An innovative, effective and low-cost system which replicates in robots the pheromone-based communication of insect swarms is now being made available to robotics and artificial intelligence... Read more
Instead of slow, incremental change from the business community, we need to fundamentally reorder the entire system. And right now may be the only opportunity. There are periods of creative... Read more
In 2009, a startup known as Breakthrough announced it would make it cheap and easy for people to receive confidential counseling on the web. Three years later, with the upholding of healthca... Read more
GraphExeter could revolutionize the electronics industry A team of researchers from the University of Exeter have created a revolutionary material adapted from graphene. The innovation calle... Read more
The new Trilogy 40 Q-Mode™ could save about 60% of annual energy use The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with ClimateMaster, has developed a highly ef... Read more
A breakthrough in controlling graphene A breakthrough in controlling graphene could see the highly conductive and super-strong ‘wonder material’ replace silicon and change the face of... Read more
A simple cheek swab could show early signs of lung cancer “I went in for a hysterectomy and when I woke up, they told me I had ovarian cancer.” Backman says both technologies are... Read more
EXPERTS in Cambridge have made a breakthrough in the battle against Parkinson’s Disease. Scientists from Cambridge University are developing a new therapy which they hope will slow down or e... Read more
Cancer is the leading cause of death in the world US researchers said Monday they have discovered how to keep tumor cells alive in the lab, generating buzz in the scientific community... Read more
New breakthroughs in solar technology have been announced which could mean a complete game changer in the way electricity is generated. The technology involves printing a new type of... Read more
We have developed a new material with similar properties without those exotic elements Northeastern University researchers have designed a super-strong magnetic material that may revolutioni... Read more
I believe this could be the biggest revolution in cardiovascular medicine in my lifetime A US study which has treated damage caused by heart attacks using the patient’s own stem... Read more
The United States’ copper-based electric grid is estimated to leak electricity at an estimated five percent per 100 miles (161 km) of transmission. With power plants usually located fa... Read more
With an innovative camera due out later this year from a company called Lytro, photographers will have one less excuse for having missed that perfect shot. The company’s technology allows a... Read more
The development of practical microbial fuel cells took a big step forward this week. Research conducted by a team of scientists from England’s University of East Anglia was published o... Read more
