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First Internet-Enabled Undersea Observatory Now Operational
More people have been to the Moon than to the deepest parts of the ocean, and scientists have more detailed maps of the surface of Mars than they do of much of the ocean floor. That glaring lack of...
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German Zoo’s Bears Struck With Mystery Baldness
via National Geographic Countless hours wasted watching Locked Up have taught me that prison changes a man. And based on developments in a zoo in Leipzig, Germany, it seems like captivity changes a...
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Darpa’s Cyborg Insect Spies, Now Nuclear-Powered
via Wired's Danger Room When you write for Popular Science, it’s easy to become desensitized to wild and crazy future tech. To wit: When I first heard that Darpa wanted to develop cyborg insects to...
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Robovie-II, the Robot That Helps You Buy Groceries
The ease and variety of online shopping enabled by the first dot-com explosion cast technology as the killer of in-store retail. But in Japan, with its aging population and unique consumer culture,...
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Details Of Brain-Implanted Speech Synthesizer For Locked-In Syndrome Revealed...
Five years after a 1999 car crash left Eric Ramsey a victim of locked-in syndrome–essentially a conscious mind trapped inside a completely unresponsive body, unable even to blink–he soon found himself...
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Artificial Red Blood Cells To Aid Drug Delivery, Imaging
Even though they look like regular blood cells, these are actually made from synthetic, biodegradable polymers. via Technology Review Blood cells are great for transporting materials through the body...
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First Commercial 3-D Bioprinter Fabricates Organs To Order
The problem with organ transplants is that the organ has to come from someone else. Since most people rather fancy their hearts and lungs, getting any organ other than a kidney usually requires the...
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Video: Simulation Renders Entire Known Universe
Everyone loves a good road movie, whether it’s Hope and Crosby or Fonda and Hopper. But the scope of those films pales in comparison to the ground covered by the Hayden Planetarium’s new video, The...
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Kepler Telescope Spots Hotter, Weirder Bodies Than Ever Before Seen (In The...
Table Top model of the Kepler Telescope: A Mission in search of Habitable Planets around other stars. NASA Ames photographer Tom Trower. Kepler’s Planetary Discoveries It’s been less than a year since...
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Magnetic Ink Turns Any Paper Into Possible Nanomachine
It seems like everyone is trying to make nanomachines these days, usually through some expensive procedure like carving them out of an exotic material with a laser. In an effort to produce cheaper...
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Unwanted Side Effect: Cocaine Vaccine Leads Addicts to Take 10 Times More...
Over the last decade, the advances in neuroscience that led doctors to view addiction as a disease, rather than a desire or personal failing, raised the natural question of whether or not addicts...
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Google Earth Images Confirm Mythological Meteor Impact
Australian Aborigine mythology begins in a period known as the “dream time”, before the emergence of humanity. Many stories about the dream time include legends about stars, gods, or rocks falling...
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NASA Scientists Classify the Time Before Earth Existed: the Chaotian Era
Moon Formation In The Late Hadean Period. courtesy of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum The geological time scale, with its familiar Cretaceous, Cambrian, and Eocene periods, works great as a...
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8 Percent of Human Genome Was Inserted By Virus, and May Cause Schizophrenia
The rise of psychopharmacology has led doctors to not only treat mental illnesses like regular diseases, but think of them as such as well. Turns out, schizophrenia may be more than just a disease in...
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DARPA Spends $51 Million On Matrix-Like Cyber War Firing Range
As any soldier will tell you, consistent and realistic drill forms the foundation of any successful military action. But whereas an infantryman can hone his aim at a firing range, America’s Internet...
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Before and After Satellite Imagery of Earthquake-Ravaged Haiti Available on...
Port au Prince cathedral, once famous for it's rose window, felled by the earthquake. courtesy of Google Earth and GeoEye To help highlight the immense destruction that befell Haiti as a result of the...
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Cocaine Found In Space Shuttle Hangar
Jim Grossmann, courtesy of NASA Apparently, outer space isn’t high enough for some folks over at NASA. Earlier today, NASA confirmed that a small baggie of cocaine was found in the hangar housing the...
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Israel Developing Semi-Lethal Sonic Cannon To Control Rioters
A desert people have developed a new weapon that uses sound instead of bullets. But this time, it will be used to control crowds instead of fighting giant worms or devious members of House Harkonnen....
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First Artificial Muscles Used to Control Eyelids
For victims of strokes, serious face injuries, or degenerative muscular diseases, losing the ability to blink threatens to compound their condition with corneal ulcers, or even eventual blindness. To...
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Siftables, the Amazing Computerized Toy Blocks, Are Coming To a Store Near...
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sifteo Blocks Sifteo, makers of Siftables, the ingenious cookie-sized computer blocks...
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