Robots Could Reduce Animal Tests
Robots Could Reduce Animal Tests
US scientists are taking the first step towards testing potentially hazardous chemicals on cells grown in a laboratory, without using live animals. High speed robots would make testing faster, cheaper, and more effective, while leaving animals unharmed. picked by mahler87 6 months ago
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 Ten (10) High Technology Robots That May Change The World
Ten (10) High Technology Robots That May Change The World
Robots have long been the fascination of people throughout the world. Movies have stretched the imagination and science and technology have made some robots a reality. Following are ten high technology robots that may change the world. picked by prinks 1 year ago
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 Testing may kill animals needlessly
Testing may kill animals needlessly
Each year, American doctors inject more than 3 million doses of Botox to temporarily smooth their patients' wrinkles and frown lines. But before each batch is shipped, the manufacturer puts it through one of the oldest and most controversial animal tests available. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago
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 Real-life Transformers: Shape-changing robots could help save lives
Real-life Transformers: Shape-changing robots could help save lives
British scientists will today take the first steps in an astonishing project to create the first real-life Transformers - the science fiction robots which can change shape at will. The £4.6million experiment will attempt to build swarms of tiny robots, each the size of a sugar cube, that move around on their own and connect together to form larger, intelligent machines. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago
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 The cruelty behind animal fur coats
The cruelty behind animal fur coats
Definitely not for the faint-hearted, this video is a sad reality. It shows how skin is removed from animals while still breathing, just to end up as the fur coat in your mom's closet. (Contains strong gory scenes and acts of brutality, you have been warned) picked by Leorgathar 12 months ago
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 PETA's Dirty Secret
PETA's Dirty Secret
While loudly complaining about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, the group has its own dirty little secret.

PETA kills animals. By the thousands.

(I'm taking this with a grain of salt. I'm not too sure it's true.) picked by direwookiee 7 months ago
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 Animal Cams
Animal Cams
Smithsonian National Zoo: Animal Cams

Take a virtual field trip to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park where you can see many animal exhibits streamed live through web cams. In addition to viewing the web cams, you'll find Fact Sheets and Photo Galleries that you can explore to learn more about the animals featured on these web cams. picked by bingo 2 weeks ago
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 Should Animals Be Doing More For The Animal Rights Movement?
Should Animals Be Doing More For The Animal Rights Movement?
Panelists discuss whether animals should play a more active role in the fight for their rights by participating in marches or organizing boycotts. picked by tubs 7 months ago
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 Crazy Scientist’s Corner: Animals Used As Drugs
Crazy Scientist’s Corner: Animals Used As Drugs
Many of us know that many plants are used to alter brain function, changing for a brief amount of time perception, mood, consciousness and behavior. Scientists extended this research of science to animals and, even though it’s still at the beginning, they came up with some interesting finds. Early scientists and alchemists experimented with all kinds of animals. picked by maxy 10 months ago
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 Why Some Animals Eat Their Offspring
Why Some Animals Eat Their Offspring
Eating your offspring may sound unthinkable, but animals from fish to birds are known to do it. Scientists have been unsure why such a behavior would have evolved, but a new study sheds light on the factors that may drive some parents to eat their young. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago
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 200 Animals Rescued From Home
200 Animals Rescued From Home
An animal protection group on Friday rescued more than 200 animals, including 26 hissing cockroaches and two bearded dragons, from an eastern Texas home. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago
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 Illinois Woman Charged With Keeping Hundreds of Dead, Abused Animals on Property
Illinois Woman Charged With Keeping Hundreds of Dead, Abused Animals on Property
A Lee County woman pleaded not guilty to 10 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty and not caring for her pets, four days after authorities found more than 200 dead animals scattered on her property, stuffed in the refrigerator, strewn across floors and packed into barrels. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago
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 Obese Animals
Obese Animals
Slideshow of morbidly obese animals. The question is, should the owners face charges of animal cruelty? picked by doggylives 2 months ago
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 Animal CSI
Animal CSI
Whether it's testing a dog's saliva to see if it mauled a cat or catching a murderer who stepped in pet poo, law enforcement officials are seeing the benefit in applying forensic methods to cases involving animals. picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago
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 Robots that are "self-aware" (video)
Robots that are "self-aware" (video)
Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. At the root of this uncanny demo is a deep inquiry into the nature of how humans and living beings learn and evolve, and how we might harness these processes to make things that learn and evolve. picked by fogowar 10 months ago
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 Key Found to Making Robots Human-Friendly
Key Found to Making Robots Human-Friendly
Humans revel in touch. Touch-spoiled babies grow up healthier; lovers can't keep their hands off each other; and people who master the subtle touch are perceived as friendlier; and THAT could also be key to making robots accepted by humans as social peers, scientists say. (Is it me, or does that demonstrative pic just look 'wrong') picked by DrNothing 10 months ago
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 Robots Battle Autism
Robots Battle Autism
It may not be lasers and explosions like Transformers or Terminator, but Robots are doing battle against autism using bubbles! picked by icepigs 4 weeks ago
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 Shock: First Animal on Earth Was Surprisingly Complex
Shock: First Animal on Earth Was Surprisingly Complex
Earth's first animal was the ocean-drifting comb jelly, not the simple sponge, according to a new find that has shocked scientists who didn't imagine the earliest critter could be so complex. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago
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 New Generation Of Home Robots Have Gentle Touch
New Generation Of Home Robots Have Gentle Touch
Who doesn’t long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks. Research scientists have now presented a new generation of household robots, picked by bjk1903 1 month ago
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 New York Subway Vent Animals
New York Subway Vent Animals [video]
Vents in New York sidewalks blow gusts of air up to street level each time a subway train goes past. So if you attached an inflatable animal to the vent it would stand up with each gust. Watch it - it will make sense.

Part 2, which is more involved, in the comments. picked by pocksucket 4 months ago
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 TIME's 80 Years of Robots in Hollywood
TIME's 80 Years of Robots in Hollywood
"For our policemen, we created a race of robots... In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us... At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor." picked by DrNothing 1 year ago
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