Smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite. This material has distinct advantages over traditional silicon or graphene for use in electronics applications.
How do you use a scientific method to measure the intelligence of a human being, an animal, a machine or an extra-terrestrial? So far this has not been possible, but researchers have taken a first step towards this by presenting the foundations to be used as a basis for this method, and have also put forward a new intelligence test.
Disabled and elderly people could find it easier to navigate around town and city centers with a new hand-held computer being developed by a geographical information systems.
Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) proposed Dream Chaser vehicle. It looks like a spacecraft ought to look. This is one of the key US commercial human spaceflight projects now in development.
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a single “unified” device that can perform both volatile and nonvolatile memory
In a first-of-its-kind experiment, University of Vermont roboticist Josh Bongard created both simulated and actual robots that, like tadpoles becoming
Researchers have developed a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant feature of a zoom capability, unlike the human eye. The
More and more robots are being designed to handle the jobs now done by white-collar office workers. For instance, the HRP-4 humanoid robot ($350,000),
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Lowell laugh in the face of Intel
They walk, they dance, they...perform surgeries? Take a look at some of the best robotic creations of 2010!
Watson the super computer has defeated the two greatest human champs in the history of "Jeopardy."
Vats of blue-green algae could one day replace oil wells in producing raw materials for the chemical industry, a UC Davis chemist predicts. Shota Atsumi, a
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that it is possible to reduce the minimum voltage necessary to store charge in a capacitor,
