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How It Works: A Laser-Powered Ear Implant to Boost Hearing
Directly stimulating human cells with light Hearing loss from weapons and explosive devices has been the No. 1 disability in this country's modern military conflicts, saddling thousands of veterans...
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How It Would Work: Creating a Quantum Computer
IBM's 2-D Superconducting Qubit Mounted on a Chip IBM Research via FlickrA working, large-scale quantum computer is still a decade away, but researchers are currently turning a critical corner from...
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What Must a Humanoid Disaster-Response Robot Do to Win DARPA's Challenge?
DARPA has some details about its new Robotics Challenge, which we first told you about last week. Anyone have a robot that can drive a car for a $2 million prize? Formally announced Tuesday, the new...
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Video: Introducing the Carkoon, a Child Car Seat that Wraps Your Child in...
The Carkoon Protect your child with a rapidly deployable cocoon of Kevlar. Worried about the safety rating of that child car seat? Perhaps you should swaddle your progeny in a protective Kevlar cocoon....
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NASA Invests In Satellites That Beam Power Down to Earth
Flower Solar Power This margarita-glass-shaped space setup is nicknamed SPS-ALPHA - the Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array. John Mankins via PhysOrg As spaceborne...
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The Fastest-Ever Random Number Generator Conjures Digits from Subatomic Noise...
Generating Random Numbers from the Vacuum It was once thought that vacuums--like the vacuum of space--contained nothing. No particles, no sound, just empty darkness. But it has since come to light,...
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Canada Launches Its Own Virtual Cash, Called MintChip
Canadian Penny Is No More mrgreen09 via Flickr Next time you visit Canada, you might use digital currency to purchase your poutine, using something called MintChip backed by the Canadian government....
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The ESA Has Lost Contact With Its Earth-Observing Envisat Satellite
Envisat ESA The workhorse of the European Space Agency's earth observation initiative went silent over the weekend, and the agency admits today that it hasn't heard a beep from the aging satellite...
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Students Invent a Pothole Repair Patch Made from a Non-Newtonian Fluid
Pothole Repairs Pothole repair usually involves pouring hot asphalt into holes as a temporary patch. Alan Stanton via Flickr Sometime soon, when you spot a pothole in the street, you won't have to...
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Video: DARPA's Updated Humanoid Hits the Treadmill, Climbs Stairs, Does Push-Ups
It's PETMAN And he's headed straight for us! And otherwise terrifies us If you fear the robot apocalypse, perhaps your day would be much improved if you just moved on. Boston Dynamics' PETMAN robot,...
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Human Eggs Grown in the Lab Could Produce Unlimited Supply of Humans
Fertilized Human Egg A newly fertilized human ovum. Wellcome Images The first human eggs grown from human stem cells could be fertilized with human sperm cells later this year, potentially...
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Pentagon Announces New Strategy: Rapidly Develop Cyberweapons to Attack...
The U.S. Navy's Cyber Defense Operations Command U.S. Navy The Pentagon wants cyberweapons, and it wants them fast. Deftly recognizing that cyberweapons are nothing like the materiel of physical...
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Hands-On: Barnes & Noble's Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight, Uh, Glows, With...
Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight Barnes & Noble Today, Barnes & Noble announced a new upgrade to the (pretty excellent) Nook Simple Touch ebook reader: illumination. The Simple Touch With...
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Which Continent to Put the Largest Radio Telescope On? Why Not Share It
SKA Dishes Artist's concept of the Square Kilometer Array, which will be the world's most powerful radio telescope. SPDO/Swinburne Astronomy Productions Splitting the world's largest radio telescope...
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You Built What?!: A Street-Legal Three-Wheeler That Runs on Nearly 2,000...
Quick Energy The Lithium Hawk's 1,976 batteries can fully charge in as little as 30 minutes. Curtis ComeauThe Canadian Road Hawk Nap Pepin had been waiting on the side of the highway near his Alberta,...
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Q+A: SpaceX Engineer Garrett Reisman on Building the World's Safest Spacecraft
Garrett Reisman, Aboard STS-132 Now at SpaceX, Reisman is using his spaceflight know-how to help build what the commercial space company hopes will be the safest spacecraft the world has ever known....
View ArticleAfter Much Fanfare, North Korea Launches Rocket, Which Falls Apart
Early this morning, North Korea attempted to put a satellite into orbit--or, at least, that's what the DPRK claims, though hardly anybody actually believes that the aim was solely to launch a weather...
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The Thousand-Year-Old Viking Sunstone
Viking Sunstone CojoArt.com A thousand years ago, Vikings navigated with a sunstone, which they used to locate the sun on cloudy days. The stone-a calcite crystal called Iceland spar-funnels light into...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, April 9-13, 2012
Snail Massage The snail massage, available in Siberian Russia, is believed to help eliminate wrinkles and make skin appear more youthful. We can't speak to that, though this picture did gross out a few...
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Why You Might Want a Multi-Core Tablet
Tablet Devices Sam Kaplan The current and next generation of tablets are getting into a core war: three, four, even five cores are going to be popping up in your Android (and possibly iOS and Windows)...
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