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How far would you go to modify yourself using the latest medical technology? In a New York Times article Saturday, author and broadcaster David Ewing Duncan offers a partial checklist of cuttin...
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How far would you go to modify yourself using the latest medical technology? In a New York Times article Saturday, author and broadcaster David Ewing Duncan offers a partial checklist of cuttin...
Intel researchers are working on a 48-core processor for smartphones and tablets — making them many times more powerful than today’s desktop computers within the next five to ten ...
Cardboard bicycle 'close to mass production': tough, green and just $20 Cardboard never ceases to amaze. Having been deployed in gramophones, stereos and even digital cameras, one inventor now ...
G Club Penang Cyclists Guide Blind Cyclists Atop Tandem Bikes Maybe they do not have the gift of sight, but they can still feel the wind in their faces. And they can enjoy that satisfying transf...
Swimming pool with glass bottom floating in sky built in China Source: holidayinn.com A swimming pool with the bottom made of glass was built on the 24th storey of Ho...
Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significa...
Elevator to the Moon to become reality in 8 years The LiftPort Group, a US-based privately-owned company, with former NASA researcher Michael Laine at the head, is planni...
1 Keep yourself interested, have a challenge ! My concern today is, what is it I can tell you which can add to your knowledge about aging and what aging societies can do. You know more about ...
Texting by thinking In addition to 5G, phones are becoming available with the option of texting by thought power alone.* This is achieved by a sensor-mounted headset worn by the user. The device ...
The 5G standard release 2020 By 2020, the next major cellular wireless standard has been adopted.* This continues the trend seen since 1981 - in which a new mobile generation has appeared roughly...
Rough it out with this crushproof camera inShare Olympus TG-1 Tough compact camera Just how tough is tough? The Olympus TG-1 is c...
Microchip on roof of the mouth can reduce snoring Patients who snore and have been diagnosed with mild apnea now have another treatment option...technology can reduce episodes of snoring....
Construction workers on Tuesday laid the last piece of a railway that will link southwest China's Yunnan Province with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. The Yuxi-Mengzi...
Moutaineer Khoo Swee Chiow summited the 8,611-m high K2 last Tuesday (July 31), considered to be one of the most difficult mountains to climb. He is the f...
A Russian mogul wants to achieve cybernetic immortality for humans within the next 33 years. He's pulled together a team intent on creating fully functional holographic human avatars that ho...
Now Frankenstein can have a pet jellyfish. A team of scientists has taken the heart cells of a rat, arranged them on a piece of rubbery silicone, added a jolt of electricity, and created a "Frank...
No Mother Needed Credit: Alex Finnemore/University of Cambridge For the first time, researchers have successfully grown artificial mother-of-pearl, the iridescent, multilay...
Stephen Hawking has launched the most powerful shared-memory supercomputer in Europe, the COSMOS supercomputer, manufactured by SGI and the first system of its kind....
Tiny glass fragments from a 40,000-year-old volcanic eruption suggest Neandertals were wiped out by competition with modern humans and not by climate change. Image: Suzanne MacLachlan/BOSCORF/N...
Awesome Experiences Make Us Nicer: Ever feel changed after watching an amazing sunset, or reaching the summit of a mountain or seeing the Northern Lights? There's a reason for that, say p...
Samsung may begin producing flexible AMOLED displays this quarter According to The Verge, Korean news site DDaily says Samsung is set to begin manufacturing its long-rumored "Youm" disp...
World's 1st Free Course on "Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life" Edinburgh University’s upcoming free course, “Introduction ...
Russian Railways (RZhD) and the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) intend to create a nuclear-powered train, reports Interfax. According to RZhD vice-president Valent...
Giant Leap in Space Technology: For Galaxies, Black Holes & Quantum World (Weekend Feature) A new type of amplifier for boosting electrical signals that can be used...
We stand on the verge of a revolution in medicine: understanding, treating, and ultimately preventing the causes of degenerative aging. But medical revolutions only happen if we all stand up ...