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British Crimefighting Drone Collars Its First Perp

Members of the British law enforcement community who think UAVs should be used to help stop crimes just got some new evidence to back up their argument, courtesy of the Merseyside PD. Yesterday, the...

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Nanoribbons Moved by Light: Could Propel Cell-Sized Submarines, Create...

The ability of matter to move light underpins such common phenomena as transparency, refraction, and reflection. But light moving matter? That’s a bit rarer. So rare, in fact, that University of...

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Clever Math Puts a Firm Number on the Amount of Dark Matter in Existence

Dark matter, the material that makes up the majority of the matter in the universe, remains so mysterious that scientists don’t even know how much of it there is, let alone how it behaves. However,...

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In First Successful Human Trial, Nanotech Robots Deploy Cancer-Fighting RNA

RNAi, also known as “gene silencing,” is a cellular mechanism that blocks the production of proteins, and has tantalized doctors as a potential medicine for a number of years now. However, by placing...

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Insanely Hi-Res Z-Contrast Photos Can Determine Which Atoms Are Which

And you thought the macros on your camera was good because you got a sweet close up of a flower? Well, the scientists over at Oak Ridge National Laboratory zoom in so tight they can distinguish atoms...

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Video: Computer-Controlled Bacteria Build a Miniature Pyramid

While so many scientists spend their time trying to create nanobots the size of bacteria, researcher at the NanoRobotics Laboratory of the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, decided to simply...

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Electrical Nerve Hacking Restores Movement To Paralyzed Limbs

When Matthew Schiefer, a neural engineer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, first managed to stimulate the leg of an unconscious volunteer by wrapping an electrode around a nerve...

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NASA Radar Developed for Mars Could Find Water Hiding Deep Beneath Earth Deserts

With 884 million people lacking a reliable source of clean drinking water, droughts throughout Africa and the Middle East exacerbating already tense situations, and global warming only making those...

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Finland Launching National Pilot Program To Open and Scan All Snail Mail

In an effort to increase efficiency, cut carbon emissions, and reduce costs, Finland has begun a pilot program wherein snail-mail letters are converted into PDFs and made viewable online by their...

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PARC Develops iPod-Sized HIV-Detection Device to Bring Affordable Testing To...

The monetary and energy expense of HIV testing machines prevent their deployment to remote or impoverished areas; the very places that need them the most. To rectify that inequity, Palo Alto Research...

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In Sharp Turn, Obama’s New Nuclear Strategy Ends U.S. Warhead Development

After months of deliberation and 150 meetings, the Obama Administration finally released its new guidelines for nuclear weapons policy. In a sharp break from previous administrations, Obama’s Nuclear...

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New LOFAR Telescope Network Probes Universe’s Low-Frequency Radiation to Look...

Until recently, radio astronomers have concentrated almost exclusively on the high-energy radiation streaming in towards Earth from exotic stellar bodies like pulsars, quasars, and super-massive black...

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Brain Scan Shows Vegetative Patient Responding To Yes-or-No Questions

In a study that challenges the diagnosis of vegetative state, doctors found that the brain of a seemingly unconscious, vegetative man responded to yes-or-no questions in the same fashion as an alert,...

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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: 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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NASA Tests Handy-Man Space Robots For Orbital Repairs

With cuts in the manned space program and the impending retirement of the Space Shuttle, NASA will soon face the need to repair satellites without the ability to send any astronauts to do it....

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Antarctic Collision Snaps Rhode-Island-Sized Iceberg Off Glacier

This month, an iceberg roughly the size of Luxembourg slammed into an Antarctic glacier known as the Mertz Ice Tongue. Then, last week, a Rhode Island-sized section of the Mertz Ice Tongue finally...

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As China and US Plan to Exploit “Burning Ice” for Fuel, the Ice Race Is On

When methane and freezing cold water fuse under tremendous pressure, they create a substance as paradoxical as it coveted: burning ice. Earlier in the year, a report from the National Research Council...

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Drug Treatment Could Sharpen Adult Brains

Anyone who’s tried to learn a second language knows that the earlier in life you start, the easier it is to learn. Now, a scientist at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center (SUNY)...

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