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Chinese 3D Printer Creates Human Tissue Parts

A research team in Hangzhou in China’s eastern Zhejiang province has taken a big step toward fulfilling the dream of producing body parts that can be transplanted without fear of rejection. ...

Self Driving cars in 2018?

rd to, and which ones you'd rather avoid. ...

High-tech tattoo can stop athletes hitting the wall

Just 3 miles from the summit of L'Alpe d'Huez in the French Alps, Chris Froome felt as if he were about to hit "the wall". Taking a rule-breaking sugar-gel cost him a 20-second penalty but he finish...

Nudge: You're being manipulated – have you noticed?

DID you hear the one about the flies in the toilet? They took off, flew round the world, and started a revolution. It was 1999, and the authorities at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam were looking ...

Three habitable worlds found around the same star

Aliens could be watching aliens watching aliens. That's a realistic prospect now that three potentially habitable planets – a record – have been glimpsed orbiting the same star. Earlier studie...

End of Universities?

Publishing, music, shopping, journalism – all revolutionized by the Internet. Next in line? Education. Now U.S. academics are offering world-class tuition — free — to anyone who can log o...

The RoboRoach: control a living insect from your smartphone

RoboRoach The RoboRoach, a Kickstarter project, is the “world’s first commercially available cyborg” — part cockroach and part machine. The backpack communicat...

Personal cloud

A startup that lets you have your own cloud servers at home is part of a movement that is turning its back on conventional cloud computing IS THIS the death of the cloud as we know it? Space Monke...

Slimmer battery technology with Graphene

Graphene, the wonder material whose glittering array of electrical and thermal properties won its discoverers a Nobel prize in 2010, could soon be helping Apple's iPhones and iPads pack more power. ...

Single Gene Leads to Longer Lifespan Across Species

Mitochondria are the cell’s workhorse, transforming the calories we eat into useable energy. They have also been the subject of lots of scrutiny over longevity, since lifespan is intimately tie...

Waterproof fabrics that whisk away sweat

Waterproof fabrics that whisk away sweat could be the latest application of microfluidic technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Davis. The new fabric works like h...

Stephen Hawking's prophecies to come true in 300 years

Sooner or later, mankind will be forced to leave planet Earth - many scientists from different countries of the world share this idea. Reasons for that are plentiful: all kinds of disasters,...

Robotic insect

Harvard roboticists have created a robotic insect the size of a paper clip and successfully test-flown it. Inspired by the biology of a fly, the intricate design is the culmination of 12 years...

Where’s my flying car?

“Where’s my flying car?” Skeptics have trashed predictions of flying cars with this annoying question ever since the Jetsons. But now Terrafugia Inc. has announced feasibility studies o...

One way Mars?

Mars One says it has received applications from more than 78,000 people in more than 120 countries for the Mars One astronaut selection program, in hopes of becoming a Mars settler in 2023. ...

Mechanical energy harvester replaces small batteries

MicroGen has developed a “piezo-MEMS” (piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems) device that gathers ambient vibrations and converts them into electrical energy. Vibration causes...

Lab reveals it has operated quantum internet for over two years

A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, MIT Technology Review reports. One of the ...

First fully 3D-printed gun test-fired

Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson has test-fired the world’s first fully 3D-printed gun — “the Liberator.” The CAD file is downloadable* at DEFCAD, operated by Defense Distribute...

RFID chips built into your money and documents?

North Dakota State University. researchers have developed a new way of embedding traceable chips within “smart” paper — raising the possibility of banks and governments guarding against cou...

Scientists create artificial skin that emulates human touch

U.S. and Chinese Scientists used zinc oxide vertical nanowires to generate sensitivity. According to experts, the artificial skin is "smarter and similar to human skin." It also offer...

Discovery yields supertough, strong nanofibers

University of Nebraska-Lincoln materials engineers have developed a structural nanofiber that is both strong and tough, a discovery that could transform everything from airplanes and bridges to b...

Speed of light may not be constant

Two European Physical Journal D papers challenge established wisdom about the nature of vacuum. In one paper, Marcel Urban from the University of Paris-Sud and colleagues identified a...

Solar plane

(Image: J. Revillard/Solar Impuse) A solar-powered aircraft has this week been plying the skies around Moffett Field in San Francisco, California, as its inventors rehearse for their next amb...

More antibiotics may not be better

Finish the course of pills: that's what all doctors say when they prescribe antibiotics, and for now, you should heed them. But new research suggests that might not always work as well as they assum...

New keyboard for touchscreens speeds up thumb-typing

A new keyboard called KALQ that enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices has been created by a research team at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the University of St Andrews, ...

Implantable Electronics Disappear in the Body

Imagine pain-relieving electronics devices that go into your body, work, and then disappear completely when they’re done. This week scientists showed off adva...

Training the brain to improve on new tasks

A brain-training task that increases the number of items an individual can remember over a short period of time may boost performance in other problem-solving tasks by enhancing communication betwee...

Acute short-live stress is good

UC Berkeley researchers have uncovered exactly how acute stress — short-lived, not chronic — primes the brain for improved performance. In studies on rats, Daniela Kaufer, associate ...

Future ‘microrockets’ and ‘micromotors’

An advance in micromotor technology is opening the door to broad new medical and industrial uses for these tiny An advance in micromotor technology is opening the door to broad new medical and ...

Smart Clothes You’ll Be Wearing Soon

Motion-detecting pants, a proximity sensing shirt, a heart-sensing bra, biosensor underwear, and a “thought helmet” are among everyday objects that are becoming networked. ...