Great balls of power! Wind power is pretty great: One doesn’t need to do much but build turbines and capture the energy from a passing breeze. But, like what happened to the Ancient Mariner, still air means trouble. Intermittent energy is not useful for a grid that requires a continuous...
A team of researchers from the US and China have developed a synthetic ‘skin’ capable of sensing pressure with a...
A team of scientists have put together a series of DNA sequences to create glowing plants using synthetic biology and...
Panasonic, together with the Belgium-based research institution IMEC, has developed a DNA testing chip that automates all stages of obtaining...
Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous scientist of all time. Both his image and brilliant work on theoretical physics...
Scientists at the University of Tokyo managed to create a brand new material that is composed of 98 percent water....
A retinal implant has given a brief glimpse of light to a small number of blind people, and could one...
Dmitry Itskov, a 31-year-old Russian billionaire and media mogul, is betting that money can buy eternal life. He is the president of New...
How scientists create superheavy atoms. Last year, scientists in Germany set out to create the heaviest known element in the...
The research, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer’s Association, reviewed previously published findings...
These are the inevitable goal for products like the Google glasses, moving from bulky spectacles to imperceptible contact lens to...
3D printers have been steadily crawling into the market and the prices have been gradually decreasing, with the least expensive...
Coordinated swarms of drones could pollinate crops, monitor traffic, and more. Last year, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Grasp...
From giant mechanical jellyfish and manta rays to birds, the field of robotics is quickly moving up the evolutionary chain. In response to DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, NASA’s...
Stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy and time. But in this brilliant new Chinese train...
