Meld is a kitchen gadget that promises to make precise cooking easier, thanks to a smart knob that works in conjunction with a temperature probe.
An Automatic Stove Knob Keeps Your Burner At The Right Temperature
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Google's Driverless Cars Are Learning How To Avoid Cows
When it comes to self-driving cars, the possibilities are seemingly limitless. In the past year, we've heard all kinds of interesting announcements, including prototype…
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Aluminum-Ion Batteries Are Flexible, Fast-Charging, And Won't Catch On Fire
Researchers at Stanford have made a promising breakthrough with flexible, safe aluminum-ion batteries, but they're still a ways from common adoption.
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IARPA Wants A Magical All-In-One Chemical Detection Tool
America’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency is filled with a bunch of nerds. At the very least, they’ve got a Lord of the Rings fan in their acronym-making…
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Urban Drivers Are Emitting Way More Carbon Dioxide Than We Thought
Cities, with their dense populations and public transit systems are often seen as hotbeds of green innovation--places where bicycles, subways, and light rail are…
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Tracking Tag Uses Cell Towers Instead Of GPS To Find Your Stuff
iTraq, a credit-card-sized tracking tag, uses cellular networking to locate your belongings anywhere in the world it can get a cell signal.
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NASA Chief Scientist Is Sure We'll Find Alien Life Within 20 Years
NASA is certain: We’re not alone in this universe.
Speaking at a public panel on Tuesday in Washington D.C., NASA scientists discussed the likelihood of finding organic…
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Build An Umbrella Stand That Outsmarts The Rain
It’s all too easy to forget an umbrella on a rainy day. But this is the 21st century—shouldn’t your umbrella remind you when it’s needed? Well, yes, it should. And it can do that via a stand that lights up when the forecast calls for rain.
There are several ways to make a smart umbrella stand, but the easiest uses littleBits modules, miniature circuit boards that snap together with magnets. The stand communicates with an online weather forecast through the Internet-connected cloudBit module and a service called IFTTT (short for “If This Then That”), which helps Web applications talk to one…
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Glowing ‘Tumor Paint’ Shows Surgeons Where To Cut
Brain surgery is notoriously complicated. Before surgeons go in to remove a tumor, they study the size and location of the tumor. But once they’re in, they have to rely on…
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Testing Avalanches On The Slopes And In The Lab [Video]
For winter sports enthusiasts, there is nothing scarier than the prospect of an avalanche. As the New York Times documented in its epic feature "Snow Fall", avalanches can…
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Flipping The Switch In A Common Virus Could Mean Safer Organ Transplants
For people with a healthy immune system, cytomegalovirus (CMV) doesn’t present much of an issue. It’s transmitted through bodily fluids and, though it remains in the body for a person’s entire life, the immune system causes the virus to stay dormant. But for people with a weakened immune system, such as people with a transplanted organ, CMV can cause an active infection.
Now researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have figured out a molecular switch for the virus, forcing it into dormancy when a person’s immune system isn’t able to do so on its own. The…
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India Undocks Its First Stealth Submarine
If everything goes as planned, no one will see India’s new navy coming. The nation is committed to building a stealthy fleet, and now that vision has come one step closer…
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Intel's CEO Unleashes Gesture-Controlled Spiderbots
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich demonstrated his control over spiderbots at the company's developer forum in Shenzhen, China.
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Early Apple Watch Reviews Are Full Of Promise, And A Few Gripes
The early reviews of the Apple Watch are in, and though they're a mixed bag, most agree that this is the smartwatch to beat.
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Did A Giant Asteroid Impact Make Earth's Rock Crust Splash Like Water?
Over 65 million years ago, when a 6-mile wide asteroid slammed into the earth with the force of a billion atomic bombs, it left a crater 110 miles wide.
The Chicxulub crater, just off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, is best known for being the landing site of the massive asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. But it is also one of the larger and better preserved impact craters on earth.
Next year, geologists plan to drill into the crater just off the coast, and get a better look at how the crater actually formed right after the giant impact.
Right now the thinking for how an asteroid…
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Watch The Elaborate Process Of Changing An IMAX Lightbulb
IMAX movies are awesome, and the projection equipment used to screen everything from blockbusters to nature films is equally impressive. The bulb of an IMAX projector is so…
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Marines Test Specialized Radar For Fighting Drones
For decades, infantry’s problem with planes has been that they’re hard to reach because they’re far away. Anti-aircraft weapons must be used to keep bombers and fighters…
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150 Years After the Civil War: Reflections on Medical Care
Today is the sesquicentennial of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at the Appomattox Court House, which marked the beginning of the end of the American Civil War. For the past few…
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Sound Waves Could Help Detect Hard-To-Find Cancer Cells
Finding cancer cells in the blood can be nearly impossible. Just 1 milliliter of blood contains about 5 billion red blood cells, and only about one to 10 cancer cells. But detecting these circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is critical, so that doctors can determine whether someone has cancer, what stage it's at, and if a treatment is working effectively.
In the future, doctors hope that by sequencing the genomes of these CTCs, they'll be able to prescribe treatments that are individually tailored to target each patient's cancer. Now, a new device that uses sound waves to separate CTCs from the…
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Shark Attacks Are So Unlikely, But So Fascinating
Sharks are incredibly unlikely to bite you. They’re even less likely to kill you. However, we remain fascinated with their ability--and occasional proclivity--to do just…
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