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The bright green goop is the very bottom of the ocean food chain. It’s also the latest delicacy. What disturbed chef Angel León most about Spanish fishermen was all the unwanted species they tossed back into the ocean. High-value species went to market; the rest went overboard. These dead fish would never be coming up

Lockheed Martin is putting an updated, ruggedized version to its HULC Robotic Exoskeleton through lab evaluation tests. The hydraulic “power-suit” now boasts better protection from the elements, improved fitting and easier adjustment, increased run-time and new control software. One of several exoskeletons in development for both military and civilian applications, the HULC (short for Human Universal Load

Wood may seem more at home in log cabins than modern architecture, but a specially treated type of timber could be tomorrow’s trendy building material. Today, scientists report a new kind of transparent wood that not only transmits light, but also absorbs and releases heat, potentially saving on energy costs. The material can bear heavy

Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed a new robot whose source code and design plan is publicly accessible. It is intended to facilitate the entry into research on humanoids, in particular, the TeenSize Class of the RoboCup. The scientists recently introduced the new robot at the IROS Conference (International Conference on Intelligent

The ultimate goal is hPYY medication that obese people can take orally Researchers plan to create chewing gum that sneaks an appetite-suppressing hormone through the gut and into the blood Losing weight is not always about anticipating swimsuit season or squeezing into skinny jeans—for the clinically obese, losing weight is about fighting serious illness and

United States Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx called it “the next great advance in saving lives.” A driver moves along in traffic, the forward view blocked by a truck or a bend in the road. Suddenly, up ahead, someone slams on the brake. Tires screech. There is little time to react. Researchers here are working to

How a disease outbreak affects a group of animals depends on the breakdown of ages in the population, an animal study has shown. The findings could help scientists better understand how events such as disease outbreaks may affect certain groups in a population. Scientists sought to examine how a spread of ages can influence a

UCSD scientists announced last week that a metabolism-boosting protein, PCG-1?, may help restore cell function in individuals afflicted by Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Lou Gehrig’s disease, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a progressive, fatal, adult-onset disease that occurs in roughly 0.0015 percent of the human population, and roughly the same percent of the population in mice