Even the Army Corps of Engineers is involved in the effort to protect bats
DENVER - Gerald Carter walked over to Dave Dalton's table and paused, listening to a discussion about infrared light. He set down his backpack full of video and audio equipment and smiled. "I
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The most dextrous, most careful and most useful robotic gripper is not a claw or a hand with several fingers - it's a sack of coffee grounds.
Working with funds from DARPA, researchers
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Four ounces of shampoo is enough to send the Transportation Security Administration into a tizzy, but the U.S. government does not have any rules governing the making of custom sequences of DNA to order, for sale to any interested would-be bioterrorists.
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If NASA ever gets a clear directive for interplanetary exploration, a new Hundred-Year Starship could be their version of the Mayflower. And like
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Scottish researchers may have found a key to preventing senior moments, by blocking a stress hormone that interferes with memory. The treatment works surprisingly fast in mice,
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What would the world look like without bats? As winter approaches, biologists seek new methods and technologies to help control a potentially devastating ecological disaster
Tom Kunz has been studying bats throughout New England for more than four decades. In annual
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As evidenced by NASA's confirmation last week of an asteroid collision observed by Hubble, there are plenty of objects careening around the solar system
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Now that scientists are done making a map of the cosmic microwave background, they can use that detailed map to find hidden treasures from the ancient universe.
Using
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Say Nano The Scint-X dental camera's X-ray unit inserted into the patient's mouth is thinner than today's
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Lasers can be powerful weapons - they can take down an aircraft at long ranges and in unstable conditions,
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Now that scientists are done making a map of the cosmic microwave background, they can use that detailed map to find hidden treasures from the ancient universe.
Using
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The Stuxnet worm has generated plenty of commentary from computer industry experts and security pundits, but yesterday the U.S. government's senior cybersecurity expert at the Department of Homeland Security weighed
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Have you ever lazily wished you could just use a tractor beam to grab that out-of-reach object? Apparently, you can.
Using only light, Australian researchers say they are able to move
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What would any recent sci-fi film or TV show be without some kind of 3D, most probably holographic, display? The problem with science-fiction of old was the lack of real-world computer technology the film/TV show creators had available to them in order to create believable futuristic technology.
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After a weekend using the iPad, I've realised I'm not interested in hedging my reaction to it with careful considerations of its lack of a USB port or webcam. It's not every day, or every year or maybe even every decade that we're able to see a piece of technology that takes a familiar human
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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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Not the Airbus A380! That distinction went to the now defunct McDonnell Douglas company
It?s
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US Army Special Forces soldiers will deploy with the XM-25 weapon this summer, so that they can shower enemies hidden inside buildings with lethal smart rounds. Veterans of the Afghanistan conflict who tried the weapon predicted it would be a "game changing" gun capable
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For the last 10 months, Carnegie Mellon University's Never-Ending Language Learning System, or NELL, has been continuously searching the web for text patterns and grouping them into different semantic categories, a system that closely
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In a potential breakthrough in the prevention of AIDS, researchers are reporting today that a vaginal gel containing an existing AIDS drug can cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner.
The women involved in the study used it only
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Viruses generally get a bad rap, but they can also be very helpful little machines. For instance, bacteriophages have been engineered to clear up infections that seemed otherwise untreatable, and genetic material from viruses has been used to ease
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General Motors touted the automatic driving mode of its two-wheel electric car when it unveiled the vehicle last month in Shanghai, China. Now there's a video that
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A laser-obsessed entrepreneur whose mosquito-zapping project demoed at the TED 2010 conference has bigger plans for energy beams. Tom Nugent envisions using lasers to deliver energy over long distances -- whether that means juicing up an aerial drone's batteries or beaming solar space power
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What if we could use our pollution as fuel? That notion seems intractable within the current energy paradigm, in which so many of our pollutants are byproducts of our fuels. But it's precisely that idea that inspired Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza to create "Nomadic
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NASA's Orion crew capsule, which was part of the cancelled Constellation program, has been revived as an escape pod for the International Space Station. A smaller version of the capsule could launch on an Atlas or Delta rocket and eliminate the need to buy a multimillion-dollar Russian Soyuz
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A more powerful magnetic material may have emerged to topple previous record-holder iron cobalt, until now the most magnetic material on Earth. The new iron and nitrogen compound might also force physicists to revise their understanding of magnetism, according to the Minnesota
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If you've been anywhere near a television or Web enabled device in the last week (and you must have been), you know that a volcanic eruption in Iceland has grounded airline flights across Europe and even halted a few flights into the northeastern-most
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DARPA's ardent desire to realise every sci-fi concept ever dreamed of continues with a biologically-inspired computer project which aims for feline brain functionality. But this time it's pinning its hopes on memristor devices which can simulate the behaviour of biological synapses in the brain.
Memristors
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It's a question many experienced gamers have probably asked: Why do video game software publishers continue to print instruction manuals for their games? It's not as though games aren't already furnished with comprehensive training modes and option menus that can't be summarily skipped by players
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After lots of talk and testing, Japanese researchers are ready to go space sailing. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced its intention to launch its first "space
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