All the stories tagged with science
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 [...]
Electroadhesion Allows Robots To Climb Walls Easily
11/07/2010, The smart folks over at SRI International are busy working on a new technology dubbed compliant electroadhesion, which is a method that allows an object with electroadhesive properties to be held onto or stuck to most common surfaces, such as [...]
Electronic Implant Allows The Blind To See
11/02/2010, Researchers have been busy testing electronic implants aimed at restoring vision to folks with retinal dystrophy, a condition that causes degeneration of the photoreceptors, leading to blindness. They have come up with a microchip carrying 1500 photosensitive diodes that slide [...]
New Anode Material Increases Li-ion Battery Capacity By 30 Percent
10/28/2010, With the increasing power and features of new smartphones, battery life has been an issue that manufacturers have yet to address. Now a Japanese group of researchers have developed a new oxide negative-electrode material that can enhance the capacity, lower [...]
Japanese scientists working on printing out smells
10/25/2010, Yeah, who would have thought that one could actually print out smells sometime in the near future? The day could be drawing nigh thanks to Kenichi Okada and his friends from Keio University, where they discovered a method to take [...]
