We’re supposed to be building robots and AI for the good of humankind, but scientists at MIT have pretty much been doing the opposite - they’ve built a new kind of AI with the sole...
Friday, December 23, 2016
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Laser Mounted Combat Vehicles Are Set to Roll-Out in 2017

The development of lasers for combat purposes goes as far back as at least the Regan era,
as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) from that time period had...
Saturday, October 29, 2016
New Research Shows How Stars Turn to Gold

A study of the nearby dwarf galaxy Reticulum II hints at an exotic
origin of the heaviest elements on Earth—through the merger of neutron
stars.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Harvard Engineers Create the First Fully 3D-Printed Heart-on-a-Chip
Engineers from Harvard University have made the first entirely
3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Using a fully
automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed
heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated and customized, allowing
researchers to easily...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Nose cells fix knee cartilage in human trial

Using nasal cartilage cells to repair joints is nothing to sniff at. As researchers reported August 27 in Science Translational Medicine: Patches of cartilage grown from...
Monday, October 24, 2016
Unusual quantum liquid on crystal surface could inspire future electronics

Strange electron orbits form on the surface of a crystal
For the first time, an experiment has directly imaged electron orbits in
a high-magnetic field, illuminating an unusual...
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Toyota’s New Hydrogen Buses Are Heading to Tokyo

Toyota’s new Murai hydrogen-powered buses will take to the streets of
Toyko starting in 2017, the company has announced. The Tokyo
Metropolitan Government has already purchased...