastern Thailand, has a burgundy body and black markings that make it easy to spot amid the greenery of the surrounding area. Tylototriton anguliceps’ distinctive skull shape is reminiscent of that of Lieutenant Worf and other Klingons on Star Trek. A new report published by World Wildlife Fund unveiled 163 new Mekong species to the …

Scientists have captured the first-ever footage of an extremely rare fish known as a ghost shark, a recent study in the journal Marine Biodiversity Records reports. It’s a species that split off from sharks and rays around 300 million years ago, existing as a chimera, or blend of the two. The ghost shark, as the video explains, doesn’t even have …

Scientist Oliver Bendel has warned an audience at the Second International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots (sadly that is a thing), that it’s because they’ll never tire. If issues of robot ethics aren’t addressed before these sentient Fleshlights hit the market, they could either screw us to the point of physical exhaustion, or be so much better at …

Astronomers studied the star, known as HIP68468, as part of a project to discover planets that orbit solar twins. An international team of researchers has discovered a planetary system with a host star similar to Earth’s sun, which could tell the history and connections between stars and their planets. The star, named HIP68468, is a twin star to the sun …

A pointy-nosed blue chimaera, also known as a “ghost shark,” is believed to have been filmed alive for the first time. Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute repeatedly captured footage of numerous species while on dives up to 6,700 feet (2,042 meters) below the sea off the coast of southern California, central California and the Hawaiian islands, in …

New study conducted by researchers at the University of York and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona reveals for the first time that Europe’s earliest humans did not use fire for cooking, but had a balanced diet of meat and plants – all eaten raw. Studying dental plaque from a 1.2 million year old hominin (early human species), recovered by the …

Researchers probing the deepest reaches of the Earth to find clues about the origins of life have found something unique: the world’s oldest water. The University of Toronto researchers found the primordial water at a depth of 2.4km in Kidd Creek Mine, which is located in Timmins, Ontario. University of Toronto’s Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar told the BBC it wasn’t …

Eriovixia gryffindori artfully mimics dried foliage to stay safe. Scientists from India have found a new spider species that looks an awful lot like the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter series, prompting them to name it Eriovixia gryffindori after the fictitious wizard Godric Gryffindor.

As NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover climbs the slopes of Mount Sharp, the layered mountain at the center of Gale crater, it is finding patterns of change in rock composition in the mountain’s higher, younger layers. The rover has also detected the chemical element boron for the first time on the surface of Mars. “No prior mission to Mars has found …