The futuristic robo-remake hits theaters everywhere today. But is Robocop too good to be true?

Robocop takes place 14 years from now where the world is "robo-phobic" and evil scientist are capable of making disabled cops like Alex Murphy in to cybernetic, bad ass machines. Is this fictional action sci-fi stretching the "truth" by making movie goers believe that we could turn humans in to fully mechanical robots? Charles Higgins, associate professor of neuroscience and electrical engineering at the University of Arizona, talked to Discovery News about how unlikely and fictional Robocop is.

Don't expect to see superhuman cops for another 100 years or more:

“In the next twenty or thirty years, you will start to see people who are unable to walk do so with functional prosthetics,” he told Discovery News. “But to be superhuman is going to be much farther off. To be able to do the things that RoboCop can do, I think is 100 years off or more.”

For now, only monkeys could relate to Robocop:

“That would be the closest thing we’ve seen in the real world to something like RoboCop,” Higgins said. “Basically, one of the monkey’s arms could be paralyzed and it could feed itself with the robotic arm.”

Bill Nye and Ken Ham are going to (hopefully) have an intelligent and engaging "evolution vs. creationism" debate at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., tonight at 7 p.m. ET.

The beef started when Nye's "Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children" video went viral. Basicly, Nye said, in so many words, that evolution naysayers need stop forcing their religious beliefs on their children because we need more scientists and engineers and less bible thumpers.That's when Ham dissed Nye with his own Think Big video.

How can this end? Will Nye give up logic and reason and start saying his prayers? Or will Ham burn his bible and live a life of sin?

You can watch the whole debate on The Range (after the break):

Just what happens when you strike a match? YouTube filmmaker UltraSlo finds out for us.

(Hat tip: Gizmodo)

Here's the closest you're likely to come to leaving the planet: The big brains behind the UA's OSIRIS-REx mission are gathering names for a list that will accompany the plucky robot lab on its trip out to Asteroid Bennu and back. (More on the way-cool space mission here.)

Teenagers who smoked a lot of marijuana daily for three years responded shoddily on memory exercises and showed abnormal alterations in brain structure, according to a Northwestern Medicine study.

These abnormalities were recorded two years after the teens stopped using marijuana, possibly indicating long-term effects, and look similar to schizophrenia-related brain abnormalities.

The brains were shaped more abnormally for individuals who began marijuana use at a younger age, according to the reports, which suggest that memory regions of the brain are more susceptible to the drug at earlier ages.

Last week, I wrote about the UA's OSIRIS-REx space mission to gather samples from an asteroid. One of the OSIRIS-REx's mission is to teach us earthlings about the mission via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Here's a short video full of fun facts about asteroids.

At 5:43 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 9, UA Professor of Planetary Science Dante Lauretta unveiled the countdown clock for the OSIRIS-Rex mission.

At that point, exactly 999 days remained until the launch window opened for the UA’s latest foray into the final frontier: A robotic space probe designed to swing up next to an asteroid, take photos and gather data, and then swoop in close enough to grab a sample from the space rock that will be launched back to Earth in a capsule.

“This is a constant reminder now to everybody in this building and everybody on the team: Every day when you come into work, you’ll see that the clock is ticking, time is going by and the launch window is inescapable,” said Lauretta, who serving as principal investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission. “The asteroid is not going to wait for us. We have to get off the surface of the Earth starting in September of 2016.”

While that may seem like a long way off, there’s much work that needs to be done in order to get OSIRIS-REx off the ground. Before the launch, the team will have to build and test a collection of cameras and other instruments that will work in concert with each other to ensure that the $800 million mission is a success. (Wikipedia has a good rundown of the various instruments.)

The first step happens between now and April of next year as the team puts the components through what’s called a “shake and bake” test.

“We’re going to shake it harder than the rocket is going to shake it,” Lauretta said. “We’re gonna bake it hotter than the sun is going to bake it. We’re going to put it through all the different environments that it is going to experience in deep space and make sure it can still operate.”

Do you often find yourself daydreaming and bored to tears while on the clock? Researchers at the University of Central Lancashire in England have found that boredom helps with creativity and it gives us the time to daydream. Earl Nightingale once said, "You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."

The "wizz-kids"at Brigham Young University have been hard at work trying to find the best method to spray the porcelain. A team of four scientist have developed methods on how to avoid urinating on the wall, floor and pants all at the same time. I guess I have been doing it wrong my whole life, but I blame my mother because she taught me. Now I wonder what else I'm doing wrong. 

Here's how the fellas can avoid wetting themselves: 

In analyzing their results, the researchers found that sitting on a toilet, as most men well know, results in the least amount of splash-back (the contact point is much closer). They also discovered something likely few men have considered—that urine follows what is known as the Plateau-Rayleigh instability—where a pee stream breaks up into drops before striking something else. That's the worst thing that can happen, the team reports, because each drop creates splash-back. To avoid that, men should stand as close to the urinal as possible they advise. Also helpful is directing the stream to hit the back of the urinal at a downward angle. That creates less splash-back and the drops that do bounce, head downwards into the urinal drain. Conversely, to prevent messing one's trousers (or angering neighbors) they suggest men not spray directly into the urinal or into the pool that forms at the bottom of the urinal, both cause a lot of splash-back.

By Cronkite News Service
Originally published: Oct 31, 2013 - 5:00 am

PHOENIX — Medical education the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix just got a little more "real."

On Wednesday morning, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, Dr. Stuart Flynn, dean at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix and Christopher Sakezles, president of SynDaver Labs, announced an exclusive collaboration between the medical school and the Tampa, Fla.-based company.

SynDaver Labs creates synthetic cadavers - hence the company name — that will provide indispensable learning opportunities to UA medical students.

"It (the synthetic cadaver) has a heart that beats and blood flows. It has a liver that can make bile, so you can imagine, procedural-wise, this is profound," Flynn explained.

SynDaver Labs also created the world's most sophisticated synthetic human tissues and body parts, which means medical schools and laboratories can reduce or eliminate live animals, cadavers and human patients in clinical training and surgical simulation.

"Now our students learn how to start an IV on something that very much emulates a human arm, for instance, but they get to practice over and over again, which you and I wouldn't like as a patient," said Flynn.