Tech

Apr 29, 2013 01:01 PM EDT

Hospital-bred Superbugs Face New Technology Determined To Render Them Extinct

With 1 in 20 patients picking up infections at hospitals, the fight against “superbugs” is an ever-evolving one for doctors.

mobile device prototype from University of Bristol

Apr 29, 2013 08:15 AM EDT

Researchers to Unveil Shape-Changing Mobile Devices

A team of researchers from the University of Bristol is about to unveil a prototype of mobile devices that can change shape on demand. The device is based on the team's concept of Morphees - shape-changing devices to accommodate an application.

Apr 26, 2013 04:22 PM EDT

Global Smartphones Shipments Surpass Feature Phones for the First Time Ever

It was only a matter of time before it happened and today it did - smartphones outshipped basic feature phones for the first time ever in the first three months of 2013, according to a report released Friday.

Apr 25, 2013 10:46 AM EDT

Fake Anti-Malarial Drugs May Have Met Their Match In FDA's Latest Handheld Device

More than a third of anti-malarial drugs available in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia are counterfeit or substandard, according to the FDA. For this reason, the agency announced Wednesday its plans to implement a tool called the Counterfeit Detector Device, or CD-3, to better enable agencies and organizations to differentiate between real and fake medication.

Apr 24, 2013 04:12 PM EDT

LED Light Innovation Could Reduce Light Pollution Throughout The Globe

An innovation in LED lighting could successfully light the world’s sidewalks and roads while all but eliminating light pollution.

Apr 24, 2013 03:22 PM EDT

Nanofiber Marks The Beginning Of Manufacturing Revolution, Study Says

Cars, bridges and airplanes are just a few items that could get a whole lot lighter without sacrificing any of their strength, thanks to a new nanowire developed by engineers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Apr 24, 2013 12:40 PM EDT

Robot Aids In Discovery Of Three New Burial Chambers Located Under Temple Of Quetzacoatl

Robotics have long played a helpful role in medicine and manufacturing; however, a new discovery made by the robot Tlaloc II-TC shows just how crucial the new technology can be in the field of archaeology.

Apr 23, 2013 12:42 PM EDT

Is Cheap Space Flight Around The Corner? SpaceX's Grasshopper Reaches Unprecedented Heights [VIDEO]

SpaceX’s Grasshopper reached an unprecedented 820 feet this week - an accomplishment that has won some over to the idea of reusable rockets and rocket parts.

Apr 23, 2013 11:29 AM EDT

In Love With Our Robots? Two New Studies Reveal Humans Feel Empathy For The Machines

Humans hate to watch robots suffer, say researchers from the University of Duisburg Essen in Germany.

Apr 22, 2013 04:33 PM EDT

U.S. Team Take Home Robotics World Championship [VIDEO]

After hundreds of long hours spent laboring over screwdrivers and sheets of metal while their peers pursued sports, jobs or each other, a team of five from Worcester Technical High School (WTHS) beat 420 teams from 24 countries to win the 2013 VEX Robotics World Championships.

Apr 22, 2013 02:40 PM EDT

K-8 School Working To Become First To Launch Satellite Into Space

NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative has opened the doors for high school and university students across the nation to get involved in developing cube-shaped “nanosatellites” since it started in 2010. This year, however, marks the first time a K-8 school will be taking part of the initiative and, according to St. Thomas More’s teachers, it’s not just the older kids getting involved.

Apr 18, 2013 03:45 PM EDT

Combating Incest: There's An App For That

"App of Icelanders" reveals how closely two people are related just by bumping phones.

Apr 18, 2013 01:28 PM EDT

New Telescope Discovers In Hours What Takes Older Telescopes Decades

Over the course of a few hours, the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope in Chile was able to do what similar telescopes have spent more of a decade trying to accomplish: pinpoint and observe over 100 of the early Universe's most fertile star-forming galaxies.

Apr 18, 2013 12:45 PM EDT

Quantum Computer Almost Here? Scientists Discover A New, Reliable Way To Measure "Qubits" [VIDEO]

Quantum computers may be just around the corner thanks to the recent discovery by physicists at the University of New South Wales in Australia that a reliable reading can be drawn based on the rotations of the nucleus of a single atom positioned in a silicon chip.