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Scientists have trained an entire flock of pigeons to pick out diseased breast tissue with an accuracy rate of up to 99%.
What you're about to read will probably shock you to your core. We're all familiar with genetically modified organisms in food, and we've even heard talks about genetically modified animals coming down the pipeline
To make the drug affordable for millions of diabetics worldwide
Physicians say these ads do more harm than good
Like a FitBit that listens to your body from the inside
The key to private space delivery may be terrible geopolitics.
Scientists in China discover a gene that enables resistance to move between bacteria which is likely to spread worldwide, they warn
In a world where lasers are sci-fi's weapon of choice for melting away an enemy spaceship (sometimes even translating to the real world), researchers at the University of Washington have swum against the current and produced the first laser capable o
Aerion, the supersonic-jet maker backed by Texas billionaire Robert Bass, plans to choose a manufacturing site during the first half of next year as it targets delivering the first faster-than-sound business aircraft in 2023.
in a DECADE, Mark Zuckerberg claims. Facebook is set to become a lot more intelligent - and could outperform humans within ten years, Mark Zuckerberg has claimed. In an interview with Fast Company, the Facebook founder revealed the firm's huge in
Here are 6 awesome new futuristic inventions and technologies that are available to us now. Featured in this video - The Hoverboard, The all in one Portable Car Jump Starter, a Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker, Bluetooth Headphones, Unlimited Hand, and S
Here are 6 awesome new futuristic inventions and technologies that are available to us now. Featured in this video - The Hoverboard, The all in one Portable Car Jump Starter, a Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker, Bluetooth Headphones, Unlimited Hand, and S
Here are 6 awesome new futuristic inventions and technologies that are available to us now. Featured in this video - The Hoverboard, The all in one Portable Car Jump Starter, a Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker, Bluetooth Headphones, Unlimited Hand, and S
Practical quantum computers are still years away, but lately the pace of research seems to have picked up.
A volunteer firefighter badly burned in a 2001 blaze has received the most extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much of his neck, a New York hospital announced Monday.
The statistical view does, however, tell us that mental illness is epidemic in our culture, that an enormous economy has risen around the mainstream medical approaches to treating mental illness, and that this industry does not appear to be effective
"This humble, but immensely powerful seed, kills MRSA, heals the chemical weapon poisoned body, stimulates regeneration of the dying beta cells within the diabetic's pancreas, and yet too few even know it exists," the article summarized the peer-r
Unique porous fluid could suck up and lock away unwanted molecules
Probably not grain storage...or a Stargate
Biotech company Editas Medicine is planning to start human trials to genetically edit genes and reverse blindness
A Pipboy for the pre-apocalypse
- it can grow hundreds of real diamonds in 2 weeks
Researchers Achieve Long-Distance Teleportation and Quantum Entanglement With Twisted Photons
Performance clothes will never be the same
Ryan Chester's video won him and his school $400,000 from leading tech titans
When I wrote about DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program in Popular Science back in 2007, the editors, without running it by me first, called it out on the cover with a headline that sold the project as creating a "bionic arm that's bette
In the murky depths of Lake Michigan, around 15 feet below the surface, Brian Murphy is examining the various thickets of seaweed and vibrantly coloured sponges clinging to the sides of an old wooden cargo ship.
Researchers from Donghua University in China have constructed a self-folding sheet of graphene-based paper. You know what that means? Self-folding origami.
A five-year-old savant who is apparently displaying signs of telepathy is being studied by scientists after his mother posted videos online showing him reciting random numbers 'written in secret'.