The "Todai Robot Project" is an effort from computer scientists at Fujitsu Labs that involves programming a robot to pass the University of Tokyo's very tough entrance exam.
The institution is considered one of Asia's best. So far, the AI has only managed to score 40% from taking science and math papers. The researchers are hoping to see the robot get "high marks" by 2016,
and then get full-on acceptance into the university by 2021.
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Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese architecture and engineering firm, has proposed to build a "Luna Ring", which consists of placing solar panels 6,800 miles long by 12 miles wide on the moon's surface.
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This is it Trekkies, the final frontier of fandom. 'Eau My', a punny reference to Tekei's famous catchphrase is a cologne spray that will unleash your inner Hikaru Sulu. Pre-order yours on now online for $39.99,
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Would you be willing to pay $14 million just to own a translation of the
Biblical psalms? If you answered yes, too bad because someone has
already beat you to it.
Shown above is "The Bay Psalm Book", which was recently sold at a record-breaking $14.165 million during a one-lot auction by Sotheby's.
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Critics have said that this Al Wakrah Stadium—designed with AECOM for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar—looks like a giant vagina. Obviously, the building's architect, Zaha Hadid disagrees. "It's really embarrassing that they come up with nonsense like this," she told TIME. "What are they saying? Everything with a hole in it is a vagina? That's ridiculous."
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So apparently women are growing out their pubic hair. One of the reasons cited was because maybe men are changing their preferences when it comes to crotch grooming. That, or they simply don't have time to head to a waxing salon.
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Be warned, as this post might put you of cheese for life. Microbiologist Christina Agapakis and artist Sissel Tolaas have managed to ferment cheese using microbes that grow on human skin.
To understand how this works, you have to know how cheese gets made. Basically, you need milk, Lactobacillus bacteria (to make it go bad) and yeast (to age the resulting clumps and give it a particular taste). As it turns out, our own bodies also produce this bacteria and yeast.
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This image is that of a bucardo, a Pyrenean sub-species of mountain goat that went extinct back in 2000. And now, a team of Spanish scientists are attempting to clone it back to life.
The cells had belonged to the last living bucardo named Celia who was killed by a falling tree. The cells were then frozen in liquid nitrogen 14 years ago. If Celia's cells are in good shape, a team of scientists will attempt to make embryo Celia clones and implant them in female goats so that new bucardos can be born into this world.
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Whatever the fuck this is, you don't want to be swimming along with it. Scientists have identified a mysterious animal captured in the arctic waters of Canada's Hudson Strait region.
At first, they thought it was a goblin shark. (Yes those things exists.) But it wasn't. They claim it's a Rhinochimaeridae, or otherwise known as a long nosed chimaera. Or in other words "something you don't want getting cozy with you".
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This picture you're looking at is a close-up of an ocean quahog. In 2006, it was scooped from the bottom of the North Atlantic near Iceland. The researchers who discovered it decided that the best place to stash the specimen was inside a freezer. As expected, the creature did not survive.
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