Gasoline? These don’t need no stinkin’ gasoline! It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie. A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, […]

This technology stuff is starting to get out of hand. Whatever they can use on the bad guys they can use on the rest of us and they will, eventually. Miniature robots could be good spies, but researchers now are experimenting with insect cyborgs or “cybugs” that could work even better. Scientists can already control […]

71 year old paperboy decides it’s time to hang up his handlebar bags. North Carolina’s longest-running paperboy retired on Sunday. Billy Joe Smith, 71, got up for work at 2:30 a.m. seven days a week for 41 years, reported WXII-TV in Winston-Salem. Smith, who lives in East Bend, N.C., got up Sunday morning and delivered […]

Sh*t! Son of a B%$ch! Muthafruker! G*d da*n it! OK I feel better now. Scientists have discovered that uttering swear words can help to lessen the feeling of physical pain. The study by researchers at Keele University found that volunteers were able to withstand pain for longer when they swore compared to when they used […]