Japan is building a robot that can play baseball
A baseball player needs to be able to do quite a few things: throwing the ball, batting, fielding, even running really fast. A human can do all of these things, because we're pretty great, but a robot?...
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Floating surf park envisioned for Melbourne
Melbourne may soon receive a new choice location to surf, courtesy of local firm Damian Rogers Architecture and engineering giant Arup. The two companies recently unveiled a concept floating surf park...
View ArticleComet Landing 2014: Rosetta Probe Philae Discovers Organic Molecules: Report
The Philae space probe was powered down earlier than expected, but not before an instrument discovered an organic compound that was first detected in the comet’s atmosphere, the Wall Street Journal...
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Drone delivery nets could be the mailboxes of the future
With drone technology progressing so quickly, it may not be too long before they start dropping packages at our doorsteps. But proposals for how the vehicles can safely navigate fences, pets and small...
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New Horizons probe is ready for wake-up call as it approaches Pluto
For eight years, a Pluto-bound spacecraft has been snoozing through space as it drifts nearly three billion miles (4.8 billion km) from Earth. But it will soon be time to wake up the New Horizons probe...
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Martin Jetpack closer to takeoff in first responder applications
Last year's redesign of the long-awaited Martin Jetpack was accompanied by plans to begin commercial sales in 2014, starting with emergency response services and individual sales to follow thereafter....
View ArticleWhat Defines Your Identity? Not Your Memories But Your Moral Decisions.
Who are you and what are you doing here? It is no mistake that the philosopher and the amnesiac ask this very question. Who we are in our essence has a great deal to do with how people identify us in...
View ArticleSick Children Can Use Robot Avatar to Avoid Missing School (video)
A new, high-tech approach will allow sick kids to go to school without ever leaving their bedrooms.
View ArticleWorld's First Zero-Gravity 3D Printer Installed on Space Station
It may not be a "Star Trek" replicator, but the first zero-gravity 3D printer is set up and ready for action on the International Space Station. Station commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore of NASA...
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How Supercomputing Is Cracking The Mysteries Of Human Origins
A Texas supercomputer capable of 9.6 quadrillion operations per second has solved a thorny problem in genetics, by looking at the bones of a young boy who died 24,000 years ago in Mal’ta in...
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Tanaka to Exhibit World’s First Successful Platinum-Based Metallic Glass...
Tokyo-based Tanaka Holding announced on November 18 that, through Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo, they have become the world’s first company to succeed in the development and formation of platinum-based...
View ArticleSKEYE Nano Drone
Drones are definitely one of the most fun tech inventions of recent times, but sadly, most have to stay in the loft when the weather is miserable — they’re just too big. In contrast, the SKEYE Nano...
View ArticleRenewable energy 'simply WON'T WORK': Top Google engineers
Comment Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human race...
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Will these self-replicating robots might make it easier to explore Mars
A robot that can print itself new 'body' parts and adapt to environments has been made. In a video, the machine is shown struggling - but succeeding - to crawl along the ground after having one of its...
View ArticleImagination, reality flow in opposite directions in the brain
As real as that daydream may seem, its path through your brain runs opposite reality. Aiming to discern discrete neural circuits, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have tracked...
View ArticleInvisible shield found thousands of miles above Earth blocks 'killer electrons'
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called "killer electrons," which whip around the planet at near-light...
View ArticleAre Telepathy Experiments Stunts or Science?
Two scientific teams this year patched together some well-known technologies to directly exchange information between human brains. The projects, in the U.S. and Europe, appear to represent the first...
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How Elon Musk's terror of extinction serves the human race
This month, Elon Musk reminded us once again why he's the most entertaining executive alive. In an online comment that's since been deleted, Musk wrote about his fears concerning artificial...
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New 2D Materials Exhibit Exotic Quantum Properties
This diagram illustrates the concept behind the MIT team’s vision of a new kind of electronic device based on 2-D materials. The 2-D material is at the middle of a layered “sandwich,” with layers of...
View ArticleBrain researchers pinpoint gateway to human memory
The human brain continuously collects information. However, we have only basic knowledge of how new experiences are converted into lasting memories. Now, an international team led by researchers of the...
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