As leading-edge neuroimaging labs use scanners to reveal more and more details about how the brain works, their findings are increasingly affecting other fields as well. The legal system, in particular, is now being forced to assess the potential implications of new information about how issues relating to crime and punishment are processed in the brain…
The past few weeks have been a flurry of activity for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. With all of the recent activity, and with the competition just having celebrated its third “birthday,” now seems like a good time for an update…
Ray Ozzie, who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft’s chief software architect in 2006, is leaving the company, although Microsoft has not disclosed the date of his departure…
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“New Mexico is not only helping to launch the commercial spaceflight industry, but we are launching new jobs and opportunities for the people of southern N.M.,” Gov. Richardson said in a press release…
The Economist Innovation Awards Ceremony 2010 was held on Oct 21 in London, and had a special new category for the invention that would most impact the next decade. This was awarded to 4G, represented by Alex Lightman…
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created bio-compatible LED arrays that can bend, stretch, and even be implanted under the skin. While this might cause some people to immediately think “glowing tattoos!”, the arrays are actually intended for activating drugs, monitoring medical conditions, or performing other biomedical tasks within the body. Down the road, however, they could also be incorporated into consumer goods, robotics, or military/industrial applications.
On Wednesday night, Steve Jobs launched Apple’s latest uber-gadget. But the world’s most famous chief executive brandished not an iPhone or an iPad – instead it was a laptop that…
A new report calls on NASA to establish a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to lead national and international efforts in protecting Earth against impacts by asteroids and comets…
The world’s largest atom smasher has been upping its game ever since it opened in 2008. Just last week it reached a new milestone – the particle accelerator is now smashing unprecedented numbers of protons into each other during each collision.
The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland is the world’s most state-of-the-art physics experiment. Scientists are crashing matter’s building blocks together in the hopes of revealing even smaller building blocks – new undiscovered particles that make up our universe, including the theoretical "God particle," which is thought to give other particles mass.
ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2010) — Twisting spires, concentric rings, and gracefully bending petals are a few of the new three-dimensional shapes that University of Michigan engineers can make from carbon nanotubes using a new manufacturing process.
If NASA ever gets a clear directive for interplanetary exploration, a new Hundred-Year Starship could be their version of the Mayflower. And like the first pilgrims, Martian explorers might set sail with the knowledge they would never return home.NASA and DARPA have joined forces to build something called a Hundred-Year Starship, according to the director of NASA’s Ames Research Center. Simon “Pete” Worden said NASA contributed $100,000 to the project and DARPA kicked in $1 million.
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