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America’s got pretty good at using drones to hunt and kill big tangible things, but Hellfire missiles and Reapers aren’t all that good at tracking little insects. But that hasn’t stopped researchers from using drones to help fight the spread of infectious disease. Live Science has
We geeks all have the same platonic prosthesis ideal: Luke Skywalker’s badass Star Wars mech-hand. We’re getting there, bit by bit. Dennis Aabo Sørensen’s new hand is almost there; it let him feel again. The hand is the subject of an in-depth paper published in the journal Science
There was a time when the minds of chess masters were arguably the most complex thinking machines in the world. Technology has changed that and now computers have reshaped the game. For his precocity, newly crowned World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen was named “The Mozart of chess”. For his tenacity
Car Force One is a luxury car service that chauffeurs you around New York City in the most teched-out car in the world. Taking customer satisfaction to a new level, the car offers video games, cable TV, a full-size keyboard, a photo printer, beer, strobe lights, and a heck of a lot more. Sometimes y
Heart disease often leads to heart attacks, and hearts attacks kill heart muscle cells, this is why half of the people who survive heart attacks die within 5 years. For years researchers have been trying to find a way engineer heart tissue that they could use to patch up damaged hearts, but theyR
A team at the University of Bristol has created and EcoBot that is power by a microbial fuel cell. The fuel cell contains microorganisms that digest urine and generate electrons which are then harvested to produce an electrical current. There’s a new use for artificial hearts, and it involves
With a name like the Black Hornet you’d expect this bit of military hardware to be dangerous and intimidating but in reality this tiny UAV only weighs 2.1 ounces and can fit in a soldier’s pocket. Weighing only 2.1 ounces (16 grams), the Black Hornet looks like a tiny toy helicopter. But
3D printing has just recently started started to see mainstream use but the US Army is already pushing for advances in 4D printing. The U.S. Army Research Office has awarded $855,000 to three universities to make advances in 4D printing, which is the ability to 3D-print objects that can change their
They won’t be able to fly and they won’t have energy beams coming out of their palms, but the US Army and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are putting together suits that will enhance soldiers in combat. If you’ve always wanted a high-tech suit of armor that will make you
