Samsung creates CEO-led robotics unit to accelerate commercialisation

Every Marvel fan remembers where they were when the studio announced the cast of Avengers: Doomsday in a slow, arduous video where names were shown on the backs of chairs over the course of almost six hours. There were cast members from Thunderbolts, The Fantastic Four, and Black Panther, but the most exciting additions were…

Quote of the Day: Marie Curie, the trailblazing physicist and chemist, remains one of the most admired figures in the history of science. She was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different fields, physics and chemistry, and her discoveries in radioactivity transformed medicine and research. Her career was marked not only by…

A rare type of meteorite known as a CO chondrite was likely the object that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and triggered the extinction of about 75 percent of all species, including every non-avian dinosaur. Researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Paris, Brussels, and Vienna reached that conclusion by analyzing nickel…

A common belief that baby rattlesnakes are more dangerous than adults has been overturned by a new study from Loma Linda University. After reviewing the history and spread of the myth, researchers concluded that bites from adult rattlesnakes are generally more dangerous because adults carry and inject much larger amounts of venom. The study also…

It’s indisputable that H.P. Lovecraft is one of the crucial architects of modern-day horror, inspiring fiction across multiple mediums such as H.R. Giger’s work on Alien and the endlessly acclaimed video game Bloodborne. One of the things that makes his writing stand out from other classical horror authors is the terrifyingly thin relationship his characters…

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