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Surfing Titan's waves in a nuclear-powered boat

Friday, October 16, 2009 - 7:28am

Planning a trip to Titan, one of Saturn's moons? Well, you're going to want to go prepared. Why not bring along a nuclear-powered boat for sailing the seas of ethane, methane and propane? That's what NASA-funded geologist Ellen Stofan suggests...

Reseachers use Wi-Fi to see through walls for 'cheap'

Kevin Hall

Friday, October 2, 2009 - 1:06pm

As if we all need another reason to wear a tinfoil hat. "The Wi-FI! It can see you, man." Well, thanks to a pair of researchers at the University of Utah, it can. The trick is in using and excess...

Brain scans reveal what's in your mind's eye

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 7:44am

Scientists are getting closer to being able to create an image of whatever you're picturing your mind. This is either completely amazing or absolutely terrifying. Maybe a little bit of both.To construct their model, the researchers used an fMRI machine,...

DARPA shows off its remote-controlled cyborg beetles

Kevin Hall

Friday, September 25, 2009 - 12:13pm

Yep. You read that right: cyborg beetles. Remote controlled ones, no less. It's the work of a team of puppet masters over at UC Berkley, who have successfully wired up beetles with electrodes that allow them to be controlled remotely....

Analyze your baby's cry to see what he wants

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 8:48am

Babies have a lot of needs and no way to tell you what they are specifically at any given time. Instead they just cry, and parents have to figure it out. This Baby Cry Analyzer looks to change that, analyzing...

This toothpaste is designed to knock you unconscious

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 8:44am

Do you have trouble sleeping? You could drink a glass of warm milk, or open a window. Alternately, you could start using toothpaste designed to knock you out. PearlyDreams (endorsed by Aerosmith's Brad Whitford, so you know it's legit) is...

Steel velcro can support up to 35 tons

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 5:54am

Regular velcro helps the slow and undexterous keep their shoes securely on. But steel velcro? Well, that stuff can support up to 35 tons of pressure. Developed by German engineers, this new version of Velcro is dubbed Metaklett, and it...

Fart detector solves a problem I've never encountered

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 7:19am

You know, I'm sure it's an impressive piece of scientific equipment, but I'm not sold on the usefulness of a fart detector. I'm sure the two Cornell computer engineering students who made it are quite bright, and combining a hydrogen...

Robot Operating System gives 'bots a common, DOS-like brain

Kevin Hall

Monday, August 10, 2009 - 12:01pm

We told you a bit about the Robot Operating System (or ROS) before when it was helping a 'bot from Willow Garage find power outlets and — after the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Pasedena, California last month...

Large Hadron Collider restarts in November at half power

Kevin Hall

Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 2:44pm

At long last, it seems the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland will get to doing what it was designed to do: collidin' particles. After a catastrophic failure late last year ground everything to a halt,...

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Surfing Titan's waves in a nuclear-powered boat

Reseachers use Wi-Fi to see through walls for 'cheap'

Brain scans reveal what's in your mind's eye

DARPA shows off its remote-controlled cyborg beetles

Analyze your baby's cry to see what he wants

This toothpaste is designed to knock you unconscious

Steel velcro can support up to 35 tons

Fart detector solves a problem I've never encountered

Robot Operating System gives 'bots a common, DOS-like brain

Large Hadron Collider restarts in November at half power

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