Showering just got easier with this new soap-repellant coating
Engineers Philip Brown and Bharat Hushan have just developed a coating that lets soap and shampoo slide out of their plastic container with ease.
China is on track to launch a second space station into orbit in September
China ticked a couple more boxes on its space program checklist this weekend, as it gears up to send a second space station into orbit this September.
Meet Toru, the German robot that’s picking through your packages
Toru is a line of automated warehouse robots whose creators hope will make the picking and shipping industry far more efficient.
Researchers accidentally develop a material that may help fight water shortages
By accident, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers discover an astounding material that sucks moisture right out of the air.
Autonomous machines may help Japan colonize Mars
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) commissioned construction company Kajima to build autonomous, extraterrestrial construction machinery.
To boost wind energy production, China needs to build turbines where the wind isn’t strong
Despite being a world leader in wind power, China consumes so much energy that wind supplied just three percent of the country’s overall electricity demand last year. But China has the potential to harness wind and exceed its 2030 goal by up to six percent
This bizarro bicycle reinvents the wheel … as a set of spider legs
When Carv began developing the Strandbeest-inspired walking bike in 2014, it couldn’t have known the beast that it would create.
Bend it, twist it, generate electricity with it — these nanogenerators may make energy easy
Shape adaptive triboelectric nanogenerators (saTENGs) are the newest outcrop of Zhong Lin Wang’s TENG technology, which he developed four years ago.
Equimetre is an AI-powered wearable that aims to bring horse races into the 21st century
The creators of the Equimetre are now developing a smart device – like those for human athletes – scaled up for equine.
With help from this AI assistant, doctors can diagnose breast cancer with near perfect accuracy
The researchers trained their system on 300 slides of lymph node biopsies. The result was an AI that could detect breast cancer with 92 percent accuracy.
After watching 600 hours of TV, this AI program can predict when people will hug or high five
Turns out, shows like “The Office” and “Desperate Housewives” are worth more than their entertainment value.
Good news, robots! Humans like you more when they build you themselves
You’ll like your robot more if you build it yourself, according to a new research from Pennsylvania State University.
Bad drivers beware: this AI-powered dashcam app is watching you
Nexar uses your smartphone camera as a dashcam, to capture the road around you and feed that footage to AI algorithms and a machine vision system.
The end of sexual reproduction could be 20 years away, claims bioethicist
Stanford law professor and bioethicist Hank Greely says designer babies may be closer than we think.
Mosha the elephant goes mobile with a prosthetic leg
If it’s true what they say about elephants and memory, Mosha will never forget her surgeon, Therdchai Jivacate.
Renewable energy may overtake fossil fuels by 2040, according to report
In the next quarter-century, coal and gas prices will remain low, but not low enough to prevent a transformation in the electricity system.
Boeing's solar-powered airplane looks ridiculous, but it might just be crazy enough to work
The aerospace giant just filed a patent for a “Solar Powered Airplane,” that borrows aspects from NASA's design while innovating to overcome some of the Pathfinder's failures.
NASA offers $500K to anyone who can grow lifelike human tissue for space experiments
NASA hopes to study this tissue in an effort to make deep space travel safer and save astronauts from extreme experimentation.
Iceland is fighting climate change by capturing CO2 and turning it into stone
Iceland’s CarbFix project pumps CO2 into volcanic rock, where the gas reacts with calcium, magnesium, and iron in basalt to create solid carbonate minerals.
India is building a $60 million supercomputer that will help predict monsoons
India will adopt a $60 million supercomputer with 3D modeling to help predict next year’s monsoons.
Israel’s new ‘RoBattle’ bot is built with swappable modules that change its abilities
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has developed RoBattle, an unmanned ground vehicle that may soon help support soldiers.
‘Sunspring’ is an absurd sci-fi short film written by AI, starring Thomas Middleditch
Sunspring won’t likely win an Oscar but makes an entertaining short from an utterly senseless script.
China has plans to construct an underwater ‘research lab’ 10,000 feet below the South China Sea
China isn’t only interested in building artificial islands – they’re also planning construction of a sea lab some 10,000 feet underwater.
White House asks AI experts to help with America’s prison overcrowding problem
“We have built a system that is too large, and too unfair, and too costly... and we need to start to change it,” said Lynn Overmann
Last month, for the first time ever, the UK generated more energy from solar than coal
The UK just passed a huge milestone in its renewable energy program – in May, for the first-ever calendar month, they generated more solar than coal power.
These Inception-like cityscapes were designed autonomously by a computer program
Brown fed images of buildings into fractal equations, plugged random numbers into an algorithm, and generated cityscapes reminiscent of The Fifth Element.