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Make Electronics Components Pack: for Budding Inventors, Modders and Hackers
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Are you the type of person who’s curious about what makes gadgets work? Love tearing stuff down? Would you like to build your own gadgets? Then you might want to get yourself one of Make’s Electronics Components packs, the perfect complement to their Electronics Book, which lets you dive into… |
February 28th, 2010
Forget P2p, Here’S B2b: Brain-to-Brain Communication
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We can now add telepathy to the list of things that’s possible thanks to the Internet. Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have demonstrated that it is possible to transmit thoughts from one person’s brain to another person’s brain using nothing but pieces of tape, a couple… |
October 26th, 2009
Mouseneto: Variable Gravity Simulator Successfully Levitates Mice
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Scientists working for NASA have built a “variable gravity simulator” powerful enough to levitate drops of water up to 2 inches wide, and even young mice. The device is made of a “superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals.” I don’t know… |
September 11th, 2009
Big Science at Neatorama: Expensive, Complicated & Awesome
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The latest Neatorama exclusive talks about large-scale experiments and research and the massive and complex equipment that they require. I’m pretty sure that you’ve already heard of most of them, like the Hubble Telescope, the International Space Station, or the US and USSR’s space race, that culminated in the Apollo… |
July 15th, 2009
Robot Learns to Make Facial Expressions, is Rewarded With a Measly “Signal”
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At least dogs get food when they get things right. This poor robot Einstein, made by computer scientists from the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, was given time to play with its 31 artificial facial muscles while “staring” at its reflection in the mirror. The… |
July 10th, 2009
Study on Salamanders May Hold Key to Human Tissue Regeneration – or a Monster.
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In a study published in Nature magazine, a group of scientists revealed that human cells may be induced to regenerate appendages in the same way that salamanders do. Meaning we can also grow salamander limbs. Kidding. Apparently the cells on the stumps of a salamander “only” need to revert to… |
July 3rd, 2009
Experiment Reveals Gray Hair Means Damaged Dna – So Baldness Means Lack of Dna?
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Can mental or emotional stress damage our DNA? An experiment has shown that the presence of gray hair means that the melanocyte stem cells in hair follicles – that ones that become melanocytes that give color to hair - have badly damaged DNA. In response, our body forces these DNA… |
June 12th, 2009
Ace the Robot Does What Male Drivers Won’T: Ask for Directions
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Martin Buss and his team at the Technical University of Munich created a robot that relies on help from humans to get to its destination. The robot is called Autonomous City Explorer or ACE, and while it looks really ugly, it’s one of the first robots that’s proven successful in… |
May 15th, 2009
Out of Body Experience: Machine Keeps Disembodied Animal Hearts Beating
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have invented a machine that can keep an animal heart functional even after it has been removed from its body. Freaky. Andrew Richards, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, designed the “dynamic heart system”, which “pumps fluid through a pig heart so that it… |
May 15th, 2009
Somniloquy: the Future Will be Filled With Environment-Friendly Pirates
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People leave their computers on for a long time for various valid reasons: when backing up, scanning malware, reformatting and restoring because the malware couldn’t be removed, installing SP3 for the third time, downloading a large file via torrent, and being infected again. And that’s the digital circle of life.… |
April 29th, 2009
