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Peeking into the brain's filing system
Storing information so that you can easily find it again is a challenge. From purposefully messy desks to indexed filing cabinets, we all have our preferred systems. How does it happen inside our...
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Researchers observe and control light wakes for the first time
This is an artistic rendition of the superluminal running wave of charge that excites the surface plasmon wakes. Credit: Daniel Wintz, Patrice Genevet, and Antonio Ambrosio. When a duck paddles across...
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New Horizons Pluto Probe Suffers a Glitch
NASA's New Horizon space probe is on track to make a scheduled approach to Pluto following a heart-stopping glitch on Saturday when the spacecraft briefly cut communications with Earth. The space...
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Autonomous taxis would deliver significant environmental and economic benefits
News Center Autonomous Taxis Would Deliver Significant Environmental and Economic Benefits New Berkeley Lab study finds lower greenhouse gas emissions on per-mile basis for driverless cars deployed as...
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EPFL's CleanSpace One satellite will "eat" space junk
CleanSpace One uses its net to envelope the SwissCube satellite Three years ago, Swiss research institute EPFL announced its plans to build a spacecraft that could grab orbital debris and then carry...
View ArticleWill We Really Be Able To Model The Entire Human Brain Within 10 Years?...
A video has been doing the rounds on Twitter, in which a neuroscience lab manager gives the shocking inside story on how the €1 Billion Human Brain Project really received its funding: Alright,...
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Gene therapy restores hearing in deaf mice
Sensory hair cells in the cochlea of a Beethoven mouse treated with TMC2 gene therapy. In this confocal microscopy image, microvilli are shown in red and cell bodies in green. The human ear has about...
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LED lightbulbs create wireless networks wherever they are installed
Engineers have devised a method of allowing almost any device fitted with standard LEDs to communicate with other equipment with similar lights (Credit: Shutterstock) Various researchers have created...
View ArticleThe Strange Future of Hybrid Thinking, According to Google’s Director of...
Ray Kurzweil is a fascinating man. He's an author, a computer scientist, an inventor, and he's currently serving as a Director of Engineering at Google. That's a big position for anyone to fill, seeing...
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Chinese Company Introduces an Affordable 3D Printed Robot That Aids The Elderly
Two technologies which are sure to lead the way to a brighter future, as well as boatloads of profits for those developing them, are 3D printing and robotics. These two industries have the potential to...
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Elektra One Solar becomes first solar-electric aircraft to cross the Alps in...
It's been quite a month for electric aircraft. First, the Solar Impulse 2 broke distance and duration records when it flew from Japan to Hawaii. Then, two competing teams both claimed to have made the...
View ArticleA robot that hops like a frog
We’ve got robots that look like people—now we have one that looks like a frog. Or at least hops like one. Using 3D printers, roboticists have designed a three-legged mechanical critter with a squishy...
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New Horizons reveals new Pluto mysteries
NASA has released more findings from the New Horizons Pluto probe; revealing new discoveries and mysteries about the dwarf planet and its moons. The images and instrument readings taken before and...
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Massless particle discovery could radically accelerate electronics
Scientists have discovered the Weyl fermion. A particle theorized more than 85 years ago, it is claimed to be able to create completely massless electrons and may open up whole new areas of high-speed...
View ArticleResearcher models bacteria-controlled robots
The colonies of bacteria living on your body do more than help you digest food. According to models created by researchers from Virginia Tech, bacteria could control an inanimate host like a robot....
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Robotic swans designed to look nice ... and to monitor water quality
If you're enjoying a serene natural area, you might not appreciate seeing a very techy-looking pollution-hunting robot putting along the surface. That's why scientists at the National University of...
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Age-related macular degeneration patient receives bionic eye transplant
The 80-year-old Raymond Flynn was the first to receive the implant for AMD treatment (Credit: Second Sight) You might remember the Argus II implant from when it first gained market approval in the US...
View ArticleResearchers pinpoint where the brain unites our eyes' double vision
If you have two working eyes, you are live streaming two images of the world into your brain. Your brain combines the two to produce a view of the world that appears as though you had a single eye --...
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New "smart window" material selectively blocks light and/or heat
Image of windows treated with a nanocrystal material that can selectively block light and/or heat to improve energy efficiency (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) In an effort to improve...
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Will Mind Transfer Ever Happen?
It’s tempting to imagine the brain as a biological computer, with the tissue as hardware and electrical activity as software. If that were the case, mind transference might be technically feasible...
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