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A tiny wearable scanner has been used to track chemical activity in the brains of unrestrained animals for the first time. By revealing neurological circuitry as the subjects perform normal tasks.
Replacing some of the nuts and bolts in robots’ bodies with stretchy artificial muscles would allow them to be more flexible and lifelike than ever. Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute in New Zealand have succeeded
He found the fossilized remains of micro-organisms not so different from ordinary ones found underfoot -- here on earth, that is.
Ella, now known as the "ice baby" died in the womb and was stillborn. Yet 25 minutes later a miracle occurred: she came back to life. Some people believe that miracles occur every day. Maybe they do happen with that frequency, but to the world at l
There’s no escaping it: though the tractor beam is a staple of sci-fi space-faring scenarios, it’s also extremely counter-intuitive.
This crispy Japanese munchie -- made of thin sheets of seaweed that have been roasted or toasted and lightly salted -- could help your body block fat calories. In a new study, a special fiber found in seaweed appeared to inhibit fat absorption by ove
This particular experiment involved applying heat to the legs of test subjects in order to causepain, then adding a painkiller medication to an IV drip while assessing the subjects' pain levels. When the painkiller drug was present, the test subject
Scientists at Yale University have done what materials scientists have been trying to do for decades – create a material that boasts the look, strength and durability of metal that can be molded into complex shapes as simply and cheaply as plastic. T
Researchers from some of the largest institutions in Texas are trying to help. They recently revealed how cancer begins. It starts with weakened cells. Strands of DNA sometimes get broken through your body’s natural processes. Your cells then send
U.S. government doctors thought it fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients, squirting pandemic flu virus up prisoner's noses and injecting cancer cells into chronically
Earth: 2100. The world is ruled by superhumans with IQs on the high side of 1,000. From their lofty towers they manage the swarming masses. Globs of lower humans controlled from birth to death…at least those that are allowed to live. The sub-humans w
During the first decade of the 21st Century the drive to achieve human immortality has picked up steam. Some see the achievement of immortality by 2050 at the latest. A number of ideas now exist concerning bridging the gap between a finite lifespan a
"Our results impact a broad spectrum of scientific fields, including materials science, transistor technology, laser science, optoelectronics and optical physics," said the study's principal investigator, Connie Chang-Hasnain, UC Berkeley professo
Dr. Maurice Hilleman was a very angry man, and if his 2002 allegations are true he had every right to be. Hilleman made mind-numbing allegations during an in-depth interview in "The Health Century"—a landmark book and later a PBS television series.
Over the past 100 years research biologists have scoured the world in an attempt to find the clues to combating aging, increasing longevity, and bolstering immunity from disease. Their latest scientific find is a tiny village in Ecuador. Almost all c
American violin-making is enjoying a rebirth, craftsmen say, despite the rapidly improving production by fellow makers in China which artisans here see both as a threat -- and a boon -- to their livelihood.
espite being the second largest shark in the ocean, the basking shark is generally considered harmless to humans as it is a filter feeder. It swims with its mouth open to sift zooplankton, small fish and invertebrates from the water before the water
++Conducted by a U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman test team, the flight took off at 2:09 p.m. PST and lasted 29 minutes. This event marks a critical step in the program, moving the team forward to meet the demonstration objectives of a tailless fighter-siz
A group of short-statured Ecuadoreans has surprised scientists, not for its members' dwarfism, but because they are also immune to cancer and diabetes. Now scientists have figured out the group's healthy secret. The individuals have Laron syndrome,
"It is distressing that even in 2011, people are dying unnecessarily from cancers that could be prevented through maintaining a healthy weight, diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors," Martin Wiseman, a WCRF medical and scientific advi
The Skin-cell Gun works essentially like a sophisticated paint spray gun. It was developed by Professor Joerg C. Gerlach and colleages of the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburg’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The conc
A thicker tungsten rod will now require a much bigger spark plug and the widening of the hole in the electrode plates. They are doing this to end mechanical and electrical breakdown of the insulators. They want to press on to 45 kilovolts.
Kurzweil then demonstrated the computer, which he built himself — a desk-size affair with loudly clacking relays, hooked up to a typewriter. The panelists were pretty blasé about it; they were more impressed by Kurzweil's age than by anything he'd
Three huge asteroids are barreling through space on a rendezvous with Earth and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Tens of thousands of asteroids and comets haunt the space ways, some changing their orbits every time they pass near a l
A brilliant research team has just successfully created the world's first prosthetic that obeys the commands given to it from the user's mind. Northwestern University scientists in Evanston, Illinois are researching how different patterns of brain
Health advocates have known for years that the Indian curry spice turmeric has strong anti-inflammatory properties and is beneficial to the circulatory system and is a natural liver detoxifier. Now medical researchers are confirming that one of the c
Scientists at the University of Sydney's Center for the Mind in Australia have created a real-life thinking cap. They did it by jolting the brain with electricity flowing from a strange headpiece with rubber straps and twisted tubes. Although to get
With bird flu, swine flu and recent evidence of dozens of mutations of the parent viruses facing the, harried medical researchers have been playing catch up on worldwide pandemic threats for more than a decade. Now a brilliant team of medical researc
n June of 2009, however, Alu and Engheta proposed a technique for cloaking a sensor that allows the sensor to detect, but not to be seen. Idea behind "cloaking a sensor". The light scattered by the cloak is out of phase with the light scattered by
In a process much like the materials science equivalent of bioengineering, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Ames Lab have figured out how to replace individual atoms in a solid magnetic compund much as biologists tweak and replace individual
