Testing the stretchiness of a newly synthesized rubberlike polymer in one of the Stanford University labs has yielded surprising results. Cheng-Hui Li, a member of a research group led by chemical engineering Professor Zhenan Bao, has developed a type of elastomer – the kind of plastic…
Although visually impressive, the inventions of Nikola Tesla haven’t been used for much aside from entertainment and education for the better part of the last century. This may be about to change, as scientists at Rice University have discovered that the strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil…
The line between a man and a machine is continuing to blur. Not only are computers in some ways getting better than us (one only needs to remember the recent news of Google’s AlphaGo beating a pro player in a game of Go), but we are witnessing the beginnings…
For development of IoT, it is vital that computers get smaller and affordable. After all, the goal is to put them in as many items as possible. Intel now marks a significant progress in this endeavor, with its new Quark Micro-controller Developer Kit D2000…
Yesterday morning in San Francisco, California, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a keynote speech at the
A lot has been said about Tor – software project that enables its
Researchers from the University of Bristol, in collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of Exeter, Montpellier, and Naples Federico II, have found that humanoid robotics and computer avatars could help rehabilitate people suffering from serious social disorders, such as schizophrenia or social phobia…
Research into behavior and flying patterns of green orchidee bees reveals possible future for autonomous unmanned aircraft and small robots. The way in which these bees assess the incoming light enables them to navigate…
Scientists from the University of Washington (UW) worked with a much older technology that has been here for millennia. They have now created a working system, which uses DNA as the storage facility.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal to increase production of energy from renewable sources is threatened, now that SunEdison Inc’s project in India faces a failure. The construction of 32 “ultra mega” complexes is probably going to be delayed…
