Fido vs. Spot: Watch An IRL Dog Try To Pick A Fight With A Robo Dog
Welcome to the future.(Photo : Steve Jurvetson | Flickr) We've come a long way since Sega's Poo-Chi robotic toy dog of the early aughts. Case in point? A video that can only be described as "dog-eat-robo-dog." Titled "Fido vs. Spot," the YouTube video features a (very animal-friendly, very safe) brawl between what appears to be a tiny terrier and a quadruped droid (for viewers at home: Spot is the AI robot, and Fido is, well, Fido — just kidding, his name is Alex). According to the vid descrip..>> view originalSpaceX pushes Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral to Friday
SpaceX is now targeting Friday, March 4 for a Falcon 9 launch with the SES-9 satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Video by Emre Kelly. WochitA Falcon 9 rocket on the pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016.(Photo: SpaceX)SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket continues to sit on a pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after the company scrubbed its fourth launch attempt on Tuesday.SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that upper-level winds were to blame, maki..>> view originalExtreme Spaceflight: The History of Yearlong Space Missions
An astronaut and a cosmonaut are wrapping up a nearly yearlong mission on the International Space Station (ISS) today (March 1), the longest in the 16 years since humans began continuously occupying the orbiting outpost. But Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko's 340 days in space place only fifth on the list of the longest spaceflights of all time, coming in behind four cosmonauts' previous missions to the former Russian space station Mir. Those missions each lasted more than a full year...>> view originalStudy suggests a new trick for finding alien civilizations
We look for alien worlds by tracking planets as they cross their suns. Maybe aliens do the same thing. (AP/NASA) The hunt for extraterrestrial life — of any kind, including lowly, long-dead microbes — is lofty enough. But the hunt for intelligent civilizations that could be looking for us in return? It's even more of a long shot. In a new paper published in the journal Astrobiology, researchers present one possible strategy for finding these theoretical beings: Assume that they're searching..>> view originalEinstein's Struggles with Gravitational Waves
Unless you have been living under a rock, by now you have heard that gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein, have been discovered. These are two monumental achievements that ought to be lauded. Einstein for seeing the ramification of the theory of general relativity that he worked so hard to accomplish, and to the LIGO team for steadfastly pursuing the goal to measure the ripples in spacetime directly, and with that create a new type of telescope that opens up a portal, as it were, t..>> view originalIn emergencies, people place too much trust in robots
Imagine that you're in an unfamiliar building, participating in a research experiment. A robot escorts you from room to room to complete a survey about robots and then read an unrelated magazine article. The robot that you are following around is a bit unreliable, though. It guides you to the wrong room a few times and has broken down before. (The robot is secretly being controlled by one of the experimenters.)Suddenly, the fire alarms go off and smoke fills the hallway. The robot, with the wor..>> view originalOldest Nervous System Found in 520-Million-Year-Old Fossil
Fossils of an ancient creature resembling a shrimp with an armored head contain the oldest and best-preserved nervous system ever found, which could help scientists decipher the evolution of nervous systems in animals alive today, according to a new study. The remarkable remains belonged to Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis, a crustaceanlike creature that lived 520 million years ago in what is now South China. The fossils revealed a long "ropelike" central nerve cord that extended throughout the bod..>> view originalDusty dinosaur bone sheds new light on perplexing giant predators
After discovering a discarded dinosaur bone in the dusty drawer of an Italian museum, researchers have published new insights into the predatory – yet surprisingly endearing – Abelisaur.The study, published Monday in the journal Peer J, also wades into the murky waters of Stromer’s Riddle, formulated in the 1930s by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer, which asks how so many different top dinosaur predators could have coexisted.The work also highlights one of the understated services provided b..>> view originalMexico's monarch butterfly population is rebounding. What happened?
Millions of monarch butterflies settled in Mexico for the winter this year. Forming a 10-acre carpet of black-and-orange striped winged insects in their wintering grounds, this year's migration represents a significant uptick in numbers for the majestic butterflies.Because the monarch butterflies cluster on trees by the thousand, lepidopterists keep count of the insects by the area they cover. This winter saw a the butterflies blanket an area more than 3.5 times greater than the previous season..>> view original
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