Maize cells produce enzyme-replacement drug
Growing crops is simpler and cheaper than culturing mammalian cells, which can harbour human pathogens and must be kept at precise temperatures and fed particular nutrients. But culturing mammalian...
View ArticleOut of disorder comes electricity
A scrambled-up material has broken the record for converting heat into electricity. Findings published today in Nature suggest that disorder may be the key to creating a new generation of...
View ArticleThe rally "For radical life extension"
On Saturday, September 22 at 3:00PM at Revolution Square in Moscow, there will be a rally held “for radical life extension.” The purpose of the meeting – to say that anti-aging is possible and...
View ArticleAustralian Researchers Create Functioning Quantum Bit
A research team led by Australian engineers has created the first working quantum bit based on a single atom in silicon, opening the way to ultra-powerful quantum computers of the future. In a landmark...
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DARPA creates the ultimate military threat detection system
After more than four years of research, DARPA has created a system that successfully combines soldiers, EEG brainwave scanners, 120-megapixel cameras, and multiple computers running cognitive visual...
View ArticleResearch gives insight into graphene-metal junctions
Graphene appears to have many of the properties needed to usher in the next generation of electronic devices. The next step in building those devices, however, requires creating junctions that connect...
View ArticleBreathing nanotubes pop out buckyballs like peas in a pod
"Breathing" nanotubes that contract and expand autonomously could be used to deliver drugs around the body. Researchers have previously created molecules capable of automatically forming into tiny...
View ArticleSARTRE autonomous road train project completed
The SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project that first hit the road in 2011 before conducting its first public road test earlier this year has now been completed. As well as finding that...
View ArticleDARPA's New Mind-Reading Binoculars Are Scary-Efficient At Identifying Enemies
Remember Tony Stark's augmented reality lenses from the Iron Man movies -- the ones that separated civilians from hostiles, so the Iron Man knew whom to target? What about Luke Skywalker's binoculars...
View Article‘Training’ a memristive network
Researchers in Italy and Germany have developed an organic memristive device that mimics the adaptive processes occurring in nervous systems such as the human brain. The work is one of the main...
View ArticleNew Use for Those Incredible Nanotubes: Holograms
Carbon nanotubes — a manmade material many times thinner than a wavelength of visible light — can be used to create highly detailed holograms, researchers say. These carbon tubes are hollow pipes only...
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Hydrogen fuel cell for phone charging set for 2013
A three-way collaboration between Japan-based Rohm, Aquafairy, and Kyoto University has resulted in the development of a smartphone-charging fuel cell—a compact, high output, portable hydrogen powered...
View ArticleData that lives forever is possible: Japan's Hitachi
The company on Monday unveiled a method of storing digital information on slivers of quartz glass that can endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading, almost forever. And for...
View ArticleOscillating microscopic beads could be key to biolab on a chip
The results, based on work by graduate student Elizabeth Rapoport and assistant professor Geoffrey Beach, of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), are described in a paper...
View ArticleRobot cars now officially legal in California
At a signing ceremony at the Google headquarters on Tuesday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law state legislation that officially makes the Golden State the second in the nation to...
View ArticleComputers match humans in understanding art
Understanding and evaluating art has widely been considered as a task meant for humans, until now. Computer scientists Lior Shamir and Jane Tarakhovsky of Lawrence Technological University in Michigan...
View ArticleAfrican Spiny Mouse's Skin-Shedding Ability May Hold Key To Regeneration Of...
A mouse that escapes predators by shedding patches of its skin may shed light on regeneration and could lead to research that one day helps people heal from wounds and disease, scientists say. Humans...
View ArticleThree-dimensional fiber scaffold promotes large-scale stem cell proliferation...
Thanks to the ability of pluripotent stem cells to self-renew and differentiate into a wide variety of specialized cell types, they are expected to revolutionize the treatment of illnesses such as type...
View ArticleWall-Ye wine robot takes bow in Burgundy
A new vineyard worker is looking for a job in France. He has four wheels, two arms and six cameras, prunes 600 vines per day, and never calls in sick. The Wall-Ye V.I.N. robot, brainchild of...
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Element 113: Ununtrium Reportedly Synthesized In Japan
Scientists in Japan think they've finally created the elusive element 113, one of the missing items on the periodic table of elements. Element 113 is an atom with 113 protons in its nucleus — a type of...
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