QUANTUM PHYSICISTS CONFIRM SPOOKY INSTANT CORRELATIONS
Researchers in the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK have confirmed in the lab that the weird instant correlations between remote "entangled" particles are real. The experimental result has important...
View ArticleVIDEO / Bioinspired Robotics: Softer, Smarter, Safer
The Bioinspired Robotics platform at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering looks into Nature to obtain insights for the development of new robotic components that are smarter,...
View ArticleFrom Atlas To Pepper: The Coolest Robots Around
Robots are becoming more advanced and human-like as enormous amounts of money are spent on development, including by the military. As part of Sky News' series Robot Revolution, looking at how far...
View Article'Lego-Stacking' Technique Could Help Scientists Grow Human Organs
By stacking human cells together like Lego blocks, scientists have found a way to create tiny, 3D models of human tissue. The advance may enable scientists to test customized medicines before injecting...
View ArticleCompletely paralyzed man voluntarily moves his legs, scientists report
A 39-year-old man who had had been completely paralyzed for four years was able to voluntarily control his leg muscles and take thousands of steps in a "robotic exoskeleton" device during five days of...
View ArticleTransplant Surgeons Revive Hearts After Death
Transplant surgeons have started using a device that allows them to “reanimate” hearts from people who have recently died, and use the organs to save others. The “heart in a box” is a wheeled cart...
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GOOGLE’S Self-driving car prototypes are coming to public roads in austin
Our first glimpse of Google’s driverless cars came in 2012. Since then, Google has confined most of its test-drives of these vehicles to the roads outside its headquarters in Mountain View, California,...
View ArticleDramatic Advances In Super-Resolution Imaging
This video is from the high numerical aperture TIRF-SIM microscope showing 181 frames at 5-second intervals in a COS-7 cell at 37°C expressing mEmerald-CLTA (green) and mCherry-Lifeact (orange-red)....
View ArticleWhy's IBM Investing $3 Billion In Quantum Computing & Synth Brains? Trillion...
1. Silicon technology has taken humanity a long way forward from 1947 when the first transistor was invented by the Nobel prize winners Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain. 2. From smart mobile telephones...
View ArticleIBM and Xerox predict brain-controlled apps will head to smartphones
Researchers from the two tech giants claim new headsets and more powerful phones are paving the way for brain-controlled smartphone apps. Fancy calling your friends using the power of thought? One day...
View ArticleComet-exploring 'Hedgehog' robot goes for a microgravity tumble
NASA has tested two prototypes of its "Hedgehog" robot concept to see how they perform in microgravity. When you put a robot on a planet like Mars, you can plan for the terrain pretty well, with sturdy...
View ArticleAn astronaut aboard the ISS just controlled a robot on Earth
An astronaut has successfully controlled a robot on Earth with micrometer precision, despite being 400km up and travelling at speeds of 28,800km/h. Andreas Mogensen, the first Dane in space, used a...
View ArticleHighly effective seasickness treatment on the horizon
The misery of motion sickness could be ended within five to ten years thanks to a new treatment being developed by scientists. The cause of motion sickness is still a mystery but a popular theory among...
View ArticleFive-year-old boy returns to school with his amazing £60 prosthetic hand made...
A proud boy has gone back to school and shown off his latest “Spider-Man” toy - his brand new plastic hand. Cian Morris, five, showed off everything he can do with his new prosthetic hand, which was...
View ArticleWorld’s first head transplant patient schedules procedure for 2017
A man set to become the world’s first head transplant patient has scheduled the procedure for December 2017. Valery Spiridonov, 30, was diagnosed with a genetic muscle-wasting condition called...
View ArticleWill a robot take your job?
Type your job title into the search box below to find out the likelihood that it could be automated within the next two decades. About 35% of current jobs in the UK are at high risk of computerisation...
View ArticleThe singularity is closer than we think
A tipping point in the evolution of Artificial Intelligent is closer than we think. Jez Jowett, global head of creative technology at Havas Media, assesses the landscape and calls for greater debate to...
View ArticleParalyzed Man Successfully Given Prosthetic Hand That Can 'Feel'
A 28 year old man who has been paralysed has been given a new sense of touch following a new breakthrough that saw electrodes places directly into the man’s brain. The research and clinical trial has...
View ArticleFuture Transhumanist Tech May Soon Change The Definition Of Disability
Radical technologies around the world maysoon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, who...
View ArticleColonizing Mars With 3D Printed Sfero Habitats Made from Local Materials
Back in May, NASA announced their 3D Printed Habitat Challenge hoping to find some new ideas for potentially creating workable ideas to create functional and safe living spaces suitable for the surface...
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