08/04/2014

High-tech items giving deaf-blind online access

Tanisha Verdejo loves to surf the Internet for online shopping deals. She chats on Facebook, learns about new recipes and enjoys sending emails to friends and family.

Startup creates underwater robotics with a human touch

It should be just as easy to use a robotic arm as it is to use your own hand. That's the thinking behind University of Washington startup BluHaptics, which is taking telerobotics—controlling robots from a distance—to ...

Dairy scientist targets heat-resistant microbes

Corralling desperados with names like bacillus and paenibacillus will require ingenuity and an arsenal of weapons. These outlaws aren't rustling cattle—they're making milk sour and cheese soft and crumbly.

Male identity evolves on TV dramas

Male characters on television used to hold onto traditional ideas of masculinity tighter than viewers maintained their grip on remote controls.

As fast as their tiny 'bot' legs will carry them (w/ video)

Imagine robots no bigger than your finger tip scrambling through the rubble of a disaster site to search for victims or to assess damage. That's the vision of engineer Sarah Bergbreiter and her research team at the University ...

Black carbon is ancient by the time it reaches seafloor

(Phys.org) —A fraction of the carbon that finds its way into Earth's oceans—the black soot and charcoal residue of fires—stays there for thousands for years, and a new first-of-its-kind analysis shows how some black ...

Video: Harvesting water from fog

PH2OG Water is a startup project coming out of Princeton University's eLab that harvests water from clouds in the mountains of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and distills it into pure, premium drinking water. The idea ...

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