As a result of the tireless work by scientists, we now know the answers to some age-old mysteries.

These super-nerds are out there right now, crunching the numbers on things that actually matter.

One of the best things about Science is that it answers questions we never realized needed answering. In fact, Science gets so overeager sometimes that it starts answering questions that really shouldn't have been asked in the first place.

Death will claim every one of us. But some of us don't go down so easily.

It seems some engineers would like to take us past the uncanny valley and make us empathize with our inevitable robot overlords.

We have hit that theoretical point in time when our machines become bigger dicks than we are.

Sadly, the lightsaber is not on this list. Yet.

We are one WEIRD species.

Does science waste time on frivolous experiments? Yep, but sometimes they pay off.

Seriously, most of these characters use their incredible abilities to do one or two neat things and then forget they have them.