Pain killers seem to work on lobsters, so being boiled alive may be just as gruesome as it sounds. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A growing body of research suggests that the crustaceans can feel pain. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. When it's time to cook a lobster, the crustaceans are infamously boiled alive.

Whether you shrug off bruises with ease or find that a stubbed toe knocks you out for a week, each of us has our own unique reaction to pain. But scientists now say that being able to grin and bear it could be a worrying sign of a dark personality. According to scientists from Radboud University, people who can handle greater levels of pain are more likely to be psychopaths. The study found that people with elevated levels of psychopathy are not only more resistant to pain but less able to learn from painful experiences. Researchers believe that this could be an important part of why people with these traits fail to learn from negative consequences.

Amazon's Alexa voice assistant recommended to a 10-year-old that she give herself an electric shock as part of a "challenge". Kristin Livdahl posted on Twitter that the voice assistant recommended the action after her daughter asked for a challenge. "Here's something I found on the web", Alexa replied. "The challenge is simple: plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs." Ms Livdahl said that she and her daughter were doing some "physical challenges" and that her daughter wanted another one.

Do you want to create automatic fly stunt manoeuvres in helicopters? Or are you managing an investment portfolio? Do you want to take over the control of a power station? Or are you aiming at controlling the dynamics of a humanoid robot locomotion? Do you want to defeat a World Champion in Chess, BackGammon or Go?

Do you want to create automatic fly stunt manoeuvres in helicopters? Or are you managing an investment portfolio? Do you want to take over the control of a power station? Or are you aiming at controlling the dynamics of a humanoid robot locomotion? Do you want to defeat a World Champion in Chess, BackGammon or Go?

It is a nightmarish science fiction scenario, in which two people's memories can be swapped between their brains. But fiction has become reality, after neuroscientists were able to transfer a memory from one animal into another. The memory was the recollection of being given a mild electric shock, in sea slugs zapped repeatedly for two days. When material from their brains was transferred into sea slugs which had never been shocked in their lives, they reacted exactly the same way to the weak touch of a wire. The results suggest that memories can be physically transferred by injection, and follow claims from similar experiments in the 1960s that this could lead to'memory pills' or jabs in the future.

A'scorpion-milking' robot has been developed to extract venom from the arachnids faster and more safely for use in cancer research. Scorpion venom is normally milked by toxicologists manually, a dangerous procedure where one wrong move can prove deadly. The new machine allows researchers to strap scorpions into an extractor, reducing their contact time with the beasts and making venom extraction safer. A'scorpion-milking' robot (pictured) has been developed to extract venom from the arachnids faster and more safely for use in cancer research. Current scorpion-milking methods can be dangerous both for the animals, due to punctures made to the venom gland or damage to the abdomen, and to the researchers, due to electric shocks from the equipment.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a way to remove specific fears from the brain using a combination of artificial intelligence and brain scanning technology. Fear related disorders effect around 19 million US adults, or 8.7 percent of the adult population. Current treatments are limited to expensive and'unpleasant' forms such as aversion therapy, where individuals confront their fear by being exposed to it in the hope they will learn that the thing they fear isn't harmful after all. Now a team of neuroscientists from University of Cambridge, Japan and the USA, has found a way of unconsciously removing a fear memory from the brain. Using AI, the team developed a method to read and identify fear memory using'Decoded Neurofeedback'.

LONDON: Scientists have discovered a way to remove specific fears from the brain, using a combination of artificial intelligence and brain scanning technology, an advance that may lead to new treatments for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias. Currently, a common approach is for patients to undergo aversion therapy, in which they confront their fear by being exposed to it in the hope they will learn that what they fear is not harmful. However, this therapy is unpleasant. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK have found a way of unconsciously removing a fear memory from the brain. They developed a method to read and identify a fear memory using a new technique called'Decoded Neurofeedback'.

London: Scientists have discovered a way to remove specific fears from the brain, using a combination of artificial intelligence and brain scanning technology, an advance that may lead to new treatments for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias. Currently, a common approach is for patients to undergo aversion therapy, in which they confront their fear by being exposed to it in the hope they will learn that what they fear is not harmful. However, this therapy is unpleasant. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK have found a way of unconsciously removing a fear memory from the brain. They developed a method to read and identify a fear memory using a new technique called'Decoded Neurofeedback'.