June 9, 2017 Zapping your brain with electricity can aid creativity -- but there's a catch Need to make someone more creative? How about zapping their brain with an electric current? That's the conclusion of an experiment carried out by researchers in the U.K. But it's not quite as good as it sounds.
June 8, 2017 Researchers debut shape-shifting, edible origami If you are an experimental foodie, this might be just the thing you’re looking for. Researchers with the MIT Tangible Media Group have announced the successful creation of edible, shape-shifting origami “pasta,” a food that literally changes shape when properly “manipulated.”
June 8, 2017 United Nations summit seeks to save humanity with artificial intelligence The AI for Good Global Summit brings together scientists, ethicists, industry leaders, and policymakers for three days in Geneva to discuss how this emerging technology can be used to benefit humanity.
June 7, 2017 Artificial intelligence can now predict if someone will die in the next 5 years Scientists from the University of Adelaide have created an AI that's able to look at the CT scans of patients, and predict whether they'll live through the next five years. And that's a good thing.
June 7, 2017 NASA's new Mars rover looks like a Batman vehicle NASA showed off a prototype of a new Mars rover, reminiscent of a vehicle from Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy.
June 2, 2017 Thanks to augmented reality, this BMW art car is more than meets the eye The latest BMW art car was designed by Chinese artist Cao Fei. She relied on augmented reality to create a new spin on BMW's art-car series, which began in the 1975 with a car painted by Alexander Calder.
June 2, 2017 Startup buys young blood, injects it into older people It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it's real: Ambrosia, a startup from entrepreneur Jesse Karmazin, pays for the blood of people under the age of 25, then sells anyone over age 35 a transfusion of the younger blood for $8,000—the only US company to offer such a service, Vanity Fair reports.
June 1, 2017 Stratolaunch: world's largest plane finally emerges Stratolaunch has been under construction for four years, but the world's largest plane is finally ready to show itself.
May 31, 2017 Amazon awarded patent for parachute shipping label It's a shipping label with a built-in parachute enabling packages to be dropped from a drone in flight.
May 26, 2017 Scientists prove that our brains have a little bit of Jedi in them Have you ever wished you had Jedi powers?