Once producing biofuel from algae is economical, researchers estimate that an area the size of New Mexico could provide enough oil to match current U.S. petroleum consumption It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her [...]

At the Chiba Institute of Technology, a group led by Shuro Nakajima has developed a robot wheelchair that can climb over steps. This robot can make a variety of movements, using its four-wheel drive and [...]

Using ultrasound waves, researchers boost skin’s permeability to drugs. Using ultrasound waves, MIT engineers have found a way to enhance the permeability of skin to drugs, making transdermal drug delivery more efficient. This technology could [...]

Contour Crafting concept technology could change the way we construct buildings. Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis from the University of Southern California, has come up with a concept that allows houses to be built faster and with [...]

Videos demonstrating how the time-lapse tool can be used to explore phenomena such as deforestation, urban growth and drying seas can be viewed at http://earthengine.google.org/#intro. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University‘s Robotics Institute, working with colleagues at [...]

Jane McGonigal asks: Why doesn’t the real world work more like an online game?   In the best-designed games, our human experience is optimized: We have important work to do, we’re surrounded by potential collaborators, [...]

All for free   After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he [...]

VaxHit could be applied to 90 percent of all known cancers In a breakthrough development, the Israeli company Vaxil BioTherapeutics has formulated a therapeutic cancer vaccine, now in clinical trials at Hadassah University Medical Center [...]

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo. Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space [...]

More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons — silent strikes on another country’s computer systems that leave behind no trace. (Think of the Stuxnet worm.) At TEDxParis, Guy-Philippe Goldstein shows how cyberattacks [...]

We have the goal cam, the field cam, and the helmet cam. But the best may be still to come: the ball cam. An initial prototype of the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera has been developed [...]

In a bid to promote green energy, engineering students from Palwal City in India’s northern Haryana state, have designed a motorbike that runs on oxygen. The students say their model is a breakthrough invention for [...]