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Jason Krugman, Stella Kim and Ben Chao have created a set of huge testicles, hung from the ceiling, that react to human touch. The Teste Touch, as it is called, has a built-in temperature sensor that responds to heat as real testicles do. When it comes in contact with something cold the “balls” shrink [...]

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70,000 years ago humans came close to extinction as a result of climate change (drought) as scientists speculate. This was revealed from a genetic survey which showed that we were down to just 2,000 people.
Paleontology Professor Meave Leakey from Stony Brook University said:

Who would have thought that as recently as 70,000 years ago, extremes [...]

Microsoft Research Center started a very promising project, about a year ago. The project name is Asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access), and it is a HIP (Human Interactive Proof), a way to prove that you are a human and not a bot, something like CAPTCHA)

As we can read in the project’s page

Today, [...]

Carnegie Mellon University is running a project for the design of robotic snakes.
These are robots that can imitate a snakes movements and has the ability to reach in places where a human as well as other robotic systems cannot. Its quite impressive to consider that these are quite adaptable to their environment.
Till now they have [...]

Even though we are far from creating the first human torch, Matian Shaman made the first step by creating a flaming glove! It probably does not have any real use but you will definitely steal the show in parties. From next year this will be available in all Halloween shops See the video

The zebrafish is genetically similar with humans and its has already stated to be used for studies of the human biology and disease prevention. Scientists at the Children’s Hospital in Boston in their need to see the internal structure of the body, with out the need for equipment, converted the fish DNA to become transparent. [...]