Science and Nature

Goodbye, Ink: Chinese Chemists Invent Water-Jet PrinterPrinter ink makers and ink refilling stations may soon have an unexpected competition from a printer which uses H20 and not ink....

If there was ever a justification needed for space technology, it’s that it keeps people like me from constantly being lost. These days, my smart phone is much...

62.5-MW Victorian Wave would be world’s largest wave-energy development, Robert BrooksThe OPT PowerBuoy system — shown here during installation for a Spanish project — uses a proprietary buoy device...

The Sheerwind wind turbine promises to produce 6 times the electrical power than traditional wind turbines.This funny looking wind tower acts like a funnel, directing the wind from any angle,...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- For the first time anywhere, a team of chemists and engineers at Penn State has placed tiny synthetic motors inside live human cells, propelled...

Android users worried about the security of their mobile Internet browsing in light of all the advanced spying practices recently revealed by Edward Snowden’s leaked documents, should know the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is...

Copyright IndustryI've already written one piece about Cory Doctorow's incredible column at the Guardian concerningdigital rights management and anti-circumvention, in which I focused on how the combination of...

10 Futuristic Materials1. AerogelAerogel protecting crayons from a blowtorch. This tiny block of transparent aerogel is supporting a brick weighing 2.5 kg. The aerogel’s density is 3 mg/cm3.Aerogel holds...

Researchers of Freie Universität Berlin, of the Bernstein Fokus Neuronal Basis of Learning, and of the Bernstein Center Berlin and have developed a robot that perceives environmental stimuli...