Using this state-of-the-art technique will benefit the agency by saving millions in manufacturing costs. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is using a method called selective laser melting, or SLM, to create intricate [...]

Enzymes from fungi growing on trees filter out medicine residues from sewage and drinking water Months of painstaking work in the laboratory at Bielefeld University‘s Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) have paid off: the 15 students [...]

WORLD’S FIRST NEURAL-CONTROLLED BIONIC LEG In a historic climb, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) research subject, Zac Vawter, will climb 103 floors of the Willis Tower using the first “Bionic Leg”, a neural-controlled prosthetic leg [...]

A new manufacturing technique could help poor countries as well as rich ones EVERY summer, Seattle holds a raft race in Green Lake, a park that is the eponymous home of the water the rafts [...]

Frangioni’s approach is quite different. One of the main forces driving the move to open access is the idea that if the public has already paid for research through taxation or philanthropy, then it’s not [...]

A new company lets you do a short internship at other jobs, no matter how old you are. If you’ve always thought you should be a chef but don’t know how to find out, now [...]

Researchers in Japan have developed a technique which allows them to control and target drug delivery to specific sites of the body at specific times, thus reducing side effects and improving treatment dramatically Better control [...]

An Afghan designer has come up with a novel tumbleweed-esque device to find and detonate mines, a device that has evolved from the wind-powered toys he made as a child. Massoud Hassani’s Mine Kafon is [...]

This isn’t the only prosthesis with an actuated ankle, but the low power is key. The majority of protheses available today that replace the lower leg, ankle, and foot are passive devices that store energy in [...]

New laboratory opens its doors with a symposium, a festival and seven new games MIT has established new game research facilities in the Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories (Building 26), where MIT’s first computer game, Spacewar!, [...]

With 20 years’ notice, paint pellets could cause an asteroid to veer off course. In the event that a giant asteroid is headed toward Earth, you’d better hope that it’s blindingly white. A pale asteroid [...]

“This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare,” This week, science fiction became science fact as a Boeing CHAMP missile knocked out a building full of electronics in the Utah desert at Hill Air [...]