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Students Create Man-Sized Autonomous Robotic Jellyfish, This Is The Beginning...
Robotic Jellyfish Swims With Its Creators Amanda Loman / Virginia TechIt's 5'7" long and weighs 170 pounds. And it operates by itself. Video within. Students and researchers at Virginia Tech College of...
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Something Is Killing Up To Half Of America's Bees
Bee HiveAndrew McMillan/Wikimedia CommonsWhatever's killing honeybees is getting worse, but we still don't know what it is. There's some kind of environmental issue/plague/apocalypse killing America's...
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The 6 Best Cars From The 2013 New York International Auto Show
An electric hatchback from Mercedes-Benz, the track-ready, street-legal Jaguar XKR-S GT, and more! At this year's New York International Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz debuted its first electric car for the...
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This Week In The Future: One More Mission, Fido
This Week In The Future, March 25-29, 2013BaarbarianIn the future, virus-infected mice will take advantage of our gaming habit. Want to win this addictive Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's...
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Faster-Than-Light Drive
The Warp DriveKris Holland, based on Enterprise Design by Matt JeffriesInstead of using rockets or thrusters, a craft equipped with warp drive would move by distorting space. The warp drive proposed by...
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A Working Transistor Built Out Of DNA Within A Living Cell
DNA Double HelixNational Human Genome Research InstituteWe're this close to having a usable biocomputer. Pretty much anything can be a computer, if it can compute logical functions, store data, and...
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Satellite Gyroscopes Can Give Early Warnings Before Drivers Get Dangerously...
Space Communications EstrellaSat got support from the European Space Agency to develop a way to link the motion sensors on mining vehicles to remote offices via wifi and satellite....
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Today In Important Science: Cats Are Particular About What They Pee On
European WildcatWikimedia CommonsThe European wildcat has a favorite place to pee, just like George Costanza. Cats, and many other mammals, like to pee on things. It's called "urine marking," and acts...
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Data Analysis: What You Should've Done To Get Google Glass
Google Glass A model (i.e., non-winner) using Google Glass. GoogleThe winners of the Google Glass Explorer contest have been announced, and the lucky few get to do a beta run of Google's new gadget....
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First 3-D Acoustic Cloak Hides Objects From Sonar
Sound Waves CloakL. Sanchis et al, via Science NewsIt's just simple plastic rings! This plastic ring system doesn't exactly make the eight-centimeter ball inside less noticeable to the eye-but it does...
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Radiolab Wants Your Help To Track The Once-Every-17-Year Cicada "Swarmageddon"
MagicicadaWikimedia CommonsThe roar of the millions-strong Magicicada is due back on the east coast this summer--the first time in 17 years. Here's how to track it. Every few summers in the heavily...
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In A Future Where Newspapers Still Exist, Let's Deliver Them By Drone
Extra! Extra! Paper route of the future. La Poste GroupDelivering mail with quadcopters may be silly, but the concept is being talked about for real. April Fool's Day sucks, because people on the...
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Watch This Remote-Controlled Robot Dragonfly Tear Up The Skies
Super-light, flapping-wing flight in any direction There's apparently a niche market in robot dragonflies, what with an Indiegogo project for building them blowing past its $110,000 goal with more than...
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NASA Launches Three Military Drones Into An Active Volcano
Launching A Drone Ames research scientist Rick Kolyer launches a Dragon Eye UAV as part of a mission using drones to study an active volcano. NASA/ Matthew FladelandThe drones flew above a volcano's...
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This Sea Lion Is The First Non-Human Mammal That Can Keep A Beat On Its Own
Also she is a very charming sea lion. Meet Ronan. She is a sea lion at the University of California, Santa Cruz and also a very competent dancer. According to her trainer, she's also the first...
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The 6 Most Absurd Military Hoaxes By North Korea And Iran
Qaher-313 Not real. Khouz NewsHow do rogue states compete with a superpower? Photoshop, apparently. Click here to enter the galleryDoctoring photographs is a great April Fools' Day prank, but for some...
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Deep-Space Engines
Novel Propulsion Deep Space 1 was the first craft to use ion thrusters for propulsion. Courtesy NASAPropulsion systems that could carry astronauts to Mars and beyond. STAR-48The fastest chemical rocket...
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Low-Cost Robot Hand Can (Almost) Change A Tire
Ready To Go A screenshot from a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency video of its tire-changing robot Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency via the New York TimesDARPA's three-fingered...
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Melting Glaciers Are Increasing Extent Of Sea Ice In Antarctica, Says...
Sea Ice In the Southern OceanRichard BintanjaCold freshwater from melting Antarctic ice shelves is insulating sea ice from the warming ocean. Climate change is expanding sea ice in Antarctica, a...
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Dirt, Uncovered
Soil Before and AfterLionel Dupuy, The James Hutton InstituteIt's not easy to see what's going on in a handful of dirt, so some labs use gels and other substitutes to grow plants when they study them....
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