Stranger than fiction: British survey shows that large swaths of people believe in light sabers, hoverboards, teleportation and invisibility cloaks. It is often said that reality is far stra... Read more
Real-Life “Marauder’s Map” Has Applications in Health Care, Security Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for tracking the locations of multipl... Read more
In this month’s issue of Physics World, an international group of researchers propose a new technology that could divert vibrations away from load-bearing elements of bridges to avoid catast... Read more
Up until now, the invisibility cloaks put forward by scientists have been fairly bulky contraptions – an obvious flaw for those interested in Harry Potter-style applications. However, resear... Read more
Adlens is about to introduce a pair of inexpensive eyeglasses with both celebrity cachet and a technology that lets you adjust the prescription by just turning a knob. Its John Lennon Collec... Read more
The individual grains would pass messages back and forth and selectively attach to each other to form a three-dimensional object New algorithms could enable heaps of ‘smart sand’ that can as... Read more
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