Artificial intelligence helps detect subtle differences in mutant worms
Research into the genetic factors behind certain disease mechanisms, illness progression, and response to new drugs is frequently carried out using tiny multicellular animals such as nematodes, fruit...
View ArticleNASA Awards Boeing, SpaceX & Sierra Nevada Corp. With Contracts For Space...
If all goes according to plan over the next five years, NASA will no longer have to rely on Russia to get Americans to the International Space Station. The space agency announced on Friday that it has...
View ArticlePatterning defect-free nanocrystal films with nanometer resolution
Films made of semiconductor nanocrystals — tiny crystals measuring just a few billionths of a meter across — are seen as a promising new material for a wide range of applications. Nanocrystals could be...
View ArticleStudy Reveals the Brain's Mysterious Switchboard Operator
A mysterious region deep in the human brain could be where we sort through the onslaught of stimuli from the outside world and focus on the information most important to our behavior and survival,...
View ArticleNew, Stonger Flexible Aerogels Destined for Clothing, Space Applications
NASA scientists have created stronger types of aerogels that could eventually be used for a broad spectrum of applications, such as clothing, home insulation and even in space. Mary Ann B. Meador,...
View ArticleSuper-ageing 80-year-olds have brains '30 years younger'
Now scientists have discovered that they are among a group of octogenarian “super-agers” who have brains like people 30 years younger. MRI scans have found that some people in their eighties have more...
View ArticleMIT-developed 'microthrusters' could propel small satellites
A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device, designed by Paulo Lozano, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, bears little...
View ArticleScottish-made robots can repair world’s coral reefs, say scientists
Scottish scientists are developing a swarm of intelligent robots to save coral reefs. A team of “coralbots”, each individually working to simple rules, will piece together damaged bits of coral,...
View ArticleAustralian Academic Begs The World To Stop Making ‘Killer Robots’
In the same way that school kids are urged not to do drugs and university students are urged not to have sex (who are they even kidding), an Australian ethicist has urged the international community to...
View ArticleUC Riverside Research Enables Nano Engineered Applications to Develop...
Nano Engineered Applications, a company of Innovation Economy, has developed an ‘electronic nose’ prototype that is capable of detecting trace amounts of hazardous airborne substances based on a work...
View ArticleThe Search for Immortality
During ancient times, alchemists sought the elixir of life; a legendary potion believed to bestow eternal life upon its drinker. Alchemy has since given way to modern-day chemistry, but the quest for...
View ArticleIowa research team investigating the roots of human self-awareness
Ancient Greek philosophers considered the ability to “know thyself” as the pinnacle of humanity. Now, thousands of years later, neuroscientists are trying to decipher precisely how the human brain...
View ArticleNow, a robot that can understand emotions
A robot being developed in Finlandwill be capable of recognising human emotionsand understanding speech and gestures. Being created at the University of Oulu in Finland, the technology could prove...
View ArticleRussian brains behind closest ever AI attempt
Russian scientists are closer than they have ever been to creating artificial intelligence. The program called “Eugene” has almost passed the famous Turing test, which checks a machine’s ability to...
View ArticleA Robot Helps Listen In on Brain Cell Chatter
Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann received the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1991 for their development of the patch-clamp technique, which records currents coursing through single ion channels...
View ArticleScientists aim to predict the future with $1 billion Earth simulator
Imagine what would happen if you had a computer program that could take in data from sensors everywhere on Earth and then plug that data into a detailed simulation for the entire Earth all at once. If...
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Chemical internet discovers new ways to make drugs
LINKING computers together to form a vast global network transformed computing - and then the world. Now, by cramming nearly 250 years’ worth of chemical knowledge into a single software package, a...
View Article2D materials exposed to light could transform into 3D objects
A research team led by North Carolina State University (NC State) is developing methods to create 2D materials capable of folding themselves into 3D objects when exposed to light. The work, funded by a...
View ArticleFuture Memory: Ferroelectric Materials Could Bring Down Cost of Cloud Computing
A new class of organic materials developed at Northwestern University boasts a very attractive but elusive property: ferroelectricity. The crystalline materials also have a great memory, which could be...
View ArticleStudy: You Can Learn While You Sleep via Scent
There is a classic classroom image that we are all too familiar with – the sleeping student. From elementary school, to middle, to high and beyond there is always at least one student who can be seen...
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