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some nice retro-futurology :) according to the reddit thread, this is "from the children's encyclopedia series Our Wonder World, printed around 1918. Published by Geo. L. Shuman & Co."

A game built to help computers in solving satisfiability problems.  (in case the new version doesn't work, try the original one)

For those who still believe in Apple (or perhaps rather for those who don't?) :-)

Now I need to buy one of the these ....

Maybe they should innovate by hiring not only designers but also some linguists ...

Toward Autonomous Humanoids check out our new video with the iCub in the IM-CLeVeR project

Admit it ... You have fallen in love ....

you dont' know how often we had to shoot that scene :) but it is an adorable baby robot (if it works :))

Hey Guys, Is one of you has any idea about how it's coded? I mean, is it just a basic database of already-written answers or something more sophisticated? Anyway, have fun! Alex

Hi, thanks for your answer. I had a look to the different versions, that's pretty interesting to see how they have evolved over the years.

I was not at all impressed - stopped after a few questions since getting ridiculous answers or trials to change topic

An hypothesis for explaining missing shoreline traces of ancient water ocean on mars: Some 3.4 billion years ago, giant meteoroids slammed into a frigid ocean covering Mars's northern hemisphere. The impacts kicked up enormous waves that raced across the water and swamped the shoreline, research suggests. On the scale of planetary catastrophes, such tsunamis would have dwarfed most Earthly ones.

Cute info-graphics on different machine learning architectures

Quantum mechanics PSA

An excellent science coffee topic! This is a true breakthrough in pure mathematics with plentiful applications in the lesser sciences (such as theoretical physics). People tell me quantum gravity is already practically solved by this. Conway's powerful theory of Alternative Facts can render many difficult problems tractable. Here we demonstrate the power of AF to prove the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics. We further suggest applications of AF to other challenging unsolved problems such as the zero-equals-one conjecture (which is also true) and the side-counting problem of the circle.

I'm not sure what's new here; space and fashion collide violently every day at the ACT...

All Prior Art is a project attempting to algorithmically create and publicly publish all possible new prior art, thereby making the published concepts not patent-able. The concept is to democratize ideas, provide an impetus for change in the antiquated patent system, and to preempt patent trolls. The system works by pulling text from the entire database of US issued and published (un-approved) patents and creating prior art from the patent language. While most inventions generated will be nonsensical, the cost to computationally create and publish millions of ideas is nearly zero - which allows for a higher probability of possible valid prior art.

proper engineering. do this YouTube sensation and inventor Colin Furze is used to making insane things like retractable wolverine claws, working versions of the hidden blade and rope launcher featured in Assassin's Creed games, and even a homemade Iron Man suit. But this time he decided to do something even crazier and build a hoverbike, and surprisingly, he succeeded and didn't die in the process.

I'm always amazed when that guy doesn't die

An incresingly popular scientific enome re-writting tool. Might prevent future generations from being born with some types of disorders or disabilities! Also, for fun, can be looked at one step closer to having a real wolverine..

"Chinese team uses CRISPR to genetically modify human embryo" http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-04-chinese-team-crispr-genetically-human.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-nwletter

Once more, science at the service of humankind...

What stroke me especially was the shape of the Marianas Trench (much wider than deep) [edit] This reminds me I used to have a printout of a similar, but more space-related, comic http://xkcd.com/482/ hanging on the wall next to my desk in estec... good ol' times...

and in case you missed it, check also the excellent Money infographic that guy created last year: http://xkcd.com/980/huge/

part of the bbc's citizen sciene thingy 'so you want to be a scientist. it's like a game show for science experiments if you're not familiar. the bookmark will take you to the online participation part of one of the experiments selected. here's the main page. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/sywtbas/ "This experiment is being run by citizen scientist Izzy Thomlinson for BBC Radio 4's So You Want To Be A Scientist?. It aims to find out what you think about unpleasant sounds. Please read the following statement and click Take Part Now! if you agree to participate."

archaeology for a bit of a change of pace. "The discovery is important because it may help reveal the ethnic and cultural origins of some of history's first 'barbarians' - mountain tribes which had, in previous millennia, preyed on the world's first great civilizations, the cultures of early Mesopotamia in what is now Iraq."

The scale of Universe Interactive,