In biology, we often think of natural selection and survival of the fittest. What about survival of the luckiest? Like pioneers in search of a better life, bacteria on a surface wander around and often organize into highly ...
May 08, 2013
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(Phys.org) —The Mighty Eagle, NASA's robotic prototype lander managed out of NASA"s Marshall Space Flight Center, recently completed a test series to monitor its systems functionality after coming out of ...
May 31, 2013
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Bubbles in a champagne glass may add a festive fizz to the drink, but microscopic bubbles that form in a material called metallic glass can signal serious trouble. In this normally high-strength material, bubbles may indicate ...
Jun 05, 2013
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Hackers are out to trick Apple computer users into infecting Macintosh machines with malicious code pretending to be legitimate security software.
May 26, 2011
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Nest Labs, a startup founded by former Apple engineers, hopes to do for home thermostats what their former employer did for smartphones -- make them hip and intuitive.
Oct 25, 2011
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Computer simulations have become an indispensable part of the modern design process. Standard finite element technology, however, requires designers to carry out a time-consuming and often error-prone mesh ...
Jul 13, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Intense robot battles have, for the most part, been confined to the silver screen. Occasionally a robot comes by to trounce us at chess, but robot on robot competition has been fairly limited. ...
Jun 08, 2011
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New technology at the University of British Columbia makes it possible for a person to speak or sing just by using their hands to control a speech synthesizer.
Feb 19, 2012
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The makers of Blekko believe they've built a great alternative to Google, but they're also realistic. They know their two-year-old Internet search engine won't ever supplant Google as the most popular place ...
Jan 04, 2013
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Google dedicated a doodle Tuesday to the Swedish-American inventor of the modern zipper, Gideon Sundback, on what would have been his 132nd birthday.
Apr 24, 2012
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The British software engineer who sent the world's first text message 20 years ago said on Monday that he is amazed at how the technology has developed.
Dec 03, 2012
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Understanding the arrangement of atoms in a solid—one of solids' fundamental properties—is vital to advanced materials research. For decades, two camps of researchers have been working to develop methods to understand ...
Dec 11, 2012
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