Swapping of roles improves efficiency as well as robots’ confidence and humans’ trust. Spending a day in someone else’s shoes can help us to learn what makes them tick. Now the sam... Read more
What if any person, anywhere in the world, had free access to the machines that power the industrial revolution? That’s the goal of the Global Village Construction Set: empowering... Read more
New policies are needed to safeguard participants’ identity in genetic studies, cautions TAU researcher The growing ease of DNA sequencing has led to enormous advancements in... Read more
The discovery that sea urchins use Nickel particles to harness carbon dioxide from the sea could be the key to capturing tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. Experts at Newcastle Uni... Read more
They control and direct whether the cancer occurs or not. Biologists at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences have discovered a bioelectric signal that can identify cells th... Read more
New technology could help power portable devices like satellite phones and radios Super-small particles of silicon react with water to produce hydrogen almost instantaneously, acco... Read more
“This is the first comprehensive treatment specifically for children with HFASDs to be found effective in two randomized trials.” In a second randomized clinical trial, researchers... Read more
A diagnostic-quality microscope that can be used by clinics in developing countries and inside — and outside — American biology classrooms By fitting a “smart” mobile p... Read more
The new work, with astonishing simplicity, creates pacemaker cells that closely resemble the native ones free from the risk of cancer. Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have... Read more
A new drug may bring help for people with insomnia, according to a study published in the November 28, 2012, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy... Read more
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have invented a set of chemical tools that is radically simplifying the creation of potential new drug compounds. Pharmaceutical... Read more
Robots that teach themselves (on site) to perform tasks through interaction with the real world Programming robots to do household chores or perform care tasks is difficult and tim... Read more
If Immigration Law Doesn’t Get In The Way Six years ago, we wrote about Andy Kessler’s fascinating book, The End of Medicine, which got me to totally rethink how nearly... Read more
“Reality Deck” designed to assist scientists, engineers and physicians in tackling modern-age problems requiring vast amounts of data Stony Brook University unveiled its latest eng... Read more
Discovery Could Lead to Billions of Dollars in Energy Savings Vision researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have made a groundbreaking discovery into the optimization of ligh... Read more
