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Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)
The Baguette Incident Re-enacted according to eyewitness accounts. The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed...
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Ford Introduces Seatbelt/Air Bag Hybrid To Save Little Johnny And Grampa
Airbags have become a crucial part of the safety features in any modern car. Unfortunately, they only protect people in the front seats. To solve this problem, Ford has created a combination seat...
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Study Proves That Specialized Prosthetic Legs Grant No Advantage In Sprinting
In 2008, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) banned double amputee Oscar Pistorius from racing in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Later that same year, the ban was reversed. The...
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UK Calls For a Transforming, Laser-Toting Stealth UAV
Novel Air Concept 2 GADGETS and gizmos that could provide a front-line force for troops of the future have helped to launch the MODÕs new Defence Technology Plan. The Defence Technology Plan is the...
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Vatican Ponders the Existence Of Alien Life
After years of lagging behind in the acceptance of scientific fact, the Vatican has not only caught up, but, with a conference this week, moved far past the boundaries of modern science. Yes, 376...
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Robo-Negotiator Talks Down Armed Lunatic
Hostage situations are often described like explosive devices, as ticking time bombs waiting to go off. And just as bomb disposal units have robots to help with their job, now police negotiators have...
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Implantable Device Allows Mastectomy Patients to Regrow Own Breasts
Backing for new breast cancer drug...Library filer dated 15/06/2006 of a technician checking a mammogram. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday November 22, 2006. Restrictions on access to a...
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When the DoD’s Fantasy Projects Get Real: DARPA Monitors Student Minds, SOCOM...
020420-N-4790M-023. Three times a year, the Department of Defense (DoD) solicits help from the small business community to transform their high-tech research projects into actual, usable products....
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Doctors Equip Yorkshire Man With Cyborg Sphincter
Ged Galvin 13 NOV 2009 See SWNS story SWBIONIC: Meet Ged Galvin who sustained life-threatening injuries in an horrific crash but feels like a ''new man'' after doctors fitted him with a BIONIC BOTTOM...
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Oceans on Europa Have Enough Oxygen to Support Space Fish
converted PNM file. Thanks to a surface covered in liquid water, Jupiter’s moon Europa serves as the prime suspect for bodies in our solar system harboring extraterrestrial life. For the most part...
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NASA Robotic Rocket Plane To Survey Martian Surface
Since budget cuts and the inability to overcome problems like boredom and high radiation doses have ruled out any manned mission to Mars in the foreseeable future, NASA has shifted gears back towards...
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Robotic Arm Opens Doors For the Wheelchair-Bound
For people confined to wheelchairs, the proliferation of ramps has greatly enhanced their mobility. Unfortunately, opening doors remains an omnipresent, and frustrating, challenge. Oddly enough,...
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Study Finds Ozone Hole Repair Contributes To Global Warming, Sea Ice Melt
In 1985, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey found a giant hole in the ozone layer of Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pole. This discovery prompted a largely successful international effort...
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Sighted: A Secret US Aircraft in Afghanistan
Since April, a steady string of reports have detailed sightings of a mysterious, unidentified UAV prowling the skies above Kandahar. Grainy, Loch-Ness-Monster-like photos revealed a flying-wing-type...
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Optical Sensors in Robots’ Skin Give Them A Softer Touch
Whether they are assisting the elderly, or simply popping human skulls like ripe fruit, robots aren’t usually known for their light touch. And while this may be fine as long as they stay relegated to...
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Electromagnetic Pulse Cuts Through Steel In 200 Milliseconds
Cutting through solid steel with flaming bacon certainly has its appeal, but for large-scale industrial processes, the Fraunhofer institute thinks [electromagnetic pulses]( The post Electromagnetic...
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New Artificial Larynx Does Away With Dreaded ‘Robot Voice’
via Technology Review For decades, people with vocal cord problems could only hope to communicate in the cold, robotic voice provided by a mechanical larynx. The search for a more lifelike, and...
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Glowing Prairie Rodents Teach Us the Genetics Of Monogamy
Transgenic Prairie Voles Man, those scientists just love their glowing lab subjects. First came mice, and then recently the first primates got some jellyfish genes implanted into their DNA. Now,...
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Chinese Woman Surgically Switches Fingerprints To Evade Japanese Immigration...
When attempting to evade biometric sensors, most go with the Tyler Durden or the John Doe from Se7en route, and simply cut or burn off their fingerprints. Unfortunately, that’s a little obvious. So,...
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Has Dark Matter Finally Been Detected On Earth?
For the past six years, the CDMS, the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector, sat deep beneath the Minnesotan countryside, watching super-cooled Germanium crystals for evidence of material...
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