A Surveilliance Drone That Can Fit Inside A Soldier's Pocket
U.S. Army engineers are working on a mini aerial surveillance drone for troops working in challenging environments. Once deployed, the scifi-like device could allow soldiers to get a bird's-eye view of...
View ArticleNew tools help neuroscientists analyze 'big data'
In an age of "big data," a single computer cannot always find the solution a user wants. Computational tasks must instead be distributed across a cluster of computers that analyze a massive data set...
View ArticleNeuroscientists Inhibit Muscle Contractions by Shining Light on Spinal Cord...
In a newly published study, MIT neuroscientists show that they can control muscle movement by shining light on spinal cord neurons in mice. For the first time, MIT neuroscientists have shown they can...
View ArticleAmazon Launches A 3D Printing Store With Customizable Goods
Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc will offer 3D printing services that allow customers to customize and build earrings, bobble head toys and other items from third-party sellers using a new personalization...
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Printing the metals of the future
3-D printers can create all kinds of things, from eyeglasses to implantable medical devices, straight from a computer model and without the need for molds. But for making spacecraft, engineers...
View ArticleEindhoven University of Technology wins 2014 robot soccer World Cup
The World Cup may have finished a few weeks ago, but there was another one played in Brazil just last week. The annual RoboCup competition was held in João Pessoa, including the robot soccer World Cup....
View ArticleFlexible, Printed Batteries for Wearable Devices
A California startup is developing flexible, rechargeable batteries that can be printed cheaply on commonly used industrial screen printers. Imprint Energy, of Alameda, California, has been testing its...
View ArticleThe Quantum Cheshire Cat: Can neutrons be located at a different place than...
Can neutrons be located at a different place than their own spin? A quantum experiment, carried out by a team of researchers from the Vienna University of Technology, demonstrates a new kind of quantum...
View ArticleLocal Motors to 3D Print Furniture For Their Tech Shop and Labs
You all have probably heard about the Phoenix, AZ based company Local Motors. They plan to 3D print an entire car at this year’s International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago. They are doing...
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GEEK PICNIC / Technology, Science and Art Festival / 9-10 August, 2014
GEEK PICNIC Technology, Science and Art Festival 9-10 August, 2014 One of the major annual open-air events will be held again on the Elagin Island in St. Petersburg on 9-10 August, 2014. This time the...
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Why is science fiction so hard to define?
Time Out, the weekly listings magazine, recently ranked the 100 best sci-fi movies of all time. They did it by polling 150 “leading sci-fi experts, filmmakers, science fiction writers, film critics and...
View ArticleCould This New Competition Replace The Turing Test?
Nuance Communications has announced a new annual competition to develop artificially intelligent agents capable of solving the "Winograd Schema Challenge", a possible alternative to the Turing Test —...
View Article3D Systems Will Enter The Realm of Virtual Reality With Acquisition of...
There are so many intersections between 3D printing and medicine. We have seen this in the countless stories we have covered over the past six months, related to anything from 3D printed prosthetics...
View ArticleMan 3D Prints a Working DC Motor
The question used to be, “What can you print with a 3D printer?”. The open source initiative in the 3D printing space has brought forth literally hundreds of thousands of unique and innovative designs....
View ArticleNew mapping approach lets scientists zoom in and out as the brain processes...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have mapped the sound-processing part of the mouse brain in a way that keeps both the proverbial forest and the trees in view. Their imaging technique allows zooming in and...
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Upgrade Your Brain: Liquid Hard Drive Implants Could Increase Intellect
Researchers have discovered a novel way of storing data in liquid, potentially paving the way for biocompatible brain implants. Storing photos, documents and other files in brain-implantable liquid...
View ArticleGoogle Translate's Lead Scientist Is Going to Help Conquer Death
Google, it turns out, doesn't have a monopoly on the ambitious goal to conquer death. In fact, the tech giant just lost one of its top computer scientists to a genetics startup called Human Longevity,...
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MIT to test making oxygen on Mars
Oxygen is such an abundant resource on Earth that we rarely think about it unless we get locked in a cupboard. However, for space engineers, the question of how to get enough of the vital gas is...
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The First Man-Made Biological Leaf Turns Light and Water Into Oxygen
If humanity hopes to realize its dreams of exploring the stars, we're going to need to find ways to recreate life on Earth aboard a spaceship. Simply stockpiling enough vital supplies isn't going to...
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Finding quantum lines of desire
Kater Murch (right), assistant professor of physics, and junior Chris Munley work with the equipment that can map a quantum device’s trajectory between two points in quantum state space, a feat until...
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