TECH & INNOVATION

Bionic Ear Helps Boy To Hear For The First Time

TECH & INNOVATION 08.19.2015 00:22 AM

Deaf boy can hear his family for the first time thanks of a newly designed bionic ear. Caiden Moran was born with a hearing impairment that made him deaf until he reached the age of five years old.

NASA Develops Gecko-Inspired Robot

08.18.2015 22:03 PM

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a gecko-inspired robot, Lemur 3, that can perform task along the exterior walls of the International Space Station.

Scientists Design Microbe That Helps In Biofuel Production

08.17.2015 22:54 PM

Scientists have announced they were able to overcome another barrier to commercially viable biofuels through engineering a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a factor of 10.

'Dynamic wireless power transfer' to run in England's major roads

08.17.2015 22:40 PM

Major roads in England will be occupy by the power electric and hybrid vehicles this later this year.

Company Gets Patent For Space Elevator

08.17.2015 22:00 PM

A Canadian company gets U.S. patent for their innovative space elevator technology. Researchers are looking for new ways to access the outer space, more efficient and cheaper.

The Place With The Weakest Magnetic Field On Earth

08.17.2015 00:45 AM

Experiements in the chamber with the weakest magnetic field on Earth could answer fundamental questions for theoretical physics science.

The Future Of Electronics

08.14.2015 00:23 AM

DARPA is working on a project to develop a new generation of vacuum electronic devices. More than 60 years ago, vacuum tubes in radios, computers, and other radio frequency and electronic gadgets began to be overtaken by solid-state electronics.

US Against The Superbugs

08.13.2015 22:30 PM

The U.S. health autorities are confronted with an increase in number of the infections with drug resistant germs called superbugs.

Mother Robot Creates Baby Bots

08.13.2015 21:07 PM

Researchers in robotics and artificial intelligence announced that they were able to create self-replicating robot, a 'mother robot' creating evolving 'baby bots'.

Medical Nanotechnology Breakthrought Will Change Mankind Forever

08.12.2015 21:57 PM

Mankind will be changed forever by the advances in the emerging field of medical nanotechnology. It has been speculated since long by futurists that nanotechnology will revolutionize virtually every field of our lives, medicine making no exception.

After decades: Public to witness NASA's Columbia, Challenger Shuttle Wreckage

08.06.2015 00:14 AM

Nasa's first ever public viewing of the remains of the space shuttle, Columbia and Challenger. In honor and commemoration of the astronauts who died in the flight.

Meet Robo-Bug, the innovation of Water-Strider

08.05.2015 22:46 PM

Researchers now developed a robotic insect that is used to build a small catapult mechanism in the water, just like water-strider do. The said development was an another science outbreak for the micro-robots future.

MIT’s Cheetah Robot can not only Run, It can now jump!

05.30.2015 15:35 PM

The brainy folks at MIT have outdone themselves again. Not only did they develop a robot that can run untethered while mimicking the bounding gate of a quadruped, but now their speedy cheetah can even jump.

Another Distraction for Drivers: The Apple Watch

05.29.2015 16:08 PM

As the movement over texting while driving pushes forward in the U.S., with more and more states adding laws to their books to try to deter this dangerous habit, Canadian police are being hyper vigilant and recently ticketed a man for using his Apple Watch while driving.

Disaster-Mitigating Robots Battle for $2 Million Pentagon Prize

05.29.2015 16:06 PM

On June 5th, the Pentagon will hold the final round of its Robotics Challenge, where 25 teams from around the world will vie for a $2 million prize to see whose robot can perform best amidst a simulated disaster zone. But there's more at stake than just money. The Pentagon hopes one day such robots might save lives.