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Designed at Chicago's Toyota Technological Institute, it can help a car figure out its location even when it's under a bridge or going through a tunnel...a useful skill in the coming driverless age.
It is so hot in Death Valley that you can fry an egg outside using nothing but the sun and a skillet.
Participants at a recent two-day event at Stanford University followed the hackathon model to come up with business solutions in the growing field of food innovation.
If degree-of-blindness is measurable (which it is), then researchers should, in fact, measure it and disclose it as part of any study that's purported to be "blinded."
Under what circumstances would I agree to disagree?
Two designers are using unlikely materials -- the shell of a common water pest and a bio-ethanol waste product -- to create a new generation of bioplastics.
Psychiatry's bible is also its worst enemy.
The parents have to go well outside of their comfort zone.
We live in a curious moment when medical progress is making it possible to eliminate many conditions exactly as social progress is making it possible to celebrate them.
The premise of many business books is to boldly go where no business book has ever gone before, to gather more data, to interview more executives, to read more articles […]
If everybody could fly the inability to fly would become a disability.
Neon and fluorescent lighting. Radio. Electric motors. Robotics. These are just a few of the inventions of the Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla that he never got credit for during his lifetime.
Should steroid use be considered, as the philosopher Alva Noe has argued, a natural extension of our technological lives?
While Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley busy themselves making every aspect of our lives more efficient (except, perhaps, for the process of discovering these new technologies, learning them, and integrating […]
This is hardly a breakthrough delivery system. What it represents, however, is a clever application of a technology that has high novelty value.
This past week at The Hill newspaper, Ben Geman analyzed President Obama's speech on climate change, highlighting remarks from environmentalists who welcome Obama's apparent shift in communication strategy. In the […]
Long assumed to be a sterile environment, Lake Vostok may very well host a living ecosystem, according to a new study. If life exists there, it may exist on other planets with similar conditions.
A new Kickstarter campaign seeks $200,000 to propel a CubeSat into Earth orbit and eventually deep space using a miniature propulsion engine.