Lightest solid material
Scientists have developed a solid material so light it can be balanced atop the petals of a flower. Researchers from Zhejiang university in Hangzhou, China, showed off their newly developed graphe...
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Scientists have developed a solid material so light it can be balanced atop the petals of a flower. Researchers from Zhejiang university in Hangzhou, China, showed off their newly developed graphe...
Meet Zoe: a digital talking head. She can express a range of human emotions on demand with “unprecedented realism” and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction, according to resea...
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A high-resolution endoscope as thin as a human hair Engineers at Stanford University have developed a prototype single-fiber endoscope that is as thin as a human hair, with a resolution fou...
Google wants to replace all your passwords with a ring March 13, 2013 As part of research into doing away with typed passwords, Google has built rings that not only adorn a finger but a...
he DARPA Tactical Technology Office is soliciting proposals on the design, development and demonstration of a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) experimental aircraft (X-Plane) with exceptional per...
Breathlessly billed as "Space Travel on Earth," a transportation concept from Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies, or ET3, would reportedly be able to whisk passengers from New York to L.A. in ...
Batteries continue to be the bane of mobile devices, but research done at Northwestern University could change that, with longer-lasting batteries that charge in minutes, not hours. The new science ...
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Sakti3 Lithium Air One materials scientist told me that lithium air is the "grand slam home run" of energy density. Lithium-air batteries differ from lithium-ion...
Quantum devices will revolutionise computing, enabling huge calculations to be completed that classical computers simply cannot do. We're now one step closer to quantum ...
A man receives a medical checkup before surgery, in Santiago, Chile, on July 5, 2005 Enlarge A man receives a medical checkup...
As “smart” technologies continue to consume just about every aspect of our lives — from eating and doing laundry to turning on the lights and saving o...
We're one step closer to seeing bendable phones hit the market. A group of scientists led by Professor Lee Sang-young of South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Technology announced that they've s...
A few weeks back we told you about the revolutionary one-piece carbon fiber wheels developed by Australia’s Carbon Revolution. Built first for the Porsche 911, the 19x8.5 (front) and 19x12 (rear) ...
Yi Cui, an engineer at Stanford University, leads a team that may take nanotechnology to the next level by creating paper batteries and fabrics that can conduct energy. At a recent demonstration, Cu...
The advancements that are being made in battery technology are pretty mind boggling. We are seeing devices that are drawing power from just about every source that is imaginable, and now there is ba...
A flexible paper computer developed at Queen’s University in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs could one day revolutionize the way people work with tablets and computers. The Pa...
What does it mean to us homo sapiens ? Whenever the first Earth twin is confirmed, the discovery will likely have a profound effect on humanity. "We humans will look up into the night sk...
Engineers from the Bristol wing of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) have announced the development of the first bicycle using Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) tec...
opinions about this topic. Print E-Mail Feedback 01/04/2013 3-D Printing Technology May Bring New Industrial Revolution By Ma...
Attention seniors: French scientists have developed a process that permanently dyes white hair without harmful chemicals. Philippe Walter and colleagues soaked white hairs in a solution containing...
New research in the FASEB Journal by NIH scientists suggests that a small molecule called TFP5 rescues plaques and tangles by blocking an overactive brain signal, thereby restoring memory in mic...
Orange You Glad It's Time For Hot Chocolate? A creamsicle-colored set of mugs will make your hot chocolate taste and smell sweeter than it would taste served in plain white or stark re...
There's a good chance that you already own one of the most ubiquitous health-care innovations: a smartphone. Last month, the FDA cleared a new iPhone add-on that lets doctors take an electrocardiogr...
DNA Sequencing for Routine Checkups At a genetics conference in November, Oxford Nanopore Technologies unveiled the first of a generation of tiny DNA sequencing devices that many predict will e...