US Navy to test robot firefighters for taming shipboard blazes

The military and government in the US is putting a lot of research and money into developing robots for various uses. DARPA is trying to build robots that can be … Continue reading

We Didn't Know How Tire Sounds Are Made Until Now

We Didn't Know How Tire Sounds Are Made Until Now

With supercomputers capable of beating our best chess and Jeopardy players, you’d think that being able to simulate the sounds a tire makes while rolling on a road was easy—but it’s not. In fact, Yokohama had to team up with the Japanese equivalent of NASA to finally recreate how air and sound behave around the company’s tires.

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Volvo car-to-car chatter warns of icy roads

Volvo has kicked off a car-to-car communications system where nearby vehicles can warn each other of icy road surfaces. One of the first such projects in operation out in the … Continue reading

Sony and NASA bring Mars to Project Morpheus

Sony is working with NASA to turn Project Morpheus, its new virtual reality headset for PlayStation 4, into both a science and an entertainment tool. The collaboration, revealed at GDC … Continue reading

Scientists Discover the Key to Making Paint That Never Fades

Scientists Discover the Key to Making Paint That Never Fades

It seems like scientists are all about immortality these days. It’s not just plants and people that are getting the treatment, though. A team of Harvard engineers are developing a way of producing color that could produce paint that never fades, and displays that never go dark.

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Toshiba's New Breathalyzer Diagnoses Diseases, Not Drunks

Toshiba's New Breathalyzer Diagnoses Diseases, Not Drunks

Toshiba just took the wraps off a medical breathalyzer that the company says can diagnose diseases by analyzing the air a patient exhales. "Bad breath" just took on a whole new meaning.

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Hubble celebrates 24th birthday with new picture

It’s hard to imagine that the Hubble Space Telescope has been in orbit for 24 years. Hubble still offers some of the coolest images of the cosmos that we will … Continue reading

Pay TV subscribers decreased last year as broadband rose

New research by the Leichtman Research Group reveals the number of pay-TV subscribers decreased last year across all the major cable companies, among them being Comcast and Time Warner Cable, … Continue reading

Mercury shrinking NASA confirms: 4.3 miles in 4bn years

Mercury is shrinking, its radius reduced as much as 4.3 miles over the past four billion years, scientists have confirmed, with the planet contracting as its iron core cools. The … Continue reading

Big Bang breakthrough as Cosmic contractions spotted

A “spectacular” discovery that could explain the Big Bang that created the universe and potentially lead to Nobel prizes for the researchers behind it is prompting excitement in the scientific … Continue reading