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The pocket-sized breathalyzer uses sensors to measure and calculate acetone levels -- a key indicator of fat breakdown -- and sends data to a smartphone app within 10 seconds.
Do you ever stay up late and then curse yourself the next morning when your alarm clock wakes you up? Jerry Seinfeld has the same problem. He’s got a pretty […]
If it runs Android, you can install an app, created by designers at the University of California-Berkeley, that will let the phone crunch data during downtime.
A built-in webcam captures the person's face, then tweaks the expression using software. Tests showed that subjects were more likely to "like" a garment when they saw themselves smiling in the mirror.
Virginia Military Institute professors have designed a rover that attracts and kills ticks as it crosses an area. Tests show a kill rate of between 75 and 100 percent.
For five months out of every year, the citizens of Rjukan live in the shadow of neighboring mountains. That won't be the case this year.
Would you kill a baby if you knew he would grow up to be Hitler?
To truly help developing societies, we need to answer their immediate needs.
We are sitting on "an economic time bomb."
Is abortion the most futile policy debate ever? Sometimes I wish the entire country would enter collective, premature menopause just to end it, already. The anti-abortion initiatives and state laws […]
I’ve come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor.
This is the basis of what we call creativity: not a deus ex machina scrawling on a tabula rasa, but the mind’s constant search for interesting new ways of grouping the data we’re constantly taking in.
As an artist I’m more excited then scared about how it’s going to affect the business model or my bottom line.
It doesn’t take a study to explain that being better able to listen to and understand others will make you more successful in your career and your relationships.
"Flipper" isn't one of them: A team of Scottish scientists report that the animals' distinctive whistles help label each other, allowing them to stay connected while swimming in a group.
After investigating deadly school bus accidents, the National Transportation Safety Board made recommendations for the development of connected-vehicle technology.
According to a news report, local officials are promoting them throughout the region because they say they are better at protecting homes and property than dogs.
A first-of-its-kind study warns that just one massive greenhouse gas emission could be enough to devastate the global economy.
Not only are machines rapidly catching up to — and exceeding — humans in terms of raw computing power, they are also starting to do things that we used to […]