Photonic-plasmonic microcavity for ultrasensitive protein detection
WGM sensors derive their unprecedented sensitivity from the use of high quality-factor (Q-factor) optical resonances to monitor wavelength shift signals upon binding of biomolecules or nanobeads to the...
View Article'Cyborg': Growing Artificial Tissues With Embedded Nanoscale Sensors
A multi-institutional research team has developed a method for embedding networks of biocompatible nanoscale wires within engineered tissues. These networks -- which mark the first time that...
View ArticleWater Powered Nano Rockets Can Safely Explore the Human Body
The idea of targeting a specific part of the human body with a microscopic rocket carrying a payload of medication has been tossed around for a while. And working nano-sized rockets have already been...
View ArticleNew Neo-Humanity Illustration Competition
Dear Friends! We are Extending the Deadline for the illustration competition "Neo-Humanity" so that our ever increasing number of supporters outside Russia can also take part. We are launching a new...
View Article3D-nanoprinting speed record set by Vienna University
The team is able to create sculptures as small as a grain of sand in a fraction of the time than had previously been required. To demonstrate the process the group created a model of a Formula 1 racing...
View ArticleCould These Patented Smart Gloves Be a Google Glass Peripheral?
As if Google's cyber-glasses weren't sci-fi enough, the search giant is also apparently looking into cyber-gloves. The patent "Seeing with your hand" has been granted to Google, and could be the...
View ArticleeroVironment’s Mola Robot Is Solar-Powered & Swims In Water Like The Sunfish
Mola Robot, designed by AeroVironment gathers power from solar energy to wander underwater. The concept is inspired by an ocean sunfish called Mola which is flat and thin, capable of either swimming...
View ArticleScientists Grow Sperm From Skin Cells
Researchers were able to grow sperm in a lab using skin cells. The scientists believe the technique could be used to cure male sterility in the future. Researchers from University of Pittsburgh School...
View ArticleThe Push for More Spaceborne Nuclear Russian Roulette
World Nuclear News, the information arm of the World Nuclear Association that seeks to boost the use of atomic energy, last week heralded a NASA Mars rover slated to land on Mars on Monday, the first...
View ArticleIBM's Watson Leaves Siri in the Dust
Apple's Siri may be able to keep up with Zooey Deschanel, but IBM's supercomputer Watson went toe-to-toe with Ken Jennings on Jeopardy. Now Watson's makers are trying to make him portable. "The power...
View Article"Whispering gallery" biosensor detects the smallest viruses
What do St. Paul’s Cathedral and Itzhak Perlman have to do with faster diagnosis of diseases? Quite a lot, actually. Researchers led by Professor Stephen Arnold at Polytechnic Institute of New York...
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Light-activated skeletal muscle could be used to make realistic robots
A team of bioengineers has genetically engineered skeletal muscle tissue to produce a protein that reacts to light, and plans to use it to build a robot with realistic manoeuvrability. The MIT and...
View ArticleScientists move toward rational design of artificial proteins
In the world of proteins, form defines function. Based on interactions between their constituent amino acids, proteins form specific conformations, folding and twisting into distinct, chemically...
View ArticleHarvard Scientists Create First Cyborg Flesh
Well, here we go. A bioengineering team at Harvard University has created the world's first hybrid of living cells and electronic components. Neurons, muscle cells, and blood vessels (taken from rats)...
View ArticleVideo: Micro-Robots Made of Bubbles That Are Powered by Lasers
Roboticists make robots out of all kinds of things, but Aaron Ohta at the University of Hawaii at Manoa makes them out of thin air. While we usually think of robots as mechanical, Ohta’s lab has...
View ArticleEye-controlled television unveiled at IFA trade show
Prizing AA batteries from a remote and losing controls down the back of a sofa could soon be a thing of the past, as the futuristic Gaze TV sees viewers control the set by staring at the top or bottom...
View ArticleCable-like flexible batteries
While most flexible batteries take the form of thin films, Korea-based LG Chem has now engineered flexible batteries which take the form factor of cables. The long form-factor lithium-ion battery can...
View ArticleRobot ethics: Thou shalt not kill?
Where wars were once fought in hand-to-hand combat or soldiers shooting it out, the reality of wars these days mean operators in the US can decide whether people live or die in Pakistan at the touch of...
View ArticleA Promising Start for New Anticancer Drug
Until now, researchers have applied this new drug on human glioma cell cultures in the laboratory. The results are particularly interesting for the treatment of skin cancer (melanoma) and solid tumors...
View ArticleSpinach, Popeye’s favorite food, gives solar tech some muscle
Silicon wafers coated in a protein extracted from spinach produce an electric current that is nearly 2-1/2 times higher than the previously best level reported for so-called biohybrid solar cells. The...
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