Archive August 2009
In a development sure to drive Stephen Colbert apoplectic, the Japanese national laboratory RIKEN has announced the development of robotic nurses that look like bears. Called Robot for Interactive Body Assistance (RIBA), the robot was designed to help a country facing the dual problem of a shortage of nurses and ...
The technique could cure genetic problems in human babies
In a procedure that's sure to lead to plenty of interesting family dinners, scientists have created monkeys that have one father, but two genetic mothers. The scientists created these hybrids by transplanting mitochondrial DNA into the monkey embryo, opening up the possibility ...
Quick, get out your iPhone. Unlock it and slide over to that game you've been playing when your boss isn't looking. Now mute it, put the phone to sleep, close your eyes, and try to do that again. Can you do it? Didn't think so.
There's not a simple way to ...
Scientists develop a new type of ink that goes on as a single color but can be turned into a full-color image in seconds
Traditional color printing -- whether done with an inkjet, laser or silkscreen -- requires a page to be laid out with several different inks in various colors ...
Scientists build a big model to watch how things happen in tiny machines
Whoever thinks science isn't fun must have never heard of Legos. The colorful construction toy has been used before as a cellular teaching tool. But these days, even researchers working in the nanoscale world get to play around ...
While on assignment for the German news magazine Stern, Aurora photographer Michael Eudenbach flew over Martha’s Vineyard in a powered paraglider to photograph the island as part of a commentary on President Obama’s choice of summer vacation spots. The aerial photograph was taken on an early morning flight over Oak ...
In a stem-cell breakthrough, scientists have illuminated a new way forward in treating diseases of the eye: turning skin cells into eye cells
The retina is a lush layered field of tissue lining the back of the eye, a complex mix of specialized cells that serve as a transfer station where ...
I am so sad about this. What a giant. He will be greatly missed especially now in the time of our best chance ever for health care. There are great posts all over the blogs today about Teddy, but I just don't have the words to express how sad I ...
When I was a kid, the only animal I wanted for a pet was a dinosaur. Seeing as non-avian dinosaurs had been extinct for around 65 million years, I settled for an iguana. However, new research at McGill University in Canada may finally bring me that pet dino I've been ...
With the White House Council of Advisors on Science and Technology estimating that this winter's swine flu outbreak could lead to 30,000 to 90,000 deaths in the US (on top of the usual 30,000 deaths that occur from seasonal flu), the government has ramped up its effort to vaccinate as ...
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