Posted Fri Feb 5, 2010 11:44 AM ET | 0
Usually water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and temperatures below that. But now scientists - reporting today in the journal Science -- have found a way to keep water in a liquid form at -40 degrees F. What's more, the ... Read more
Posted Fri Feb 5, 2010 10:38 AM ET | 0
Tracy Staedter chats with Tokao Someya, associate professor at the University of Tokyo, about how he uses carbon nanotubes to make flexible circuits. Read more
Posted Wed Feb 3, 2010 08:26 PM ET | 0
Would you coat a living plant in glass to keep it free of fungus? What about coating a counter in glass to keep it sterile? It sounds highly unusual, but the German company, Nanopool, is about to market liquid glass ... Read more
Posted Wed Feb 3, 2010 04:11 PM ET | 0
I received an email from Dennis Hong, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. He said: "Hi Tracy. Just wanted to let you know about an exciting YouTube clip that robotics people may enjoy -- all the cool RoMeLa ... Read more
Posted Mon Feb 1, 2010 08:40 PM ET | 0
Conventional hearing aids use air conduction to turn up the volume on the sound traveling to the ear. But a new device from Sonitus Medical, turns up the volume using bone conduction. The SoundBite has two parts: a removable part ... Read more
Posted Mon Feb 1, 2010 11:25 AM ET | 0
A life-sized robot is now on the market for $7,000 from the firm TrueCompanion. Inventor Douglas Hines introduced Roxxxy last month at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. Hines, who used to work as an artificial intelligence engineer ... Read more
Posted Thu Jan 28, 2010 04:50 PM ET | 0
Two weeks ago, I saw this piece from Wired about Google and several dozen other big companies getting hacked in what is now known as "Operation Aurora." The Wired story reports, "The attackers used nearly a dozen pieces of malware ... Read more
Posted Thu Jan 28, 2010 09:13 AM ET | 0
Want to keep your eye on the cutting edge of sci-tech reporting? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" menu in your personal Yahoo! ... Read more
Posted Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:03 AM ET | 0
There's a great piece on Gizmag today about passwords. They reference a data security study completed by Imperva, which analyzed data that was hacked last December on the Web site Rockyou.com. Of the 32 million passwords involved, the ten most ... Read more
Posted Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:49 AM ET | 0
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today a new law that prohibits commercial truckers and bus drivers from sending text messages while they are driving. The rule is part of a bigger effort to address the problem of driving while ... Read more
Posted Mon Jan 25, 2010 01:46 PM ET | 0
Many of us stay in touch with friends and keep our pulse on "what's going on," by using Facebook and Twitter. Now some reporters are undergoing a special experiment to see just how much information they can glean by only ... Read more
Posted Mon Jan 25, 2010 01:30 PM ET | 0
Wow. What a great story. A man who became trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Haiti survived with the help of a first aid application on his iPhone. On January 12, Dan Woolley, who oversees interactive projects ... Read more
Posted Fri Jan 22, 2010 01:47 PM ET | 0
You've heard of online social networking. What about social netwoofing? The toy company Mattel announced today that it is developing a product called "Puppy Tweets," which will allow your dog to send Twitters, those abbreviated Internet posts that... Read more
Posted Wed Jan 20, 2010 02:39 PM ET | 0
And I thought I was late to Twitter. But Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft, just signed on yesterday. His @BillGates feed already has more than 225,000 followers. Man! What's his secret? You should know that Bill's only following 40 ... Read more
Posted Wed Jan 20, 2010 01:31 PM ET | 0
Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and in honor of that, I'm going to post a Wide Angle devoted to Love and Technology. You'll be able to find it online the week of February 8. In the meantime, I'm ... Read more
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