Engineers design ‘living materials’
Inspired by natural materials such as bone — a matrix of minerals and other substances, including living cells — MIT engineers have coaxed bacterial cells to produce biofilms that can incorporate...
View ArticleNASA shows off next-generation Z-2 spacesuits, makes us question its fashion...
NASA has revealed its newest range of next-generation spacesuits, the Z-2. The Z series of spacesuits is a series of prototypes that NASA is working its way through, with the eventual goal of creating...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence is the next big tech trend. Here’s why.
For more than 50 years, we’ve been hearing about the promise of artificial intelligence and intelligent machines, but most of the big success stories to date – the IBM Watsons of the world – have been...
View Article3D printing saving lives in the operating room
For 18-month-old Garrett Peterson, every breath is a struggle. He was born with a condition known as tracheomalacia, a disease that deforms the muscles around the trachea and makes it difficult to...
View Article3rd International Conference Genetics of Aging and Longevity
PRESS RELEASE World's leading researchers in the field of mechanisms of aging and longevity will gather together in Russia for the first time to search for scientific ways of extending human healthy...
View ArticleSignificant progress toward creating 'benchtop human' reported
Significant progress toward creating "homo minutus" -- a benchtop human -- was reported at the Society of Toxicology meeting on Mar. 26 in Phoenix. Scientists are reporting significant progress toward...
View ArticleBionic spinach, invisible barcodes and nanotube computers
Collecting the sun Sunlight provides us with an endless source of energy and there is little doubt future societies will need to rely, at least in part, on artificial solar power. The reason why not...
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Switzerland Will Host the First Bionic Olympics in 2016
Last month, I wrote about the risk of a "technology doping" scandal during this year’s Olympic Games in Sochi, which were peppered with souped-up gear like nanotech swimsuits made by aerospace...
View ArticleImmortality, biotechnology, and the woefully unprepared criminal justice system
Here’s an interesting thought experiment for you: What happens to life imprisonment — for murder and other heinous crimes — if the human lifespan is increased? If we live until 150 or 250 or 350 (which...
View ArticleNeurosurgeons successfully implant 3D printed skull
A 22-year-old woman from the Netherlands who suffers from a chronic bone disorder -- which has increased the thickness of her skull from 1.5cm to 5cm, causing reduced eyesight and severe headaches --...
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A Robot Made Me Do It
Now, robots are everywhere, seducing us on screen and through screens, stealing our jobs, saving us from our jobs, suggesting to us what to listen to or watch or buy next. A new study indicates we're...
View ArticleNew clue to autism found inside brain cells
The problems people with autism have with memory formation, higher-level thinking and social interactions may be partially attributable to the activity of receptors inside brain cells, researchers at...
View ArticleElectric “thinking cap” controls learning speed
Caffeine-fueled cram sessions are routine occurrences on any college campus. But what if there was a better, safer way to learn new or difficult material more quickly? What if “thinking caps” were...
View ArticleMini robot space surgeon to climb inside astronauts
It could one day answer the prayers of astronauts who need surgery in deep space. The miniature surgeon slides into the body through an incision in the belly button. Once inside the abdominal cavity –...
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Four years after she was told she would never walk again, Amy Paradis takes...
The first thing Amy Paradis did Monday morning was stand up. Then her lip began to tremble and she cried, and then her Mom and her trainer and everybody else in the room cried. They just broke right...
View ArticleScientists Create an Unprecedented Map of the Developing Human Brain
Scientists released the most detailed map ever made of the fetal human brain today. It contains a massive amount of information about gene activity at a crucial time in development — just as the...
View ArticleDARPA looks to biotechnology for next innovations
If you know about the history of the Internet, you know that even while Al Gore once claimed to invent it, it is the Department of Defense that can probably lay claim in earnest. The Advanced Research...
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First Wiring Diagram of Mouse Brain Created
The brain is an incredibly complex organ. The tiny mouse brain, for example, contains over 86 million neurons, each with over 1,000 different connections, clustered in different groupings. In a sense,...
View ArticleDiscovery, Science to broadcast Google moon landing live
U.S. nets Science Channel and Discovery Channel have been tapped to broadcast coverage of the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition (pictured), which will see teams attempt to land an unmanned craft on the...
View ArticleUS Navy tests robotic fire-fighters
Fire-fighting robots designed to withstand intense heat are to be tested by the US Navy this summer. The Shipboard Autonomous Fire-fighting Robot (SAFFiR) has been built by engineers at Virginia Tech...
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