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There may be a convenient way to satiate your hunger while on the go, but fast food hamburgers appear to offer little in the way of actual meat content, according to a recent study published in the journal Annals of Diagnostic Pathology.
Stem cell technology is promising in many respects and nowhere is that more evident than in the field of dentistry where painful root canals could become a thing of the past if promising advances in treating tooth decay pan out.
Using tiny gold particles and a kind of resin, a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has discovered how to make a new kind of flexible sensor that one day could be integrated into electronic skin, or e-skin.
Black holes are essentially invisible, but astronomers are developing technology to image the immediate surroundings of these enigmas like never before.
Bacteria grown in a dish of fake urine in space behaves in ways never-before-seen in Earth microorganisms, scientists say.
For the past few decades, space exploration has largely focused on building incredible (occasionally incredibly expensive) high-end machines. It’s not hard to see why — machines like Curiosity and its rocket-powered hover crane are amazing accomplish
NASA‘s Curiosity Mars rover may be the agency’s latest space-faring rover, but their newest wheeled robot was recently deployed in the cold depths of Greenland.
The Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) are certainly promising as energy efficient devices to run vehicles in a less polluted way.
According to modern quantum theory, energy fields permeate the universe, and flurries of energy in these fields, called “particles” when they are pointlike and “waves” when they are diffuse, serve as the building blocks of matter and forces. But new
biophotons are used by the cells of many living organisms to communicate, which facilitates energy/information transfer that is several orders of magnitude faster than chemical diffusion. According to a 2010 study, "Cell to cell communication by bi
As we look toward a future of more renewable energy being fed into the grid, having reliable energy storage to back up intermittent wind and solar will be necessary for everything to run smoothly.
This Fourth of July holiday, we planned to kick back with our friends and sip on lots of patriotic cocktails. That is, until our deputy managing editor Elyse shared an app that shows us what alcohol does to our skin. (Thanks Elyse!)
A new running shoe literally puts a spring in your step.
A digital screen that you can fold up like paper, solar cells embedded in house paint and a battery printed on the bottom of your phone —
Marine biologist Paul Sikkel discusses the important role of parasites in coral reef ecosystems.
MakerBot was in full force at the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo where they demonstrated the range of playful and purposeful objects that can be made with 3D printers like MakerBots'.
The expensive olive oil in your kitchen cabinet is likely not as fresh, nutritious or high in quality as you assume it might be.
The psychedelic drug LSD has been called acid, blotter, California sunshine, dots, Electric Kool-Aid and countless other colorful nicknames since it was first sold on the street in the early 1960s.
You know about them, and you probably try to avoid them like the plague, with good reason.
In 36 years with the Los Angeles police, Sgt. Irwin Klorman faced many dangerous situations, including one routine call that ended with Uzi fire and a bullet-riddled body sprawled on the living room floor.
In the remediation of pollutions in the soil and groundwater, minute nanoparticles are being increasingly used that are to convert resp.
Washington: Researchers at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, have tested the reliability of seven techniques against their record of predicting flares and non-flare events correctly, as well as their history of missed flares and false alarms.
A couple professors sound off about the ethics of transplanting one human's head onto another human's body.
Two cancer patients in Boston no longer show any evidence of HIV infection, researchers announce.
A mixture of three cell types self-assembles into a liver bud that can be seen with the naked eye.
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A company in Germany has developed technology that will allow commercials and other announcements to be broadcast directly into train passengers’ heads when they lean against the window.
A couple professors sound off about the ethics of transplanting one human's head onto another human's body.
Five things you need to know about the X-47B, the U.S. military's first unmanned, autonomous combat jet.
This is what happens when police, military folks, and scientists get together to play with very expensive robots.
