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...
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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...
(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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Technology Review’s editors have identified ten emerging technologies that they predict will have a tremendous influence in the near future: Wireless Sensor Networks, Injectable Tissue Engineering...
Solar power from space, super-hairy plants to reflect enough near-infrared energy back into space to cool regional temperatures by two degrees Fahrenheit, and turning the carbon dioxide fr...
The dressing contains a fluorescent dye that is activated in the presence of infection-causing bacteria. Currently, the results of tests to determine whether a wound...
Stanford University bioengineers have taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology by creating the “transcriptor” — a biological transistor made from DN...
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...
When you travel, watch out for these objects - they carry lots of germs !! Remote controls are never cleaned !! Handrails in supermarkets, airports, trains and bus stations - how many people hol...
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 ...
IBM Magnesium Ion Some researchers are looking beyond lithium. The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) is funding high-risk, high-reward ...
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...