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British company claims biggest engine advance since the jet: the SABRE engine
A small British company with a dream of building a re-usable space plane has won an important endorsement from the European Space Agency (ESA) after completing key tests on its novel engine...
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PAL-V ONE – The Flying Car
The PAL-V ONE, which looks like a cross between a three-wheeler and a helicopter, uses a rear-mounted propeller to take off and a free-spinning rotor on top for lift. Made by PAL-V in the Netherlands,...
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Researchers look down a different path for new antidepressants
As a teenager growing up in New Mexico, Zach Weinberg had the same thing for breakfast every day of high school. Next to his tortilla and cream cheese, which he insists is delicious, was a small,...
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DARPA eyes pop-up deep sea sensors with project Upward Falling Payloads
In a proposal almost as fanciful as the fictional 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off a research project last Friday to develop sensor...
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Lab rats given a 6th sense through a brain-machine interface
Duke University researchers have effectively given laboratory rats a “sixth sense” using an implant in their brains. An experimental device allowed the rats to “touch” infrared light – which is...
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The Super Supercapacitor: Graphene super capacitor could make batteries obsolete
A Feb. 21, 2013 article in Rewire reports on a breakthrough in power storage that hold the promise to change the world. Researchers at UCLA have found a way to create what is in effect a super...
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Brain implants: Restoring memory with a microchip
William Gibson’s popular science fiction tale “Johnny Mnemonic” foresaw sensitive information being carried by microchips in the brain by 2021. A team of American neuroscientists could be making this...
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18 year old Eesha Khare awarded 2nd place in Intel International Science and...
Top winner Ionut Budisteanu, 19, of Romania (center) with second-place winners Eesha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, Calif., (left) and Henry Lin, 17, of Shreveport, La., celebrate their awards at the Intel...
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Electricity-Generating, Transparent Solar Cell Windows
A team from UCLA has developed a new transparent solar cell that has the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside. In short, they’ve created a solar power-generating...
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R.I.P. Frederick Sanger, Two-Time Nobel-Winning Scientist, died yesterday at...
By DENISE GELLENE Frederick Sanger, a British biochemist whose discoveries about the chemistry of life led to the decoding of the human genome and to the development of new drugs like human growth...
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