The robots are coming. We’ve covered the inevitable technological singularity at HowStuffWorks.com and it seems like news of computer advancement is making the headlines with increasingly regularity. While the situation isn’t yet as dire as “Battlestar Galactica” made it out to be (or as unevenly written), it does seem like the robots are indeed getting smarter.

In fact, according to the Guardian and Reuters, scientists at New York’s Cornell University have a super computer named Adam that has already surpassed scientific legend Isaac Newton. Adam observes regularities in the natural world and devises laws based on the data. In a manner of hours, the computer managed to figure out Newton’s laws of motion.

The researchers insist that the bot’s main skill is in cracking tons of data to spot underlying natural principles and, while this wouldn’t replace human scientists, it could seriously speed up advancements across the entire spectrum of scientific research.