Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Neuroscientists Develop Action Video Game To Aid Recovery From Stroke
U.K. stroke experts are working with Limbs Alive to develop a collection of action video games that will help stroke patients to recover from physical disabilities.
Scientists Use Viruses To Generate Electricity, Promises To Harvest Electricity From Everyday Tasks
Scientists have developed a method for generating power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity. This is the first prototype.
Floating Robots With GPS-enabled Smartphones Will Track Water Flow: UC Berkeley
A group of engineers at University of California have deployed a fleet of 100 floating robots down the Sacramento River in a field test to track water flow on 9 May, 2012.
Microsoft Works On MirageTable, A New Augmented Reality Device
Augmented reality devices have increasingly been gaining traction in the tech world and a number of companies are trying to create their own fully-functional augmented reality devices. Now, it has been revealed that the tech giant, Microsoft, is also working on one. It is being touted as ‘MirageTable’, essentially a tabletop set up where people at remote locations can come together, feeling that it is happening in real 3D.
NCESSE Announces Student Spaceflight Experiment Program For 2012-2013
NCESSE may take us a ride for their fifth wave of microgravity experiments. Students have been invited to submit their ideas. Golden opportunity for students.
Tech Tycoons Join Hands In Asteroid Mining Venture
Film maker James Cameron along with others including Google CEO Larry Page and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi, former presidential candidate’s son Ross Perot Jr., personal spaceflight industry leader Peter Diamandis and others have announced the inauguration of Planetary Resources on April 24, 2012. The company, formerly known as Arkyd Astronautics, will develop and deploy commercial asteroid mining technologies to expand earth’s natural resource base.
LSST Will Build The World’s Largest Telescope
The company has successfully completed first stage and they have allowed to complete the next stage of the project by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Panasonic Will Broadcast Japanese Solar Eclipse On May 20th Using Solar-Power Batteries
Solar power is increasingly making encroaches into the tech world. Given the fact that it’s clean makes it very relevant to environmental ventures. That is precisely why Panasonic has announced to broadcast the May 20th solar eclipse live from Japan using batteries running on solar power.
ITRI Developed MediRobot To Help Medical Caregivers
In a medical, we find lots of people are lying on bed or sitting on a wheel-chair. It’s really tough to lift up a bedridden person from the bed to a wheelchair or the reverse one. If you don’t know the techniques of how to lift up a fully paralyzed patient easily, then there will be no limits for your trouble. While lifting up the patient, the most hard thing is maintaining the balance. It’s really a difficult job. But ITRI MediRobot may make our job easy. The robot is specially designed to lift and transfer patients very easily. This robot may become the future’s perfect nurse!
Researchers Found Swarms Of Crabs Following Logic Gate Models
A group of Japanese researchers at Kobe University to see that swarms of crabs exactly follow the logic gate model like AND, OR and NOT gate.
Artificial Neural Networks Show The Evolution Of Human Intelligence
Cooperation leads to intelligence. In fact, researchers believe that Intelligence correlated with the size of a brain’s neural network. But experimental evolution of vertebrate brains is impossible but there’s a way to measure the evolution of human intelligence through artificial intelligence. In fact, this is the best way to evaluate the plausibility of the hypothesis. Luke McNally, a Ph.D. student of Trinity College in Dublin’s Theoretical Ecology Research Group, conducted the study with colleagues Sam Brown and Andrew Jackson. They created digital organisms that electronically evolved ‘brains’. The researchers found that, the digital organisms typically started to evolve more complex brains when their societies began to develop cooperation which clearly signifies the idea that cooperation helped to drive the evolution of intelligence in at least certain species.
Endeavour’s Last Journey: A Final Glimpse Inside The Space Shuttle Before Going On Display
Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA. Endeavour was delivered by Rockwell International Space Transportation Systems Division in May 1991. It has an amazing view inside with hundreds of lights and blinking buttons. However, this space shuttle Endeavour prepares to make its last journey.
NASA Satellite Captures Devastating Images Of Tornadoes
Last week on Tuesday afternoon, Texas became a victim of few tornadoes. The tornadoes were such dangerous and devastating that had never happened in Texas before. NASA has revealed some stunning 3D images of the 14 confirmed tornadoes that devastated different parts of Texas last week. The images reveal some unbelievable tornadoes. These tornadoes had great powerful thunderstorms more than eight miles high. The thunderstorms destroyed several neighborhoods to the ground.
Self-Repairing Film From Toray
Latest news describing it as "self repairing"! That's not the end of the story, the film can repair scratches within 10 seconds! Should we call this a robo-film?
Bill Gates Funding A New Machine For Filtering Toilet Water Into Drinking Water
3/4 of the earth’s surface is filled with water. But these huge amount of water is almost undrinkable. Imagine a world, where there is no water. The water that are left in the world is only in human and animal body. I hope you understand what I mean. If you have to drink water, then you will have no option except drinking your own emerged water. Anyway, that’s a nightmare. I’m sure, no has thought about it in dreams. But, guess what? Microsoft owner Bill Gates is investing his money for making a new machine for transforming toilet water into drinking water. Really?
