May 16, 2016 Power up! Exosuit helps you lift heavy loads If you're a soldier, firefighter or even a hiker, a new soft robotic suit could one day help you carry hefty loads, a new study finds
May 13, 2016 These drones will deliver blood and supplies across Rwanda A California-based start-up is building drones to drop medical supplies in some of the most remote areas of Rwanda, putting the emerging technology where it can do some real good.
May 13, 2016 National project to harness microbes for health, environment We share our bodies and our surroundings with teeming communities of microbes that are crucial to thehealth of people and the planet, and now the Obama administration is beginning a major project to better understand those invisible ecosystems — even control them.
May 12, 2016 Germany basically had to pay people to use electricity Sunday Germany hit a new milestone in renewable energy on Sunday, generating so much power at one point that customers were essentially being paid to turn on their lights or charge their phones.
May 12, 2016 You can watch the first full-scale Hyperloop test right here The first full-scale test of next-gen Hyperloop transportation technology has just taken place in the desert outside Las Vegas.
May 12, 2016 Hidden high-tech ocean pods will unleash Naval drones What if the U.S. could seed secret pods deep in the oceans that suddenly burst out of the water unleashing devastating surprise attacks on the enemy? While this sounds like the stuff of science fiction the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working to make this amazing project science fact.
May 11, 2016 New tiny memory card stores as much as a laptop The days of the lowly 2GB MicroSD card are officially over. On Tuesday, Samsung announced a 256GB MicroSD card.
May 11, 2016 Get 'bionic hearing' with new smart earbuds If you've ever been on a crowded bus and found yourself stuck between a loud conversation on one side and obnoxiously loud music on the other, the idea of being able to cancel out that background noise probably sounds like bliss.
May 10, 2016 Airbus aims high with Perlan 2 'space glider' It’s been 40 years since an American spy plane, the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird,” flew 85,069 feet above the surface of the earth, setting a record for sustained altitude that stands today. But records are made to be broken, and it looks like the Blackbird’s is about to fall.
May 10, 2016 Cool robot hand learns as it goes Scientists at the University of Washington have built a robotic hand that can learn on its own as it handles a specific task.