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The next step: 3D printing the human body
Bioprinting, or the process of creating human tissues through 3D printers, is a highly contested area of technological innovation. Theoretically it could save the economy billions on a global scale,...
View ArticleInspired by Swarming Termites, Robots Can Build Without Supervision
Thinking about insect swarms can make your skin crawl. But for some scientists, those thoughts inspired an idea for creating small robots that as a group can build a simple structure, with each bot...
View ArticleHigh-tech glasses help surgeons see cancer cells
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, have developed a way of visualizing cancer cells using high-tech glasses designed to make it easier for surgeons to distinguish...
View ArticleBioPlotting Is People
Fully 3D printed organs are on their way, with much room for improvement One of the more innovative, and potentially world-changing areas of 3D printing revolves around the medical industry and...
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Amazon electric fish inspire underwater robotics
Electric fish from South America are opening up new ideas in robotics. Ghost knifefish, as they are known, put a small current through the water to sense their environment, and undulate a long fin to...
View ArticleGoogle Developing Internet That’s Over 1,000 Times Faster Than Yours
Most of the country is still waiting for the sort of super-fast gigabit internet connections available in places like Kansas City, Kansas and Chattanooga, Tennessee. But Google is already exploring the...
View ArticleGerman ping pong champion to play against industrial robot next month
When boats are launched for the first time, it's customary to smash a bottle of champagne across the bow. But for industrial-robot maker Kuka, its new factory in southwestern Shanghai is being...
View ArticleFishing rod reels brain tumour cells to their death
Let's go fishing… for cancer cells. A tiny rod has been developed that reels in brain tumour cells and guides them out of the brain to their death. Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive type...
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3D-printed exoskeleton helps paralyzed skier walk again
Amanda Boxtel's doctors told her she'd never walk again. But her new 3D-printed exoskeleton says otherwise. In 1992, Boxtel was paralyzed from the waist down in a catastrophic skiing accident. But 22...
View ArticleEngineers in Korea develop head-mounted display with augmented reality chip
Walking around the streets searching for a place to eat will be no hassle when a head-mounted display (HMD) becomes affordable and ubiquitous. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and...
View ArticleArtificial leaf jumps developmental hurdle
Scientists report advances toward perfecting a functional artificial leaf. Designing an artificial leaf that uses solar energy to convert water cheaply and efficiently into hydrogen and oxygen is an...
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'Avatar'- brain implant could help paralysed patients
Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how we move. During tests they moved the arm of one monkey using the brain of another. The 'master' monkey's brain was wired to the spinal cord of...
View ArticleCan 'Robotic' Pills Replace Injections?
The adage "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" is destined for a futuristic makeover. Doctors may just as easily recommend swallowing sophisticated gadgets instead. View Graphics That is the...
View Article'Sociable' humanoid robots could help advance human-robot interaction
Are we on the brink of a robotics revolution? That's what numerous media outlets asked last December when Google acquired eight robotics companies that specialize in such innovations as manipulation,...
View ArticleU.S. Army could begin testing its Iron Man suits as early as June
It took Tony Stark decades and countless prototypes to get his Iron Man suit to its current level of awesomeness, and we're guessing the U.S. military's own effort to build super-suits for its soldiers...
View ArticleDutch scientists flap to the future with 'insect' drone
Dutch scientists have developed the world's smallest autonomous flapping drone, a dragonfly-like beast with 3-D vision that could revolutionise our experience of everything from pop concerts to...
View Article7 new smartphone features that will help define your future
Biosensors will soon be integrated into clothing, shoes and accessories such as Sensoria smart socks, prescription Google Glass and smart workout gear from Athos, which is due this summer and is...
View ArticleNew research helps explain how social understanding is performed by the brain
An important question has been answered about how social understanding is performed in the brain. The findings may help us to attain a better understanding of why people with autism and schizophrenia...
View ArticleNew neurons in diseased brain region
In a study published in the journal Cell, scientists at Karolinska Institutet show that new neurons are generated in the adult human striatum through measurements of carbon-14 that resulted from...
View ArticleResearchers generate new neurons in brains, spinal cords of living adult mammals
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants to replenish lost cells. Although the...
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