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Vending machines and automated-checkout services were a small part of U.S culture back in 1888 with the invention of gumball dispensers. Fast forward to now and you’re surrounded by machine automation. From a business perspective it’s more affordable to maintain a machine rather than pay an employee to sell some sodas, or the day’s paper.

Image via Wikipedia If neuroimaging can reliably discern truth from falsehood, should brain scans be admissible evidence in court cases? Brooklyn defense attorney David Zevin almost made legal history last month by attempting to submit functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data as evidence that a key witness was telling the truth. Zevin was defending Cynette

Imagine flying from New York to Tokyo in only four hours aboard a fuel-efficient supersonic jet that looks like something right out of Star Wars. Such a plane could become reality in the next two to three decades, thanks to the efforts of a University of Miami aerospace engineering professor. Ge-Chen Zha, along with collaborators

The field of “culturomics” promises humanities researchers a robust quantitative tool to analyze cultural trends back to the 1500s Can culture be decoded like a genome? A team from Harvard University has teamed up with Google to crack the spines of 5,195,769 digitized books that span five centuries of the printed word with the hopes of giving

Image via Wikipedia Is It an Environmental Boon or Bane? More than 2.5 billion plastic bottles—partially made from plants—are already in use around the world in a bid to replace petroleum as the fundamental building block of everyday plastics. The so-calledPlantBottle from the Coca-Cola Co. is made by converting sugars from sugarcane farmed in Brazil into

Our ambition is to allow re-use of the paper In offices the world over, heaps of printouts and photocopies from laser printers get used once before being discarded, or tossed on shelves to collect dust indefinitely. But what if they could be wiped clean and used again? An engineering team at the University of Cambridge

It’s certainly an established fact that electricity can cause fires, but today a group of Harvard scientists presented their research on the use of electricity for fighting fires. In a presentation at the 241st National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Ludovico Cademartiri told of how they used a unique device to shoot

The ability to shrink laboratory-scale processes to automated chip-sized systems would revolutionize biotechnology and medicine. For example, inexpensive and highly portable devices that process blood samples to detect biological agents such as anthrax are needed by the U.S. military and for homeland security efforts. One of the challenges of “lab-on-a-chip” technology is the need for

Can be repeatedly peeled off thousands of times without losing its ability to grip As is so often the case these days for those searching for a better way to stick stuff together, researchers from the Zoological Institute at the University of Kiel in Germany have turned to the biology of gravity-defying ceiling walkers, such