Thanks to the efforts of Argo Medical Technologies, paraplegics may soon be given the chance to know what it's like to stand up and walk again. Engineer Amit Goffer, founder of the Israeli high-tech company, developed an electronic exoskeleton called "ReWalk", which can help people paralyzed from the waist down to stand, walk, and even climb stairs.

In the mood for some brain-eating action? Wideload's Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse has just become available for download as an Xbox Original. Along for the ride is Midway Games' Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows. Hit the full article for more details.

General belief holds the Black Death as an indiscriminate killer that cut down anyone it took hold of regardless of sex, age, or health level. A new study by a pair of anthropologists have revealed, however, that the pandemic was actually more selective than previously thought. More in the full article.

Perhaps this story is more telling of domestic violence rather than violence caused by video games. A 17-year-old and his 60-year-old father were having a dispute over the boy's console. It ended strangely and violently when the boy asked his father to shoot him. And his father did. Read the whole story in the full article.

Researchers from Harvard University and Pennsylvania State University are undertaking an ambitious project to beat the heat. They have currently invented a technology which will reduce the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by human emissions and help speed up nature's natural process of cleaning up greenhouse gases.

Read more about the proposed project after the jump!