Brain wave may be used to detect what people have seen, recognize
Brain activity can be used to tell whether someone recognizes details they encountered in normal, daily life, which may have implications for criminal investigations and use in courtrooms, new research...
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Revolutionary? Aurora Labs Reveals Their S1 Metal 3D Printer For Under $4,000
After reading the title of this article, many of you probably are thinking that this post must be some kind of extremely early April Fools joke. After all, most laser sintering machines, which work...
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Clear skies on exo-Neptune: Smallest exoplanet ever found to have water vapor
Artist Illustration showing skies on planet HAT-P-11b.Credit: Image courtesy of ESA/Hubble Information Centre Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space...
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MIT's improved all-liquid battery could make renewable energy more competitive
By playing around with materials, researchers have reduced the operating temperature of an all-liquid battery to 450-500° C (842-932° F) (Image: Felice Frankel) Our ability to store energy has proven...
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229 Newly Designed Prosthetic Hands are 3D Printed by Volunteers
Every time I write a story about the volunteer group e-NABLE, I get goosebumps running down my spine, and tears begin forming in my eyes. It’s stories like these that make writing about 3D printing...
View ArticleMoonwalking Astronauts Can Move Surprisingly Fast
The spacesuits worn by Apollo astronauts such as Buzz Aldrin were designed to optimize life support, not mobility. Newly designed suits may allow future moonwalkers to move faster on the lunar...
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Japan Prepares to Make 3D Printed Topographic Maps Available for the Blind
3D printing has made navigating a world of vague light forms or, oftentimes, complete darkness more manageable. 3D printed Braille books, some of which include raised imagery as with story and school...
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On the road to artificial photosynthesis: Study reveals key catalytic factors...
This TEM shows gold–copper bimetallic nanoparticles used as catalysts for the reduction of carbon dioxide, a key reaction for artificial photosynthesis.Credit: Image courtesy of Peidong Yang group,...
View ArticleIndia's Mars triumph signals a rising space power
"There is nothing symbolic about this," says Sundaram Ramakrishnan of theIndian Space Research Organisation. The country's success in putting its Mars Orbiter Mission(MOM) into orbit around the Red...
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Israeli Engineer 3D Prints Versatile Hexapod Robot named ‘Billy’
t’s really amazing how creative people are getting in combining the near infinite manufacturing capabilities that 3D printing has to offer with the DIY open-source physical computing platform, Arduino,...
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'Cloaking' device uses ordinary lenses to hide objects across range of angles
Doctoral student Joseph Choi is pictured with a a multidirectional `perfect paraxial’ cloak using 4 lenses. Credit: Image courtesy of University of Rochester Inspired perhaps by Harry Potter's...
View ArticleHow Human-Robot Teamwork Will Upend Manufacturing
Sometime in the next couple of years, if everything goes to plan, workers at BMW’s manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, will be introduced to an unusual new teammate—a robot arm that...
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PrintAlive 3D bioprinter creates on-demand skin grafts for burn victims
While most are familiar with the potential for 3D printers to pump out plastic odds and ends for around the home, the technology also has far-reaching applications in the medical field. Research is...
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With This 3D Printed Brain, I Thee Wed :-)
Interestingly enough, there have been several known weddings or wedding engagements which have relied heavily on 3D printing. Whether it’s a personalized 3D printed engagement ring, a 3D printed...
View ArticleMind expanding: 7 ways to fine-tune your brain
The human mind is the most complex information processing system we know. It has all sorts of useful design features but also many glitches and weaknesses. The problem is, it doesn't come with a user's...
View Article3D printing's future is the high street, not the home
IF YOU print it, they will come. Last summer, two surfers wanted to film themselves in the waves, so they headed over to The UPS Store. The guys asked the store to 3D-print a prototype of their idea –...
View ArticleWhat It Will Take for Computers to Be Conscious
Is a worm conscious? How about a bumblebee? Does a computer that can play chess “feel” anything? To Christof Koch, chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, the...
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World's first solar battery claimed to "run on light and air"
Electron microscope images of the nanometer-sized rods of titanium dioxide that cover the surface of a piece of titanium gauze, allowing air to enter the battery to recharge it while also gathering...
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Time Travel Could Become Reality Sooner Than You Think
According to scientists photons can travel through time. They already have simulated directing quantum light particles to the past for the first time in the history. University of Queensland scientists...
View ArticleThe greatest brain myth there ever was?
Luc Besson’s latest sci-fi romp, Lucy, is based on the premise that the average person only uses 10% of their brain. This brain-myth has been fodder for books and movies for decades and is a...
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