Medicine & TechnologyA young boy in Texas recently received a prosthetic hand made by a 3D printer. Keith Harris is five years old and from League City, Texas and was recently the beneficiary of work done by a volunteer group specializing in prosthetics for children with special medical needs.
The U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane landed this week after a record of nearly two years in orbit, yet government officials still haven't commented as to the nature of its mission. The 'orbital test vehicle' is the third such OTV mission, and orbited the Earth for 674 days.
After recent lapses in protocol and judgement allowed a Texas hospital nurse to travel on commercial flights and expose potentially thousands to the deadly Ebola virus, many are beginning to seriously call in to question how the U.S. government has responded to the first ever cases of Ebola on U.S. soil.
One volcano expert is warning that Japan's massive 2011 earthquake--which damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant and caused a nuclear crisis--could cause large volcanic eruptions in the coming years, yet he could not say when people could expect the eruptions to happen.
Apple launched it's new iPad lineup and introduced a new super high-definition iMac at a special event yesterday on its Cupertino campus. During the event, it was also announced that the company's mobile payment platform, Apple Pay, would be launching this Monday, Oct. 20 alongside iOS 8.1.
Google announced its first Nexus tablet in more than a year yesterday, and it looks to be a good one. The Nexus 9 is expected to be a premium tablet in its specs, build, price and performance, a combination that would be a first for Google's Nexus tablets.