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Japanese robots make a stink about bad breath, body odor
Have you got a case of dog breath? How about smelly feet? Friends and family may not tell you, but a couple of new robots will. Built by the Kitakyushu National College of Technology and a group of...
View ArticleBrain's 'Garbage Truck' May Hold Key to Treating Alzheimer's and Other Disorders
In a perspective piece appearing today in the journal Science, researchers at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) point to a newly discovered system by which the brain removes waste as a...
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Telescopic contact lens with switchable magnification to help AMD patients
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among older adults in the western world. Unfortunately, conventional optical aids provide little help for a retina which has...
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First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist
Technical barriers to grafting one person’s head onto another person’s body can now be overcome, says Dr. Sergio Canavero, a member of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group. In a recent paper,...
View Article3D printing will arrive with Windows 8 update
Microsoft has announced that an upcoming update to Windows 8 will have built-in support for 3D printing. The company promises Windows 8.1 will provide everyone with easy-to-use 3D printing capabilities...
View ArticleNew Way Discovered to Block Inflammation
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a mechanism that triggers chronic inflammation in Alzheimer's, atherosclerosisand type-2 diabetes. The results, published today in Nature...
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Introducing TORO, Germany's new humanoid robot
Engineers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have proven once again that they know how to make a snazzy looking robot. Quietly announced to little fanfare, DLR's Robotics and Mechatronics Center...
View ArticleThe Anthropocene: Humankind as a Turning Point for Earth
The Anthropocene is the name of a proposed new geological time period (probably an epoch) that may soon enter the official Geologic Time Scale. The Anthropocene is defined by the human influence on...
View ArticleHigh-speed customization of novel nanoparticles for drug delivery and...
A new coating technology developed at MIT, combined with a novel nanoparticle-manufacturing technology developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, may offer scientists a way to...
View ArticleExercise Reorganizes the Brain to Be More Resilient to Stress
The researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience that when mice allowed to exercise regularly experienced a stressor exposure to cold water their brains exhibited a spike in the activity of...
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South Korean Cheetaroid Wants to Join the Cat Robot Race
Four-legged robots are multiplying in labs around the world, and a number of projects are drawing inspiration from one particular family of animals: big cats. This new breed includes Boston Dynamics's...
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3D-printed Cortex concept scratches the itch of healing broken bones
The only thing worse than breaking a bone is waiting for it to heal. During the healing process itself, wearing a fiberglass and plaster cast can be a stinky, itchy endeavor that is uncomfortable and...
View ArticleA humanoid robot that sees, knows where it is, and walks like a human?
Samsung’s Roboray — a humanoid robot who actually walks like a human, sort of — just got a brain upgrade: new computer-vision algorithms developed by University of Bristol researchers. Roboray can now...
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Why Your Memory Sucks
Human memory is quirky, complicated, and unreliable. Even when we think we're remembering everything accurately, chances are things have gotten twisted along the way. Let’s take a look at why your...
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Giant Crabster robot to explore shipwrecks and shallow seas
Тhe Japanese spider crab is about to lose its title as the world's largest crustacean thanks to a new robot, the Crabster, developed in South Korea. For the past 2 years, researchers at the Korean...
View ArticleShape-Shifting Disease Proteins May Explain Neurodegenerative Variation
Neurodegenerative diseases are not all alike. Two individuals suffering from the same disease may experience very different age of onset, symptoms, severity, and constellation of impairments, as well...
View ArticleHow the Brain Creates the 'Buzz' That Helps Ideas Spread
How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted? UCLA psychologists have taken a significant step toward answering these questions, identifying for the first...
View ArticleBreakthrough Could Lead to 'Artificial Skin' That Senses Touch, Humidity and...
Using tiny gold particles and a kind of resin, a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has discovered how to make a new kind of flexible sensor that one day could be...
View ArticlePower Jacket MK3 leaps from comic book pages into reality
In recent years Japan has erected life-sized statues of giant robots like Tetsujin-28 go (Gigantor) and a Gundam mobile suit, but statues can't defend the island nation from kaiju attack. Perhaps that...
View ArticleNuclear bomb tests reveal brain regeneration in humans
Nuclear bomb tests carried out during the cold war have had an unexpected benefit. A radioactive carbon isotope expelled by the blasts has been used to date the age of adult human brain cells,...
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