In a new breakthrough, scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory and Dow AgroSciences have engineered a relative of cabbage to create the raw material for producing plastics.
The
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Ramped-up research efforts at IBM and other labs in the U.S. and Europe could lead to more powerful and more prevalent quantum computers in the near future.
IBM is breathing new life into a quantum computing research division at its Thomas J. Watson Research
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Savor that leftover Halloween candy, because in the future, you won't be able to afford it. Chocolate consumption is increasing faster than cocoa production, according to the Cocoa Research Association, and that means prohibitively
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Bracing for an onslaught from emboldened congressional conservatives - and ramped-up media coverage of their offensive - climate scientists are joining truth squads that seek to dispel climate-change skeptics.
One program is a relaunch of a previous climate information
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A new fuel-free propulsion system for nanodevices works like a disappearing act, dissolving an object at one end and re-generating it at the other end.
The method requires an electrical current to
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A new method could yield effective treatments for a host of diseases
Canadian researchers have turned skin cells into blood cells, a breakthrough that could lead to new cancer
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Researchers in Germany have created bandages that turn purple at the first sign of infection.
A new wound dressing, developed at the Fraunhofer Research Institution
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Ambitious researchers think they might be able to map the human brain in just five years, navigating the complex networks between neurons
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Cab drivers know their cities intimately, using shortcuts and side streets to bypass traffic jams and (hopefully) get you to your destination more quickly. Now Microsoft is hoping to tap into this talent and design
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A fourth neutrino could help explain dark matter
Physicists working with a Fermilab neutrino experiment may have found a new elementary
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Satellite dishes as we know them - both the huge ones that require a corner of the backyard and the more modern, compact variety that mount on rooftops - could be on their way out. A grad student at the Netherlands' University of Twente has devised a new
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Looks like it's time to update again, folks. But this time, Microsoft has a slightly more complicated pricing system based on the type of computer you're using (and the kind of package you want). Essentially, people who've bought ready-made home computers from any of the major manufacturers
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The moon's south pole could be a pleasantly moist place to put a moon base
When NASA "bombed" the moon back in October there was a lot of fanfare leading up to a visually
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Those spiky things around the stadium's top? Those are 20-foot-tall wind turbines. 80 of them
The Philadelphia Eagles announced a partnership with Solar Blue to completely re-green their
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Apple's iPad was finally launched yesterday to eager Australian crowds yesterday, with numerous media reports of enormous crowds being piled up outside
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Virgin Galactic just released some nice video of its latest SpaceShipTwo (aka VSS Enterprise) test flight, the first with the spacecraft's two-pilot flight crew aboard.
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A nanosatellite no bigger than a loaf of bread -- and named after cookies -- is set to launch today to study the origins of life in the universe.
Its name stands for Organism/Organic
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We're putting things that used to be on paper on video devices, things usually associated with large video screens onto pocket-sized devices, and now Sony is putting video on a flexible
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Videocalling has been a sci-fi staple for decades. From 2001 to Back to the Future people chatting face-to-face from great distances was a way of saying "Hey, look, it's the future!" So does FaceTime mean we're in the future?
FaceTime is
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Researchers in Germany have created bandages that turn purple at the first sign of infection.
A new wound dressing, developed at the Fraunhofer Research Institution
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It is said that life imitates art and vice versa. So it should come as no surprise that various fictional quotes (or even entire texts) are so commonly used to define us. This is, in itself, not problematic from my side of the fence as there is no need to reinvent the defining quotation wheel:
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The fantastic thing about slow news weeks is that I get to be incredibly obscure with my blog topic choices, which can mean only one thing: exploring the philosophy of the everyday. You may have seen this
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In Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi’s opinion, his empirical research into the phenomenon otherwise known as luck has reaped no results. Tesla Patent Pending’s empirical research into the same phenomenon, on the other hand, has pointed very much towards the existence of the global conspiracy
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What do you get when you cross a 1990s AIM-bot with the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks?
Today, a company called Intellitar is set to release Virtual Eternity, a bit
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The Obama administration is considering disabling cell phones in American cars, aiming to cut down on distracted
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Colonisation is now a (distant) possibility!
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) on the Indian
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Myers Motors Unveils New Electric
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If the idea of turning consumers into true cyborgs sounds creepy, don't tell Intel researchers. Intel's Pittsburgh lab aims to develop brain implants that can control
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U.S. Marines could deploy the non-lethal weapon if it proves viable
Stopping a speeding
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A new machine aims to bring sous vide cooking to the home chef for the first time
Sous vide
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