All the stories tagged with: science
Plant eats worms now
01/11/2012, Here is a little respite from all the usual CES news that has flooded our site for the past few days – and while no real tech is involved here, it does bring a smile to our faces since the [...]
Text generated from brain images
09/01/2011, Imagine the future where you are able to get a text output from nothing but your thoughts – yes, that is right, Princeton scientists have managed to make it possible, although their effort is still in its infancy. These scientists [...]
Cyborg roaches love Lady Gaga tunes
08/15/2011, Cockroaches, or roaches for short, are more or less the pariahs of the insect world, even though they are most definitely going to survive and perhaps even thrive in a post-nuclear world compared to us humans, but for the moment, [...]
Cellphones do affect the brain: new study
02/23/2011, In yet another such study, the National Institute of Health finds that using a cellphone for as little as 50mn does modify the brain activity in the region near the antenna. Don’t panic yet: there’s no signs that this is [...]
Science: Head-mounted camera implant rejected
02/09/2011, You might remember the freaky story about a professor that embedded a camera at the back of his head via a titanium plate? Well, it turns out that he’s facing a few challenges at this point as he just underwent [...]
Laser-propelled rockets in the future?
01/24/2011, We’ve already seen laser-powered helicopters from LaserMotive and perhaps the company will go about sending rockets into space using lasers in the near future too. One of the issues about sending a chemical-powered rocket into space is that you need [...]
Researchers use LCD projectors for mind control?
01/18/2011, The smart folks over at the Georgia Institute of Technology have managed to use inexpensive components from ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) projectors to control both the brains and muscles of tiny organisms such as worms. While previous research was [...]
Researchers try to determine if you’re a pro gamer with science
01/13/2011, Are researchers running out of things to research about? Probably not, but a group of psychology professors at the University of Illinois have been doing some research and discovered that you can tell how gifted someone is at gaming by [...]
Spinal implant could cancel pain signals
12/14/2010, Researchers Down Under might just come up with a new implantable chip which is capable of canceling the pain signals sent from the spine to the brain in human trials. This chip will naturally target folks who suffer from chronic [...]
Spray-on Stem Cell Treatment To Accelerate Burn Healing
12/03/2010, We’d love to have a cool healing factor like Wolverine, since paper cuts seem to happen quite often in the office. While that’s still a dream, the folks over at the University of Utah have come up with something along [...]
New Film Polymer Generates Voltage When Bent
11/22/2010, Researchers out there have managed to come up with a film polymer sensor that generates voltage when being bent, with the voltage generated depending on the degree of the bend. One of features of this sensor is that the output [...]
MIT Develops Adaptive Lighting System That Could Reduce Lighting Bills
11/22/2010, Energy consumption is a hot topic nowadays and now a new system developed by the smart folks over at MIT might have the potential to slash lighting bills by more than half. The experimental system features devices that are about [...]
MIT Laser Camera Can See Around Corners
11/21/2010, Perhaps we’ll be able to easily shoot pictures of folks hiding around the corner in the future as a camera that is capable of shooting around corners has been developed by scientists from MIT. The prototype device uses an ultra-short [...]
