Nasa developing exoskeleton to help astronauts exercise in zero gravity and...
A spinoff from robotic space technology may someday help astronauts stay fit in space and help paraplegics walk on Earth, Nasa says. The U.S. space agency and the Florida Institute for Human and...
View ArticleWorld's Most Wired War Healer
Dr. Joachim Kohn has never seen combat. He has never retaliated enemy fire, deployed with a platoon to some foreign, war-ravaged nation, or ridden shotgun in a tank. But from his first years of...
View ArticleAn ultralight graphene structure for all seasons
Chemists in China claim to have created the lightest graphene framework to date. The material, which is light enough to rest on a dandelion seed head, is also fire resistant and has record-breaking...
View ArticleRobotic wheelchair can climb steps, traverse uneven surfaces, turn on the spot
A new wheelchair developed by Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology is able to cope with uneven surfaces and tight spaces with ease. The chair uses an array of sensors to detect obstacles and terrain...
View ArticleBrain’s language center has multiple roles
A century and a half ago, French physician Pierre Paul Broca found that patients with damage to part of the brain’s frontal lobe were unable to speak more than a few words. Later dubbed Broca’s area,...
View ArticleFar, far beyond wrist radios: At Homeland Security's think tank, first...
To believe that technologies once dreamed of in science fiction novels, television shows, and comic strips may one day be a reality, or that real-world technologies might make the fantastic devices of...
View ArticleMIT pencil 'draws' gas sensors onto paper
The "pencil lead" is made out of sheets of carbon rolled into tubes 50,000 times smaller than a human hair. The researchers said it was a safer alternative to an existing process that used a toxic...
View ArticleMagnetic nanoparticles used to control thousands of cells simultaneously
Using clusters of tiny magnetic particles about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have shown that...
View Article[IROS 2012] Harvard RoboBees Learn to Steer, Mostly
Harvard has been working on a robotic bee for five years now. Five years is a long time in the fast-paced world of robotics, but when you're trying to design a controllable flying robot that weighs...
View ArticleResearchers create 'nanoflowers' for energy storage, solar cells
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created flower-like structures out of germanium sulfide (GeS) – a semiconductor material – that have extremely thin petals with an enormous surface...
View ArticleAeroVelo's Atlas joins Sikorsky race for human-powered helicopter flight
The efforts of Maryland University's Gamera II team in snaring the US$250,000 Sikorsky Prize for human-powered helicopter flight have garnered much attention (not least from Gizmag) in recent months,...
View ArticleGood news for small hospitals: Scientists develop affordable way to generate...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a safe and affordable way to ensure a reliable U.S. supply of certain medical isotopes. Although the...
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Magnetism In Thin Insulating Films at Room Temperature
Researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology have succeeded in producing ultrathin films with an unusual combination of properties. At room temperature they do not...
View ArticleDebate on “Immortality as We Understand It”
October 20, 2012 at 1:00 in the Museum library NF Fedorov will be a meeting of the youth literary and philosophical studio “Aletheia”. Admission is free. The Program includes: Report of the Head...
View ArticleNanotubes To Deliver Chemo Where And When It’s Needed
Unusually large and roomy carbon nanotubes could deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors and release them on command, according to a new study (Nano Lett., DOI: 10.1021/nl301865c). A harmless...
View ArticleA ROBOT TEAM STANDS UP TO FIGHT IEDs
The Israeli robotics developer Roboteam is introducing a new miniature robot designed for intelligence gathering and counter IED (C-IED) operations. The ultra-light, 13-lb, highly maneuverable robot...
View ArticleScientists Read Dreams
Scientists have learned how to discover what you are dreaming about while you sleep. A team of researchers led by Yukiyasu Kamitani of the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan,...
View ArticleVirginia Tech's CHARLI-2 robot dances Gangnam Style
Just in case you haven't had your fill of PSY's viral K-POP sensation, the researchers at Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) have put out a new video of their robot dancing...
View ArticleSkolkovo Goes in for Perpetuum Mobile
The Skolkovo Foundation, the principal Russian agency responsible for the Skolkovo Innovation Center, announced that it "prepares a scientific revolution." The agency invited to its "Global Energy...
View ArticleHow the brain forms categories
Neurobiologists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna investigated how the brain is able to group external stimuli into stable categories. They found the answer in the...
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