The VELOCIRoACH manages top speeds of almost nine feet per second, despite being the size of, well, a cockroach If you’ve ever seen cockroaches scuttle across the floor and out of... 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
An “all-in-one” system for the capture, storage and use of solar energy Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and UC Berkeley have developed a system which can store sol... Read more
A new approach to invisibility cloaking may one day be used at sea to shield floating objects — such as oil rigs and ships — from rough waves. Unlike most other cloakin... Read more
Stanford researchers have designed the fastest, most accurate algorithm yet for brain-implantable prosthetic systems that can help disabled people maneuver computer cursors with th... Read more
Long-abandoned bacterial fermentation process resurrected to feed catalysis into fuel mixture A long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be... Read more
With a chilling hint of the not-so-distant future, researchers at the Usenix Security conference have demonstrated a zero-day vulnerability in your brain. Using a commercial off-th... Read more
“This is a major advance in the field of vision restoration” A team of University of California, Berkeley, scientists in collaboration with researchers at the University of... Read more
Humanity may be pushing the planet toward sudden, irreversible ecological changes Human activities are pushing Earth toward a “tipping point” that could cause sudden, i... Read more
They were able to predict the words the person had heard Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paraly... Read more
The researchers say their breakthrough marks a major advance toward applications in the biomedical, communications and computing fields. Read more
Image via Wikipedia Synthetic biology has allowed scientists to tweak E. coli to produce fuels from sugar and, more sustainably, cellulose The bacteria responsible for most cases o... Read more
