Scientists Invented a Jail-Breaking Liquid Metal Robot

Someone call James Cameron — a team of scientists just invented a new kind of liquid metal robot that can shapeshift between solid and liquid form using the power of magnetism. Also, the Earth's spinning inner core may have slowed down so much it looks like it's spinning backwards from a certain point of view. But that's okay, it's happened before.

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