Scientists Discover Method of Using Cost-Effective Biocatalysts in Fuel Cells
The redox hydrogel, developed by researchers in Bochum and Mülheim, acts as a protective shield for a hydrogenase. It prevents the sensitive biocatalyst from being damaged by oxygen. Credit:...
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Concert violinist plays his instrument during BRAIN SURGERY to help doctors...
A concert violinist diagnosed with a tremor was able to help surgeons locate the exact spot in his brain to place an implant by playing his instrument during the operation. Roger Frisch, a concert...
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Brain Hacking Is Having Incredible Effects And It's Just Getting Started
With a jolt of electricity, you might be able to enter a flow state that allows you to learn a new skill twice as fast, solve problems that have mystified you for hours, or even win a sharpshooting...
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Meet HitchBOT, the Robot Hitchhiking Across Canada
Canadians who are used to seeing mountains, lakes and other beautiful scenery across their country have had a surprise addition to the landscape this summer, a hitchhiking robot with a “yard sale...
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'Bionic Man' Says We Could All Want Artificial Limbs In The Future
Bertolt Meyer was born without a lower left arm. He started wearing his first prosthesis, or artificial arm, when he was 3 months old. Now at age 37, Meyer wears the futuristic i-limb — a high-tech...
View ArticleNanotechnology keeps clothes dry and stain free
It can’t get wet and will not stain. That’s the promise Aamir Patel, CEO of Silic, is making buyers of his new shirts. A Silicon Valley start up is combining nanotechnology and fashion to produce...
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Solar energy that doesn't block the view
A team of researchers at Michigan State University has developed a new type of solar concentrator that when placed over a window creates solar energy while allowing people to actually see through the...
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FarmBot: An Open Source 3D Farming Printer That Aims to Create Food For Everyone
When most of us think of 3D printers, we typically imagine the desktop machines that are used for creating small plastic objects, or the larger scale industrial level machines used for prototyping, and...
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The Prospects for the Development of Clean Fuels Are Improving
The structure of the manganese cluster as it is found in nature and prior to O-O bond formation. In the background, the water-splitting cycle with the intermediate states S0 to S4. Diagram: MPI for...
View ArticleHoverbike aims to take aviation to a new level (video)
Deep in the English countryside, aeronautical engineers are perfecting a new generation of aerial drone. With increased stability and manoeuvrability, and able to carry a much heavier payload… it...
View ArticleGraphene-treated rubber bands used as inexpensive body motion sensors
Graphene is a cutting-edge wonder material, used in applications ranging from solar cells to supercapacitors. Rubber bands, on the other hand ... well, they're not so high-tech. By combining the one...
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3D-printed implants infused with medicine to enable more effective drug delivery
A great strength of 3D-printing in the field of medicine is the ability to provide low-cost, personalized implants molded to a patient's anatomy. Researchers from Louisiana Tech University have now...
View ArticleGoogle's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank
GOOGLE is building the largest store of knowledge in human history – and it's doing so without any human help. Instead, Knowledge Vault autonomously gathers and merges information from across the web...
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Pediatric surgical robot inspired by ISS remote manipulator arm
Robots and space technology may soon be saving children's lives thanks to KidsArm, a robotic arm designed for delicate pediatric surgery (Photo: MDA and CIGITI) The technology that built (and...
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3D Graphtech Industries Teams With Australia’s CSIRO to Research Graphene 3D...
Just a few days ago we reported on a massive research and development effort under way in Canada around the 3D printing of graphene, by a company called Grafoid. Graphene, which is composed of a single...
View ArticleA ring that reads text for the blind
STORY: Meng Ee Wong is visually impaired and with the help of a new device called the "finger reader," hes' reading a book in a whole new way. (SOUNDBITE) (English) VISUALLY IMPAIRED PROFESSOR WONG...
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Robotics: How machines see the world
Autonomous bots like self-driving cars don’t see the world like us. Frank Swain discovers why this could be a problem. A system that allows the exterior of aircraft to "feel" damage or injury in a way...
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Scientists grow an organ in an animal from cells created in lab
Scientists have grown a fully functional organ from transplanted laboratory-created cells in a living animal for the first time. They grew a working thymus - an important organ that supplies the body...
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Air HES system to collect water and generate electricity from the clouds
Using a tethered airship floating high up among the clouds, the Air HES concept is designed to yield both clean water and electricity by harvesting and condensing water vapor, which it uses to spin up...
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Do we live in a 2-D hologram? Experiment will test the nature of the universe
A Fermilab scientist works on the laser beams at the heart of the Holometer experiment. The Holometer will use twin laser interferometers to test whether the universe is a 2-D hologram.U.S. Department...
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