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At America's Biggest Drone Show, the Focus Shifts Toward Domestic Skies
How a defense-based industry is preparing to fill the home skies with robots If you want to know what the future looks like, sit down and have a talk with Roy Minson. He's the senior vice president and...
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New York's Newest Bookstore, Singularity&Co., Brings Sci-Fi Back From the Dead
Singularity&Co Bookstore Martha Harbison Much of the oldest and best science fiction stories and novels are, sadly, long out of print. The only way to read them is to dig through second-hand...
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This Week in the Future, August 6-10, 2012
This Week in the Future, August 6-10, 2012 Baarbarian Curiosity wins the gold medal for being just the best Mars rover out there. Way to go, buddy. You've made this a real fun week. Want to win this...
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Jailbreak Your iPhone For New Functions in the Notification Center
Feature Presentation A simple software hack puts text messages, speed dial and frequently used apps in the iPhone's Notification Center. Greg Maxson Jailbreaking-altering an iPhone or iPad's firmware...
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I Am Warplane
The X-47B Click here to see this amazing image even larger. Douglas SondersHow the first autonomous strike plane will land on aircraft carriers, navigate hostile airspace and change the future of...
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Video: NASA's Experimental Morpheus Lander Fails Flight Test by Exploding
Morpheus, Testing its Design Limitations NASALiterally Space exploration doesn't always go smoothly. For instance, the triumph of Apollo 11 was followed by the failed mission and near-disaster of...
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Electronic 'Smart Fingertips' Could Give Robots and Doctors Virtual Touch
Electronic Finger Electronic fingertips could give robots a sense of touch, or allow doctors to operate via virtual touch. John Rogers/University of Illinois The same touchy engineers who gave us the...
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Video: Indestructible Military Inchworm-Bot Survives Attack By Bootheels and...
Meshbot Meshbot is inspired by earthworms. MIT News via YouTube Soft, bendy robots could have a wide variety of benefits, from squishing into tight spaces to conduct surveillance, to crawling through a...
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Researchers Reach the 'Highest Possible' Resolution for Color Laser Printing...
The Lovely Lena Söderberg Resolved at 100,000 dpi via Nature A lot has been written about the perceived benefits and non-benefits of higher-than-the-human-eye-can-perceive resolutions, things like...
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Spotting Cancer Cells in Blood With a 27-Picosecond Camera
The Busy Human Bloodstream National Cancer Institute A simple blood test that offers early detection of cancer in the human body has long eluded medical researchers, but a team at UCLA is getting...
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New Algorithm Predicts Your Future Movements Within 65-Foot Accuracy
App's average error is just the distance between home plate and the pitcher's mound Plenty of hay has been made over which apps and cell phones track our movements, but so far it has been difficult to...
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How to Teach a Robot to Improvise
Evasive Maneuvers Click here to see this amazing image even larger. Graham MurdochDrones are learning the difference between a car and a tree--and how to make their next moves Self-piloted drones have...
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Researchers Smash Quantum Teleportation Distance Record, Beaming a Photon...
The European Southern Observatory's Optical Ground Station at Tenerife Was Used in the Experiments H. Raab via Wikimedia The Olympics are over but international competition is still hot and records...
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Interactive Infographic: How Do Olympic Gold Medalists Compare?
See how these Games have stacked up to others years, and how players have used technology and strategy to take gold Now that the Olympics are done, we can reflect on the big moments. (Usain Bolt's...
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Mutant Butterflies are Turning Up in Japan's Nuclear Disaster Zone
Mutant Butterflies Something doesn't look right. via Nature The first serious indications of the ecosystem impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan are in, and they're troubling. Researchers...
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The Ten Weirdest-Named Shark Species
Bowmouth Guitarfish The bowmouth guitarfish is actually a ray, though due to its shark-like body is sometimes called a shark ray. It's just about the coolest-looking shark there is (science). It's...
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Video: Disney's 3-D Facial Scruff Technology Reconstructs Beards Down to the...
Disney's 3-D Facial Hair Reconstruction Technology via Disney Research Face capture technology has come a long way, especially as 3-D stereoscopic imaging and the like have made leaps forward in recent...
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With New Programming, Autonomous Airplanes Can Navigate on the Fly With No GPS
Self-Navigating Drone MIT Self-piloted drones may be able to land or fly almost anywhere -- even aircraft carriers -- but they need some complex navigation skills to do it, including the somewhat...
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Museum Relics Prove Pacific Sharks Died Out Before We Knew They Were There
Dusky Shark Wikimedia Commons Dusky sharks do not live in the Pacific waters near the Republic of Kiribati. Neither do spottail sharks, nor the aptly named bignose sharks. But they used to live there...
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Strange, Unexplained Solar Influence Over Earth's Radioactive Material Could...
Gigantic Solar Flare On August 9, 2011 at 3:48 a.m. EDT, the sun emitted an Earth-directed X6.9 flare, as measured by the NOAA GOES satellite. These gigantic bursts of radiation can disrupt the...
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