The silicon surface around it showed up as nothing but a uniform field of black Although Klingon-style disappearing spaceships may not be in our neighborhood any time soon, the techno... Read more
Chinese citizens could once again enjoy LOL Cats on YouTube – as well as content critical of the communist government – if a new system developed by researchers at the University... Read more
For a great number of people with paralyzed limbs, the reason that they can’t move the arm or leg in question is because the “move” command isn’t able to reach from t... Read more
Cartilage wounds can be very difficult to treat. While they may eventually heal on their own, the resulting tissue often won’t take the same form – or allow for the same function – as... Read more
Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting mach... Read more
Researchers from Imperial College London, the University of Michigan and Instituto Superior Téchnico Lisbon have created a tabletop device that produces synchrotron X-rays, the energy and im... Read more
Carbon nanotubes, despite all the technological advances they’re making possible, look pretty boring. When viewed though a microscope, they are, essentially, just straight tubes. Now scienti... Read more
Started as a way for University of Michigan students to gossip during class, founder Dan Rich says he was inspired by the simplicity of sites like Texts From Last Night and FML when he built... Read more
