Pain is a hard problem. Sure, we can throw a little morphine at pain in the short term, but researchers continue to struggle with solutions for chronic pain. New research from Stanford’s futuristic Bio-X lab looks like a light at the end of the tunnel—literally!
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The endless impossibly early mornings heading to the rink for practice aren’t the only things taking a toll on figure skaters. Researchers at Brigham Young University recently designed and built an unobtrusive skate sensor that can measure the impact when a figure skater lands a jump—and it turns out they’re absorbing forces up to eight times their own body weight.
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NASA has captured the first images of a star’s supernova remains, having snapped the burst of radioactive material from the death hundreds of years ago of a star at least … Continue reading
Everybody wishes they had super powers. The big problem with that shared ambition, however, is that super powers do not exist. Not unless you count super human vision. That does exist, and a new app promises to help you attain it.
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Remember that great episode of The Magic Schoolbus, where the class took a field trip through the human body? This little chip could be as close as we ever need to get to that dream, by providing a real-time 3D view from within the heart and blood vessels.
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An asteroid roughly the size of three football pitches that was expected to hurtle past Earth last night has been lost by astronomers, after attempts to track 2000 EM26 during … Continue reading
A dedicated augmented reality chip that works just like human vision could open the door to wearables like Google’s Glass running all day on a single charge, by only analyzing … Continue reading
Stretchable circuits are going to enable our wearable tech future, but they’re super finicky to create. It was just under two years ago that scientists nailed stretchable electronic circuitry
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AT&T and IBM are teaming up for the Internet of Things (IoT) on a huge scale, planning to outfit smart cities with cameras, roads, utility meters, and more that can … Continue reading
A group of construction workers working in Seattle, Washington made an interesting discovery recently. The workers were digging at the construction site when they uncovered a mammoth tusk. The mammoth … Continue reading
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