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Engineers Develop Surfaces That Can Actively Control How Fluids or Particles...
Photo shows a water droplet sitting on a ferrofluid-impregnated surface, which has cloaked the droplet with a very thin layer. Image courtesy of the researchers. Using a microtextured surface, with...
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Rosetta spacecraft arrives at comet destination
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 3 August from a distance of 285 km. The image resolution is 5.3 metres/pixel. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team...
View ArticleSparkling Swarovski headpiece changes colour with brain activity
Self-described alchemist Lauren Bowker of London-based fashion house The Unseen isn't interested in the mundane. Her collections are unique, infused with specially created chemical concoctions that...
View ArticleIBM's Watson: Cognitive or Sentient?
The singularity is near! Our smart phones and laptops will one day seem like the gadget equivalent of the horse-and-buggy compared to the machines we will rely on in the future. Jon Iwata, Senior VP of...
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Stacking Cells Could Make Solar as Cheap as Natural Gas
When experts talk about future solar cells, they usually bring up exotic materials and physical phenomena. In the short term, however, a much simpler approach—stacking different semiconducting...
View ArticleCould your brain be reprogrammed to work better?
Researchers from The University of Western Australia have shown that electromagnetic stimulation can alter brain organisation, which may make your brain work better. In results from a study published...
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Researchers Combine Ideas of 3D Printing With Molecular Self-assembly – Is...
What’s the ultimate extension of 3D printing technology? Where could 3D printing take us in the future? For me, I believe that eventually, whether it’s in my lifetime or not, we will have...
View ArticleRobot folds itself up and walks away: Demonstrates potential for...
A team from Harvard's Wyss Institute, Harvard's SEAS, and MIT built an autonomous robot that starts out as a single composite sheet programmed to fold itself into a complex shape and crawl away without...
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Controlled Synthesis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
On a Platinum surface, the planar hydrocarbon precursor folds into an end cap, that in turn acts as seed for the growth of a well-defined (6,6) carbon nanotube. A new study details how researchers from...
View ArticleDesktop-sized laser supercomputers could be coming by 2020
Small, eco-friendly optical supercomputers may soon be crunching quadrillions of calculations per second (exaflops) if a company called Optalysys has its way. It claims to be months away from...
View ArticleMapping a live mouse’s brain with lasers
No need for surgery—chemists from Stanford University have come up with a way to map the brain using carbon nanotubes and lasers, Stanford News reports. The researchers injected the water-soluble...
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New Research Reveals Tidal Heating in the Deepest Part of the Lunar Mantle
In a newly published study, scientists reveal that there is an extremely soft layer deep inside the Moon and that heat is effectively generated in the layer by the gravity of the Earth. An...
View ArticleBioengineers create functional 3-D brain-like tissue: Tissue kept alive for...
Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain and that can be kept alive in the lab for more than two...
View ArticleNeuroprosthetics of the mind: robots for our brain
Could we use robots, instead of medicines, to cure mental illnesses? Olaf Blanke explains how. Olaf Blanke is founding director of the Center for Neuroprosthetics, Bertarelli Foundation Chair in...
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Silicon Valley Hotel Unveils World's First Robot Bellhop
A hotel chain in Silicon Valley has unveiled Botlr, the world’s first robot butler, which will work as a bellhop shuttling items between the hotel lobby and guests’ rooms. Aloft Hotels in Cupertino,...
View ArticleThe Most Awesome Robots (until 2014)
Will robots take over the world one day in your opinion?(2014-2015)The next generation of NAO RobotHonda Asimo (latest version)Paul the drawing robotBoston Dynamics robots: Wild Cat robot, Petman...
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Materials Scientists Turn Metal Into Glass
In a newly published study, University of Pittsburgh researchers report an experimental approach to the formation of monatomic metallic glasses through ultrafast liquid quenching. a, TEM image of two...
View Article3D silk doughnut opens window on brain injury
Yum, yum... not. Believe it or not, the latest tool to explore the brain is a silk doughnut. Researchers have several lifelike 3D models of the brain at their fingertips, but they mimic the brain's...
View ArticleOrgans-on-Chips emulate human organs, could replace animals in tests
The search for more efficient tests of pharmaceuticals without animal models is taking a stride forward, with a new technology being developed in the US called Organs-on-Chips. The new miniature...
View ArticleA self-organizing thousand-robot swarm
Just as single cells can assemble into complex multicellular organisms, the individual Kilobots can follow simple rules to autonomously assemble into predetermined shapes. The vast scale of this swarm...
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