Are you the sort of person that follows science and technology news and can't stop thinking, "why can't I do that?" You aren't alone. A lab space has opened in the San Francisco area catering to people just like you. Citizen scientists, inventors and the curious of all walks of life are welcome at the lab to conduct experiments in a working lab environment.

Back in the early 1990s, I kind of just assumed I'd have a pet dinosaur by now. I probably would have enjoyed naming him something ironic, like Peanut. Or maybe Dino Gillespie. But that's all beside the point because scientists have apparently all been spending their time discovering exoplanets and making dancing robots instead of working on cloning some friggin' dinosaurs. But before resigning ourselves to a decidedly undinosaured fate; there are some faint beacons of hope that may yet result in something resembling a real live rawr-ing dinosaur! I guess better late than never, right? We'll see. Just make with the T. rex, scienceface.

Astronomers have captured images of a black hole shooting two "bullets" of ionized gas travelling at nearly a quarter the speed of light. The explosion is so powerful it produces as much energy in one hour as the sun emits in five years.

We report a lot about robots. Flying robots, military robots, assistive robots, medical robots…you name it and we've covered it. Now we can tick prison guard robots to the list, with the South Korean Ministry of Justice announcement they will be adding three new prison guard robots to pull night duty in a prison in Pohang.