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Images of the Terminator 2's T1000 flash before your mind's eye after watching this incredible video by Jing Liu of the Tsinghua University and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Thanks to this self powered liquid motor, the future of shape shifting robots just came a step closer. The metal alloy is mix of indium, liquid gallium, a little tin, and a flake of aluminium. It can propel itself forwards, and navigate tight spaces and bends without the need for an external power source. Besides it being a step towards future T1000's (however scary that notion might be if you've ever seen the Terminator 2, and if you haven't: go watch it!), this metal alloy has other potential usages. When held in place it can be used as a pump to push liquid through cooling devices, or even through blood vessels. source: http://www.sciencedump.com/content/future-shape-shifting-robots-closer-you-think

Last week, Mercedes Benz has unvieled its first futuristic, driverless concept car in San Francisco. The car named as F015 Luxury in Motion was first revealed to the public at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas last September. The car since has received a lots of attention from all around the world. Reddit user 'GoogleplexStar' posting the pic above, commenting, "This driverless Mercedes is cruising around San Francisco, blowing everyone's minds.". "It needed a break from Sunnyvale," the automaker wrote on Twitter, sharing photos of what looks like a roadster from Blade Runner. The F015 is being called as “Virtual Living Room” with seating for up to 4 people with two sets of couches facing each other. This is best for after a hard day work from office to home. And, because its Mercedes, it comes trimmed in walnut veneer, nappa leather, polished aluminium and glass, with soft blue LED lighting,” says Jason Fell at Entrepreneur. The s...

Lithium-ion  batteries  have taken us a long way in phones, tablets, and even cars over the years, but it’s not a perfect technology — battery capacity holds us back. Scientists have been on the lookout for an alternative, but nothing has quite panned out yet. There’s been considerable interest around lithium-sulfur batteries in the last few years, and a breakthrough experiment from the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside could make these batteries the next big thing. All it takes is a little glass. Traditional lithium-ion batteries have found their way into virtually all types of mobile technology, because they have significant energy density and relatively long life. You can charge a  li-ion cell  a few hundred times before it starts to fail, and there’s no memory effects as with older nickel cadmium and nickel-metal hydride rechargeables. This is where lithium-sulfur still falls short, but not because of the memory effect...

For the first time, scientists have shown that it’s possible for two people of the same sex to create a baby, without the need for outside egg or sperm donation. The most obvious benefits would be for homosexual couples who want to have a child together, but the method could also help couples who have been affected by infertility.  The team, from Cambridge University in the UK and Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, built on previous work where baby mice were successfully raised from mouse skin cells that had been converted into what’s known as  primordial germ cells  - the precursors of egg and sperm cells. It was a real struggle to replicate the process using human biological matter, but now they’ve finally managed to create new human primordial germ cells using skin cells from five human donors and stem cell lines from five human embryos. “We have succeeded in the first and most important step of this process, which is to show we can make these very early h...