The Carrousel, created by Philip Ross, is an interface that allows people to dynamically ‘sculpt’ a desired atmosphere […]
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Scientists have identified the chemical emitted by female German cockroaches, aka the “biggest pest worldwide”, that brings males […]
Zbigniew Oksiuta‘s works merge biology, art and architecture. The Spatium Gelatum (congealed space) project is a proposal for […]
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South Korean scientists successfully produced a chicken, which inherited a fluorescent character from its green-tinged transgenic father, opening […]
Scientists are to “barcode” every species on Earth, starting with birds and fish and recording details in their […]
Researchers at Manchester University (UK) have developed a printer able to produce human skin to help wounds heal. […]
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Growing drugs inside plants, instead of making them in factories, could soon be big business. Companies are looking […]
Bioengineers at the University of California, L.A., have created microscopic robots powered by living heart cells, without any […]
Evidence from psychology is persuading economists that reason does not always have its way when it comes to […]
Entering schedules and assignments into a computer can be tedious — especially when the act interrupts a conversation. […]
Yoshifumi Kitamura and his team at the Human Interface Engineering Laboratory, in Osaka University, is investigating varieties of […]
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits have developed a wireless ball and player location system that […]
A wireless birthing simulator, designed by students at Johns Hopkins University, allows the doctor to know precisely how […]
Geckos feet can stick to almost any surface while remaining mysteriously clean of dirt and sand. “In fact […]
Jiwon Kim, Steven M. Seitz (University of Washington) and Maneesh Agrawala (Microsoft Research) are working on the Video-Based […]
Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, Ravin Balakrishnan at the University of Toronto have developed a system that allows for […]
Queen’s University ’s Human Media Lab (HML) has created an “attentive” office cubicle that blocks noise and visual […]
Albert Libchaber and his team at Rockefeller University have made the first steps towards creating a form of […]
BioWall is a wall that pulsates beneath people’s fingers, repairs itself and even selfreplicates, by EPFL researchers. Visitors […]
Dr Karl Swann, and a team at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff, claim to […]
Students at the University of Navarre in Spain are developing a device which analyses the brain waves of […]
NASA engineers are developing a technology that picks up and translates throat signals into words before they’re even […]
Ivan Sutherland and Robert Drost, scientists at Sun Microsystems, are challenging the belief that chips need to be […]
Developed at the Media Lab Europe (Dublin), iBand is a wearable device that allows the exchange of information […]
West Virginia-based MD Biotech is developing an ocular scanning instrument that will allow doctors and emergency workers to […]
So far, implanted electrodes are unable to sense consistent neuronal signals for more than a few months. Therefore, […]
Scientists at the Toin University in Yokohama have created the “photocapacitor”, a device that can convert solar energy […]
Forensic scientists of the UK Forensic Science Service are developing a method of linking DNA evidence from a […]
To discover what is real and what is imagined, scientists from the University of Rochester in New York […]
Scientists are developing a technology that could detect changes inside individual cells while those cells are still inside […]
Martin Chatrand, Director of SAT and R&D presented SAT in Montreal (Quebec) a transdisciplinary centre focussing on the […]
Environmental sensors and handheld devices able to detect and identify viruses would provide early warning of infections in […]
Thomas DeMarse, a University of Florida biomedical engineer, has grown a living “brain” with 25,000 living neurons, or […]
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts funds cutting-edge technologies and concepts, some of them sound crazy but might […]
Theodore Berger , a biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), wants to understand nerve […]
Chinese scientists are paying up to $45,000 a gram to place botanical species —including garden vegetables, medicinal herbs […]
A research project, funded by Darpa, the Defense Department’s mad science division, is looking at ways to make […]
UK medical authorities say they might give the go ahead to a scientific experiment that would result in […]
Scientists at the University of Washington are studying how magnetized-beam plasma propulsion, or mag-beam, could enable quick trips […]
Harvard University scientists have asked their ethical review board to be allowed to produce cloned human embryos for […]