WASHINGTON - A BRITISH scientist is calling for immediate introduction of robot ethics guidelines amid surging use of the machines and concern about their lack of human responsibility while caring for children or the elderly.
WASHINGTON - FOR anyone with an interest in the starry skies and around US$42 million (S$61.6 million) to spare, Nasa may have an interesting proposition.
The US space agency has announced it is selling three used space shuttles when they are retired in 2010, after 30 years of service.
Scientists said on Friday they had replicated an experiment in which people obediently delivered painful shocks to others if encouraged to do so by authority figures.
BETHESDA (Maryland) - WITH the US economy slumping, the going has got very tough, but the tough are no longer shopping. They're laughing.
Not just any old laughter, but laughter yoga, a form of exercise that blends bold belly laughs and noisy 'meditation' with rhythmic clapping, waddling around like a penguin or taking part in a conga line, and deep yogic breathing.
