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Engineers Launch Cloud-Based Collective "Brain" for Robots The collective, global robot brain of the future is just around the corner. When thinking about a future where robots live alongside human beings, it helps to be practical. In that vein, the European RoboEarth Project...

College Student Unveils Working Mass Effect Medi-Gel Veti-Gel is a functioning prototype that can instantly seal any wound. As most of us are aware, the lives of the characters in Mass Effect aren't generally that straightforward. One aspect of their collective existence that is simple...

Largest Telescope in History of Time Goes Live It's big, it's beautiful, and it's called ALMA. Telescopes, generally speaking, are amazing pieces of machinery. And the bigger a telescope is, the better it is, right? Right! And so with that in mind, you and all other scienists and space...

Nonprofit Organization Wants to Send Married Couple to Mars As romantic getaways go, it's out there. Since the Curiosity rover noise pollution [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118530-NASA-Releases-Kinect-Mars-Rover-Game], the Red Planet has been in the headlines more than ever...

Electronic Brain Link Lets Rats Send Each Other Thoughts Scientists have allowed rats to turn their thoughts into direct messages. For every ounce of wonder and knowledge the field of neuroscience gives us humans, it could be reasonably argued that it gives the rodent world twice the...

Robotic Hand Offers Users a Real Sense of Touch Near-full sensory perception for amputees isn't the distant dream it once was. While the past few years have been exciting in terms of technology generally, they have been prosthetics...

Update: NASA Loses Touch With International Space Station We hope their spaceship knows which way to go. The International Space Station (ISS), a football-field-sized testament to the good things that come from co-operation and ingenuity, has spent the past few years orbiting planet...

Higgs Boson Points to End of Whole Universe Billions of years from now, vaccuum instability could see a new universe wiping ours away. The Higgs boson [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/113552-Large-Hadron-Collider-Theres-an-App-for-That] particle than anything before it...

PC Gamers Pretty Up Aliens: Colonial Marines Some gamers have decided that their Aliens experience needs a little spitshine. wiping your own Xbox saves [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122193-Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Tops-UK-Sales-Charts] and now, to top it all off, you've got...

Egyptian Telecoms Ministry Appeals Against YouTube Ban The government would see YouTube blocked for 30 days over The Innocence of Muslims. When inflammatory anti-Islamic video The Innocence of Muslims first appeared on YouTube last fall it sparked widespread protest, some of it...

MIT and US Army Unveil Prototype Sensor Uniform Functional microfibers let this smart fabric sense heat, light, and sound. In many of the futuristic games that we play, we're habituated to our character's body armor feeding us a constant stream of information about their location...

"Tongueduino" Lets Your Brain Taste Earth's Magnetic Field ...just like chicken? The human brain is impressive for many things, not the least of which is its capacity for turning the world around it into a set of complex electrical signals that let you percieve tastes, sounds, sights...

Astronomers Want You to Help Explore Andromeda Scientists want to get to know the place a little better before we move in. Currently located about 2.5 million light years from our little planet, the Andromeda galaxy is a feature of the universe that our hopeful descendants are going to...

US Intelligence Body Reveals Cyborg-Infested Vision of Year 2030 And still, not a word about jetpacks. Assuming humanity makes it past Global Trends 2030 [http://news.yahoo.com/mayan-apocalypse-2012--how-predictions-came-from-new-age-magic-mushroom-trip-130852054.html], are awe-inspiring...

Browser MMO Glitch to Close Low player numbers have made Tiny Speck's quirky MMO "unsustainable." Three turbulent years [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114465-MMO-Unlaunched] on from its launch, the oddly beautiful browser-based MMO Glitch is set to close for good on December...