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3-D Printed Buildings Coming Soon to a Moon Near You
The European Space Agency wants to 3-D print a moon base. A multi-dome moon base being constructed. The top left and middle domes are completed, while you can see robots in process of building the top...
View ArticleFish Neurons Fire in Real-Time as It Stalks Prey
Studying the links between brain and behavior may have just gotten easier. For the first time, neuroscientists have found a way to watch neurons fire in an independently moving animal. Though the study...
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meta AR glasses to offer gesture control of 3D virtual objects
It’s been a staple of science fiction for decades, but now the idea of augmented reality (AR) enhancing our lives by way of hi-tech wearable glasses is finally becoming a reality for consumers....
View ArticleBerkeley researchers find evidence for a "molecular fountain of youth"
The quest for longer and healthier life, if not immortality, has been part of the human experience since we evolved the ability to recognize the total annihilation of individual death. Our...
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Scientists 3-D Print With Human Embryonic Stem Cells
3-D printers can produce gun parts, aircraft wings, food and a lot more, but this new 3-D printed product may be the craziest thing yet: human embryonic stem cells. Stem Cell Printer Human embryonic...
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Handheld Black Hornet Nano drones issued to U.K. soldiers
Drones have become a valuable asset for any military force in recent years for both combat and surveillance. But while scanning a warzone from miles away is great from a tactical standpoint, unmanned...
View ArticleThe Teeny, Tiny Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter Is Available For Pre-Order
A tiny new open source drone kit made by Bitcraze is buzzing its way to market this spring, targeted at hackers and modders who want to explore droning indoors as well as out. Marcus Eliasson, Arnaud...
View ArticleMoths Looking For Love Drive A Robot Exoskeleton
If Mothra saw this contraption there'd be some Japanese scientists on the lam. But since she's distracted, scientists strapped hapless male silkmoths into an drivable exoskeleton and lured the specter...
View ArticleGreen500 Inventor Asked to Improve Robo-Bugs
The man who designed the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputer in 2011 has taken on a new task: improving how robo-bugs fly. Wu-chun Feng, an associate professor of computer science in the...
View ArticleFirst Bionic Eye Sees Light of Day in U.S.
After years of research, the first bionic eye has seen the light of day in the United States, giving hope to the blind around the world. Developed by Second Sight Medical Products, the Argus II Retinal...
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Microneedles used to deliver live dried vaccines through the skin
Scientists have used microneedle arrays to store a live vaccine at room temperature, and administer it through the skin of lab mice While it’s vitally important to bring vaccines for diseases such as...
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Cell circuits remember their history
MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results, which are encoded in the cell’s DNA and passed on for dozens of...
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How Two Scientists Make 3-D Holographic Movies Of Individual Cells
The microscopy world just went from studying still photo galleries to watching 3-D movie snippets. Two researchers have figured out a way to generate holographic images of cells at the nanoscale and...
View ArticleCheck Out This Tiny 3-D Printed Spaceship
The tiny spaceship in the video above was built using a microscale 3-D printer. At 125 micrometers long, the craft is about the length of a dust mite, and it took less than 50 seconds to produce. The...
View ArticleHarvard soft robot explodes into action, jumps 30 times its height (video)
Harvard University has pushed its soft robot concept in strange directions, but an exploding robot? That takes the cake. A new three-legged, silicone-based variant of the robot is filled with methane...
View ArticleCould you kill this robot?
"The relationship [between humans and machines] is profoundly social," says Stanford researcher Clifford Nas, who specializes in communication between humans and interactive media, in a recent...
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Bill Gates Wants to Be Immortal
Bill "The Boy Wonder" Gates is trying to stay young. As usual, he's been busy giving all of his money away and hanging out in his $150 million house. (You know, the one that has a swimming pool with an...
View ArticleMind blowing: President Obama wants to invest in mapping the human brain
Among his many calls to action in the state of the union address, President Barack Obama defended research funding against the potential cuts from the sequester. It was gratifying to see a clear...
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Video: A 3-D Printed Silicone Robot Tentacle
The fact that this soft tentacle robot bears such a striking resemblance to the male sexual organ is not entirely accidental: its maker, Matthew Borgatti, thinks that the "inflexible skeletal elements"...
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3D print your own robot with Hello Robo's MAKI
Hot on the heels of InMoov, the 3D-printable android, comes a similar but much less intimidating project for DIYers by Hello Robo. MAKI is a cute communication robot that can be assembled from...
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