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The engineers at the Complutense University of Madrid has developed the concept of a robot that can dig tunnels for laying gas and water pipes and various cables. Each time dig trenches for pipes and wires — is quite tedious and long, so the developers decided to shift these tasks to robots, on a prototype…

Photo: Joel Kramer via Flickr Bad news if you were hoping to beat a drug test by blaming it on your breakfast. A British company called FDL, a “global supplier of speciality ingredients,” is claiming to have developed a new type of poppy seed with reduced levels of morphine that won’t produce a false positive…

All Images: Chris Davidson Hutchinson, Kansas isn’t the kind of place you’d wind up if you weren’t looking to. The placid prairie town sits a solid hour’s drive south of I-70, the interstate that most travelers use to blow across 425 miles of Kansas cornfield and cattle pasture as quickly as possible. But as soon…

Photo: Getty Gmail is free, in part because Google has always scanned the contents of users’ inboxes in order to serve targeted ads. It’s a sleazy business model, but Google certainly isn’t alone: Most other free email services (and, hi, social media platforms) do the same thing. But Google has finally decided to end the…

Image: SpaceX via Flickr Over the last few months, SpaceX has out-SpaceX-ed itself in the best way possible: it’s launched an already used rocket into orbit (and landed it), ferried up a spy satellite, and even flown a recycled Dragon spacecraft. But this weekend, the aerospace company will tackle a new challenge: two launches within…

Image: OET/NautilusLive Hey, sailors! Welcome back to Animals Are Good: Cephalopod Week edition. Cephalopods, in case you’re wondering, are a class of mollusks to which octopus, squid, and cuttlefish belong. As the week comes to a close, we’d like to give a much-deserved shoutout to one of the cutest tentacle-babies out there: the dumbo octopus…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (Image: AP) Claiming that evolution is “debatable, controversial, and too complicated for students,” Turkey’s board of education has decided to stop teaching Darwinian natural selection in its schools. The move has infuriated the country’s secular opposition, but it could embolden other countries to do the same. The Guardian reports that…

Image: Getty Yahoo is shutting down an app created by teenager. Four years ago, said teenager sold the app to the struggling internet company for a reported $30 million. It’s one of many casualties from Verizon’s recent acquisition of the big purple Dot Com giant, but it’s especially interesting since Yahoo turned so many heads…

Here’s and old guy who fucks (Image: Nate “Igor” Smith/Wikimedia Commons) Fucking is good. What else can you say? We’re a species that gets to actually enjoy sexual activity. It makes babies. When consenting adults do sex-making, it is good. A new study suggests that when old people do sex, it is also good. Maybe…

ROME – The Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi appears to be very charmed to Melania Trump, the wife of the American president. The billionaire praised Friday during an interview, the “beauty, style and charm” of the first lady. Photo: EPA The eighty-Berlusconi runs this week back in full campaign for his party Forza Italia.…