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Our Future in Space: Will Humanity Ever Get to Another World?
This is Part IV in a four part series. See Part I here. The World of Tomorrow Samsung has released its “SmartThings Future Living Report.” It’s a serious look at the topography of the future, at least...
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A ‘New Physics’? Scientists May Have Glimpsed a World Beyond the Standard Model
Meson, Fermions, Leptons, and Bosons The Standard Model, which emerged in the 1970s, is a theoretical foundation that explains the world and matter at the very smallest levels of reality: elementary...
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An Antimatter Drive In Less Than a Decade? It’s Not as Far-Fetched as You...
Have Antimatter, Will Travel Gerald Jackson, a former physicist at Fermilab, has a big dream. He thinks that, given unlimited funds, we could have a fully demonstrable, antimatter-propelled spacecraft...
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Why We May Owe Our Existence to Cosmic Expansion
Little Big Bangs Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the most intense and energetic phenomena in the universe. Said to be the birth-cries of black holes, they’re just about the biggest bangs our...
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Scientists 3D Print Cartilage Using an “ink” Composed of Human Cells
A Revolution in Cosmetic Surgery At a meeting today of the American Chemical Society (ACS), a team of researchers at Sweden’s Wallenberg Wood Science Center noted that they have devised a means of 3D...
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New Biosensor Rapidly Detects Multiple Viruses, and is 80% Cheaper Than...
Fast, Inexpensive Virus Detection Scientists at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have discovered a new, extremely sensitive and effective technique for detecting viruses. Their new...
View ArticleAlphabet Rumored to Be Selling Boston Dynamics
A High Profile Sale Alphabet, the technology incubator and parent company of Google, may be looking to unload Boston Dynamics, the robotics company known for producing some amazing tech. If the...
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Hubble Just Discovered a Host of New Behemoth Stars
Peering Into the Heart of the Tarantula If you think the Sun’s big, think again. There are some stars out there beside which our Sun would seem as puny as Pluto. And now, using the NASA/ESA Hubble...
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This Is The Camera That Will Lead The VR Revolution
YEAR ONE OF THE VR REVOLUTION 2016 is shaping up to be a defining year for virtual reality. Many are confident it will be the year the VR industry sticks, triggering a revolution that will completely...
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New Stem Cell Innovation Could Lead to Therapy for Parkinson’s and Multiple...
“A Major Innovation” Researchers from Rutgers and Stanford university have devised an ingenious new technology that may lead to new treatments for debilitating brain and neurological disorders, such as...
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New DARPA Program Aims to Facilitate Training Through Nerve Stimulation
Learning Made Simple Learning a new skill is a difficult thing to do. Anyone who has tried to master a new sport or learn a new language can attest to that; it’s a laborious process that can require...
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New Research Shows How Stars Turn to Gold
Cosmic Alchemy An illustration of the neutron capture process. Credit: Carnegie Institution of Science. Astrophysics has managed to paint a pretty accurate picture of how the elements were formed....
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NASA Sees a Supernova Flash for the First Time Ever
Caught in the Act Scientists have at last observed, in visible light wavelengths, the so-called “shock breakout” of a supernova—the moment when the expanding blast wave from a dying star finally...
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Watch This Light-Activated Living Tissue Move
A New Kind of Robot Meet the bio-bots—they’re small, twitchy hybrids of muscle tissue and algal cells that seek out light like moths to a flame. And they’re really, really cool. The new “machines” were...
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Welcome to the Age of Autonomous Drone Ships
Sailing Into the Future On Tuesday, Rolls-Royce—more famous for its luxury cars than its maritime contributions—rolled out a slick new video detailing a number of projected innovations in containerized...
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Thanks to NASA, We Can Now Use Plasma to Print Nanoelectronics
Spray-On Nanomaterials A new printing technique, developed by research teams from the NASA Ames Research Center and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, makes it possible to print miniature...
View ArticleThis Newly Made ‘Synthetic Life’ Is the Simplest Living Organism Ever
The Littlest Genome In new research published today in the journal Science, famed genomicists J. Craig Venter and Clyde Hutchison show how they have managed to assemble a functional living organism...
View ArticleScientists Find Microbe Grows 60% Better in Space Than on Earth
Just Hanging Out on the ISS Bad news for germaphobic would-be astronauts—scientists have found that a certain strain of bacteria grows about 60% better on the International Space Station than on Earth....
View ArticleHouse in a Backpack? This New Material Could Make It Happen
In research published in Nature Communications, a Harvard team describes a malleable, programmable material inspired by origami “snapology.” They used extruded cubes in a proof-of-concept...
View ArticleTurns Out Water Bears Are Not “Genetic Thieves” After All
The Amazing Tardigrade Tardigrades—also known as “moss piglets” and “water bears,” for their cute and cuddly, if eight-legged, appearance—are unquestionably some of the strangest organisms on Earth....
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