To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems? IN 1967 Stanley Milgram, an American social scientist, conducted an experiment in which he sent dozens of packages to [...]

Microsoft’s speech recognizer can correctly identify 86 to 88 percent of the words in arbitrary speech, Rashid said. Ever wondered what you’d sound like if you were fluent in Chinese, French or another language you [...]

Researchers at the University of Tokyo‘s Kamata lab are working on a new wheeled robotic vehicle that can climb stairs. Called the NOBOROT, it uses a proximity sensor to detect when it is next to a step [...]

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 [...]

Wyss Institute Models a Human Disease in an Organ-on-a-Chip Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have mimicked pulmonary edema in a microchip lined by living human cells, as reported [...]

The Mayor’s Challenge is a contest run by Bloomberg Philanthropies to find the best ideas bubbling out of our cities–from data mining to turning foreclosed houses into urban farms. It’s a theme that we’ve touched [...]

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 [...]

“Many of the patients are children who live with pacemakers for many years” An experimental device converted energy from a beating heart to provide enough electricity to power a pacemaker , in a study presented [...]

It’s time to say goodbye to manually creating bricks of unusual shapes for avant-garde structural designs. Amsterdam-based architect Brian Peters has adapted his knowledge of 3D printing onto the architectural landscape by successfully programming a [...]

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 [...]

It may seem as though the German plains are all but tapped out when it comes to wind energy production. To refute this theory researchers are sending stunt kites into the skies to harness the [...]