futurist-foresight: Modeling future asteroid impacts based on Chelyabinsk. for-all-mankind: txchnologist: On Feb. 15, 2013, an asteroid estimated to be the size of a six-story building shot through Earth’s atmosphere at around 43,200 miles per hour. Dragging through...

joshbyard: Monkey Controls Another Chemically Paralyzed Monkey’s Movements with His Brain The research team developed and tested a prosthesis that connects two subjects (monkeys) by enabling one subject to send its recorded neural activity to control limb movements in...

popmech: A half-century ago, movie computers were logical monoliths ready to steal our jobs or rogue machines that took it upon themselves to wipe out the scourge of humanity. Now they’re falling in love with us. From Hal 9000 to Her: How Movies See...

futurescope: popmech: Termite construction is yet another way that insect societies are greater than the sum of their parts. And their building talent caught the attention of builders of tiny robots, who see industrious termites as an example of how many teensy...

Incredibly realistic animation of an eyeball. Love it! Here’s an article about it: http://www.redsharknews.com/post/item/1458-this-is-how-you-animate-an-eyeball From the article: The human eye is perhaps the most complicated-looking of all our body parts....