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Moscow’s Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a Mastery of the...
For every 300 Muscovites, there’s a stray dog wandering the streets of Russia’s capital. And according to Andrei Poyarkov, a researcher at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, the...
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Water Purification Chemical Uses Visible, Not UV, Light To Kill Bacteria
Shang, et al. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, via Technology Review The World Health Organization estimates that around one sixth of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Since...
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Robots Display Predator-Prey Co-Evolution, Evolve Better Homing Techniques
via Science Blogs A Map Of Robot Evolution From Floreano and Keller, 2010: “1) The robots have a neural network with the strength of connections between neurons determining their behaviour as a...
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Magnetoscope Monitor Measures Heart’s Magnetic Field to Detect Problems Early
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council While the ECG machine, whose steady beep and jagged line TV medical dramas long ago planted into the popular imagination, remains the most common...
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DARPA Gives $32 Million For A Bigger Big Dog From Boston Dynamics
After years of development and several creepy videos, Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog robot is scheduled to get bigger. Working off a $32 million request from DARPA and the Marine Corps, Boston Dynamics has...
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Compound LJ001 Acts Like Antibiotic Against Viruses
via China Daily Unlike antibiotics, which kill many different types of bacteria, antiviral drugs for the most part need to target individual, specific viruses. A drug that attacks a multitude of...
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Insulin Can Now Be Made Cheaply from Flowers
In 1922, Canadian scientists isolated insulin for the first time. Now, over 80 years later, our neighbors to the north are helping diabetics again by devising the cheapest way yet to produce insulin....
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Carbon Crystals Harder Than Diamond Found In Finnish Meteorite
Diamond may remain the preferred material for wedding rings, Lil’ Wayne’s birthday gifts, and Damien Hirst sculptures, but it looks like girls’ best friend will have to relinquish its title as the...
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Say Hello to Robonaut2, NASA’s Android Space Explorer of the Future
With the news that the White House has canceled the Constellation Program, NASA seems to be moving out of the human space flight business. However, the unveiling of a next-generation robot astronaut...
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Brain Scan Shows Vegetative Patient Responding To Yes-or-No Questions
These brain scans show activity in response to a yes or no question. The similarity in activity between the conscious control subject and the supposedly brain dead patient call into question the...
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Superinsulating Aerogels Arrive on Home Insulation Market At Last
Aspen Aerogels, via CNET Over 70 years ago, scientists invented aerogel, the least dense solid known to man, and an insulator four times more efficient than fiberglass or foam. Famously, according to...
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Physicists Prove Teleportation of Energy Is Possible
Over five years ago, scientists succeeded in teleporting information. Unfortunately, the advance failed to bring us any closer to the Star Trek future we all dream of. Now, researchers in Japan have...
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This Week, Cybersecurity Efforts Advance on Several Fronts
For cybersecurity wonks who see Chinese agents or al Qaeda hackers lurking behind every email from a Nigerian prince, this was one hell of a busy week. With fallout continuing from the recent attack...
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Marijuana Research Offers New Hope For Male Birth Control Pill
The male birth control pill has lingered for years tantalizingly just out of reach, in the realm where rumor meets science. Recently developed hormonal and mechanical contraceptives never found an...
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Video: What Would You See As You Plummet Into a Black Hole?
By definition, one can’t see a black hole itself, only its effect on the light of intervening stars. And without some serious equipment, even that’s a tall order. Luckily for all us amateur...
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Genetically Engineered Pig Lung Successfully Oxygenates Human Blood, Paving...
With the world facing an organ shortage so serious that the majority of potential transplant recipients die while on waiting lists, doctors have looked to similarly sized animal organs as a potential...
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Meat the iPhone Sausage Stylus
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › It’s easy to see how Apple might have overlooked this, what with their headquarters...
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Video: Easy Russian DIY Car-to-Tank Conversion Kit
As the Northeast and South brace for yet another day of record snow fall, thousands of Americans are struggling with ways to deal with treacherous road conditions. Thankfully, some intrepid Russian...
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RHIC Collider Creates Quark-Gluon Plasma at 4,000,000,000,000 Degrees Celsius
Until the LHC finally gets up to full speed, Brookhaven National Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) remains the world’s most powerful heavy ion smasher. And on Monday, they showed off some...
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Robots To Clear Baltic Seabed Of WWII Mines
In a dangerous legacy of the world’s deadliest conflict, 150,000 World War Two-era sea mines litter the Baltic Sea. The danger these bombs pose to a proposed gas pipeline has prompted Russia to hire...
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