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Today On Mars: Opportunity Begins Its 10th Year Of Mars Roving
Opportunity: A Simulated Self-PortraitNASACuriosity may get all the kudos these days, but the wizened Opportunity rover continues to log miles on the Martian surface. Today on Mars the robotic rover...
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A Geek's Guide To Fashion Week
Haute Technology The 3-D printed cape of the future. StratasysDutch designer Iris van Herpen uses 3-D printing to make out-of-this-world fashion. Dutch designer Iris van Herpen has been known to use...
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The Latest In Classroom Protection: A Handheld Bulletproof Whiteboard
Bulletproof Whiteboards Next up: A calculator that's also a subcompact Glock? HardwirePerfect for differential equations, group vocabulary exercises, and stopping a 9mm round at close range. File this...
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Why Do We Want To Squeeze Cute Things?
Egbert Don't you just want to pinch his little hamster cheeks? Keith Pomakis via Wikimedia Commons Studying how adorable animals can turn us aggressive Seeing something cute actually does bring out...
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The Weather Outside Today Affects Your Stance On Climate Change
Calved Iceberg An iceberg in or just outside the Ilulissat fjord that likely calved from Jakobshavn Isbrae, the fastest glacier in west Greenland. It is rumored that it was an iceberg from this glacier...
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New Gene Therapy Braces T Cells Against HIV
HIV-1 Budding From Cultured LymphocyteCDCIt's not a cure, but researchers hope inserting a few genes into T cell receptors can keep HIV cells at bay. Researchers at the Stanford University School of...
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Does Lightning Cause Headaches?
Head CaseWikimedia Commons A new study finds a link between lightning and migraines. Some people say they can feel storms coming. New research indicates chronic headache suffers might be able to sense...
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Breakthrough Study That Found Consciousness In Vegetative Patients Was Flawed
Electroencephalography, or EEGPetter Kallioinen via WikimediaA reanalysis by a second research group suggests a 2011 study that used EEG to detect consciousness in three vegetative patients was fooled...
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IBM's Warmth-Activated Gel Can Break Up Tough Bacterial Biofilms And Kill...
Busting A Biofilm On the left is a mature and healthy MRSA biofilm. After the hydrogel is applied, the biofilm is destroyed, as seen on the right. The small portion of remaining cells have drastically...
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Interactive Floor Lets You Play Games With Your Upside-Down Self
Play soccer, knock over some dominoes, and more activities you and Mirror You can enjoy. "Smart" floors that monitor your movements might not be practical for a while yet, but this one seems like a lot...
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In An Era Of Climate Change, Where Will The Fish, And The Money, Go?
How fish adapt to a warming world is top of mind for governments eager to profit off of a robust fishing industry. Will climate change rule in their favor? Like the American pika and some other...
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Dung Beetles Navigate By The Stars
Straight RollingWikimedia Commons Views of the Milky Way provide more than just ambiance for the fecal-foraging insect. Celestial navigation has guided man around the world for several thousand years....
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GameSci: How To Preserve A Game You Can't Pick Up And Hold
The Art Of Videogames Exhibit At The Smithsonian American Art MuseumBlake Patterson/Wikimedia CommonsThe hardware will die so the software can live. In March, the Museum of Modern Art will be showing...
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FDA Approves First Robot For Hospital Use
Robo-DoctorBusiness WireBecause you've always wanted to see your doctor through an iPad. Robots are taking over the world. Robo-nurses have been around for a while, but in the quest to make healthcare...
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BeerSci: What Is The Difference Between A Lager And An Ale?
Beersci LogoTodd DetwilerHint: it has nothing to do with the beer's flavor. For the average beer drinker, the difference between an ale and a lager comes down to how the beer looks, smells, and tastes....
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Researchers Make Super-Realistic Artificial Lung Tissue By Levitating Cells
3D Reconstruction Of LungsAndreas Heinemann/Wikimedia CommonsA new way to give 3-D structural integrity to vat-grown tissue. Traditionally, cell cultures have been made in a 2-D petri dish. Problem is,...
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Watch This Stretchable Wire Heal Itself
Inventors: do this to gadget chargers immediately. One of the biggest problem with wires? They break. Enter these self-healing wires from North Carolina State University. The wires have a liquid-metal...
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A History Of Spacesuits, In Pictures
Space Race Mars-ready spacesuits, as imagined in 1954. Fred FreemanBrett Gooden 's Spacesuit: A History through Fact and Fiction traces the evolution of early spacewear. We've been working on fashion...
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A Robot Lumberjack And Other Amazing Photos From This Week
Robot Lumberjack This robot not only chops wood, but chops wood into hand-crafted (steel-crafted? arm-crafted?) stools. Read about it here. Tom Pawlofsky and Tibor Weissmahr via Co.DesignIncluding a...
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A Map Of The Internet Universe [Infographic]
You Are HereInternet Universe/E. ElertIf the biggest 350,000 web sites on the internet were real places, this is what the map would look like As of last year, there were something like 650 million...
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