Technology

Researchers have built a small vehicle whose flying motion resembles the movements of those boneless, pulsating, water-dwelling creatures we call jellyfish.  Their presentation at the American…

Spontaneous bursts of light, which last trillionths of a second, change color as they pulse from within a solid-state block and illuminate the unusual way interacting quantum particles behave when…

A $500  three-dimensional  "nano-camera" that can operate at the speed of light has been developed by researchers in the MIT Media Lab and was presented at Siggraph Asia in Hong Kong. It…

People are already attached to their smartphones but if you have ever been in an airport waiting area and watched them scramble for outlets, you know recharging is not in the 21st century yet. There…

About 11 million smokers in the United States own a smartphone - they have apps to do almost anything, including quitting smoking. Like weight loss or any other behavioral change, their ability to…

Kids love penguins. They sing and dance in cartoons, they waddle like Charlie Chaplin on land - but underwater, they are all business, accelerating from 0 to 15 miles per hour in less than a…

An automated system,  the Child Health Improvement through Computer Automation system (CHICA), helps pediatricians focus on the specific health needs of each patient in the short time allotted…

EcoBot, a robot that can function completely on its own by collecting waste and converting it into electricity, has an "engine room" that is modeled on the human heart.The artificial device…

A bio patch  bone-regeneration kit uses a collagen platform seeded with particles containing the genes needed for producing bone to regenerate missing or damaged bone - basically, it puts DNA…

A new computer model says it can predict, by census block group, where burglaries are likely to occur. Using the model developed by a University of California Riverside sociologist Prof. Robert Nash…