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The nano-cinematographers (that’s right, we just made up that word) used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of molecules and make a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times.
Lancaster University researchers have created software that, when used in combination with a screen, can detect the gazes of up to 14 passersby and change advertisements accordingly.
Technological innovations can further disrupt retailing by taking aim at the product itself, rather than the point of sale.
In the second installment of our “8 Trends That Will Shape Humanity” series, we look at the rise of the “city state” and how the coming consolidation of humanity into cities will change life for residents of these massive urban hubs.
Unlike other types of paper currently on the market, this version’s ultra-thin chips are embedded using a laser, making it much more versatile for banknotes and other important printed media.
Reaching your unique potential involves process, or specific steps that are required to take action.
Or, more specifically, an insect’s compound eye: Researchers built an array of individual lenses and detectors and then bent it into a hemispherical shape. The result is a scalable system that could surpass anything found in nature.
Science works because scientists form communities and traditions based not on a common set of methods, but a common set of ethical principles.
Once you know what the laws of nature are, another kind of question unfolds itself which is why are those the laws and not other laws.
Located 1,200 light-years from here, in the northern constellation Lyra, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered two planets whose size and orbits make them the exoplanets most similar to Earth yet.
The day marked the first time a commercial plane broke the sound barrier since the supersonic Concorde was retired in 2003. Soon, Virgin’s craft will be travelling faster than the Concorde.
The explosion of a meteor above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in mid-February, while sparing lives and damage to the city, served as a stark reminder of Earth’s vulnerability to asteroids.
The idea of Big Brother government snooping on us, listening in on our phone calls, intercepting our e mails, watching us with all kinds of surveillance devices, offends most […]
Today we explore books on biology, recommended by our experts, editors and readers.
No myth about art and artists abides as pervasively as that of Vincent Van Gogh, the mad genius. To mark the grand reopening of the renovated Van Gogh Museum in […]
If we are to ever reach beyond our own planet, possibly colonizing asteroids and Jupiter’s moon Europa, we need a better propellant system. Rocket scientists recommend nuclear power.
Sir Richard Branson & Forger, aka Mark Stucky congratulate each other after the success of Virgin Galactic’s first rocket-powered flight that broke the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert.
The online commerce giant eBay is considering accepting the virtual currency Bitcoin. The retailer would use its Paypal payments network to exchange the currency online for goods and services.
“Everyone can write but there are few good writers. Just because everyone can [write] doesn’t mean that there’s talent,” Paul Verhoeven told an audience at the Tribeca Film Festival after […]
May 1, or May Day, or the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, the patron saint of workers, is a day that workers were traditionally given off following the planting of the fields that later became a bank holiday and is today an annual occasion for displays of social unrest throughout much of Europe.
One of the most memorable moments in the HBO film And the Band Played On, honored at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary, is a […]
Using 2.5 billion mobile call records from five million cell-phone users in Ivory Coast, IBM has created a system of bus routes estimated to cut workers’ commute time by ten percent.
How your child can join the universally human undertaking that is science, and from that moment embrace technology as something that is to be celebrated rather than feared.
If you want to help children explore, there is perhaps one thing you can do. Buy a pair of binoculars and leave them out.
What’s the most perfect, ideal, pure act of sexual consent that you can imagine? Maybe it would be you and your most favorite lover, ever, in a hotel room for […]
Launched via a 35-day crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, Matterform blasted through its initial fundraising goal of $81K in 1 week and has raised over $460K. With 4 days left to go, the company announced that it has outgrown its production facility and decided to add color scanning to what is the world’s 1st affordable home 3D scanner product (currently $599).
After her uterus nearly erupted, Vyckie Garrison was rushed to the hospital to give birth to her seventh child. The emergency caesarean section nearly killed her. Her doctor warned the […]
The problem, some would argue, is that this line in the sand has not be drawn with a sword but with mere words, words that are being contradicted by inaction.
National governments are increasingly less likely to collect personal data on identification cards because they will soon simply purchase your personal information from companies.