Doctors and scientists in Southampton have completed their first hip surgery with a 3D printed implant and bone stem cell graft. The 3D printed hip, made from titanium, was designed using th... Read more
A discovery that can fundamentally change how drugs for arthritis, and potentially many other diseases, are made In a discovery that can fundamentally change how drugs for arthritis, and pot... Read more
Axis makes searching more visual With its new search/browser app Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company. Late in... Read more
This technology is a game changer in exposure health studies For decades now, scientists have been monitoring air pollution in order to better understand how atmospheric contaminants affect... Read more
A voice-enabled future VLAD SEJNOHA is talking to the TV again. O.K., maybe you’ve done that, too. But here’s the weird thing: His TV is listening. “Dragon TV,” Mr. Sejnoha says to the scree... Read more
SMU’s David Blackwell touts nationwide geothermal energy potential at Capitol Hill science briefing SMU Geothermal energy expert David Blackwell gave a Capitol Hill briefing Tuesday, March 2... Read more
“Solar has dropped like a stone” About a year ago the CEO of power company NRG Energy, David Crane, said he thought that the future of the green technology industry would rest on consumers,... Read more
But I think this could be massively significant. All wags are waxing on about Apple launching into the education books business or the textbook business on 19 January at an event in t... Read more
The winning team will get a $10,000 prize The idea is to extend the Kinect’s potential uses from gaming to things like interpreting lipreading and sign language as well as determining... Read more
The next version of Kinect will be able to read your lips and facial expressions Remember that scene in Minority Report when Tom Cruise manipulates 3-D images in mid-air simply by mov... Read more
Scientists aim to create biofuel Tiny green algae grown in floating plastic bags may one day wean us from our voracious fossil fuel consumption. Such is the vision of Jonathan Trent,... Read more
Boy am I really starting to hate that Chicken Little It looks like Chicken Little may have gotten it right after all. This time, the proverbial sky may actually be falling. According... Read more
Game Changers Advances in transportation technology are game changers. The advent of steam railways opened up the centers of the continents to settlement because it became economic to cultiv... Read more
Image by Axel Bührmann via Flickr TIM NICHOLS measures fun. A slim, 32-year-old psychologist, he spends his days behind a one-way mirror at Microsoft’s video games research center here, watc... Read more
Image via Wikipedia There’s some big news about Line2, the iPhone app I reviewed in March. As I’m sure you remember, I wrote: For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to shak... Read more