https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. It's the sort of thing you would expect Dr Who to do – join up someone's damaged nerves by using a sonic screwdriver. But the scientists at the University of Glasgow are no time-travellers and their work is based in a lab – not a Tardis. https://phys.org/news/2014-05-sonic-screwdriver-cells-tartan.html Biochemistry Wed, 14 May 2014 08:56:52 EDT news319276603 (Phys.org) —The Raspberry Pi is a computing milestone as a very low-priced computing device running Linux; now a Japanese inventor wants to rev up another kind of breakthrough, with an affordable robot kit that can work with the Raspberry Pi and its camera module. Say hello to RAPIRO, as its makers say, "the robot you always wanted as a kid," and, as its makers ask, pledge some money for it too, because it is a Kickstarter campaign. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-rapiro-joy-robots-raspberry-pi.html Robotics Tue, 25 Jun 2013 05:30:02 EDT news291345653 When the scriptwriters for Doctor Who imagined a futuristic device, they came up with the Sonic Screwdriver. Now a team of physicists at the University of Dundee have taken equipment designed for MRI-guided focused ultrasound surgery and demonstrated a real Sonic Screwdriver - lifting and spinning a free-floating 10 cm diameter rubber disk with an ultrasound beam. https://phys.org/news/2012-04-sonic-screwdriver-tightens-fundamental-physics.html General Physics Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:58:50 EDT news254134683