Posted Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:57 PM ET | 0
IBM announced this week that it has a computer system that can simulate the thinking power of a cat's brain with 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses. At just 4.5 percent of a human brain, the computer can sense, ... Read more
Posted Wed Nov 18, 2009 09:00 PM ET | 0
By implanting miniature neural and muscle stimulation systems into beetles, scientists for the first time have been able to control the flight of insects. (Electrodes are implanted at the pupal stage and then later connected to remote control... Read more
Posted Mon Nov 16, 2009 08:55 PM ET | 0
Unlike the World Series, which is inhabited largely by American (and one Canadian) baseball teams, the World Wide Web, is actually inhabited by people from lots of different countries. But since the Internet came online, it's domain name suffixes... Read more
Posted Fri Nov 13, 2009 01:08 PM ET | 0
If we could tap into renewable energy, really tap into it (overcome politics and naysayers), we could reduce global power demand by 30 percent and be totally green by 2030. So say civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Jacobson of ... Read more
Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:25 PM ET | 0
I'm recovering from a cold. Some sniffling, coughing. When I first came down with the symptoms this past Monday, I thought for sure I had the flu. I was achy, had the chills. Of course, the first thing I thought ... Read more
Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:46 PM ET | 0
Back in the 70s or 80s, IBM made a video called The Power of 10, which showed the relative size of things from the universe to the cell and the effect of adding a zero. In other words going from ... Read more
Posted Tue Nov 10, 2009 01:20 PM ET | 0
I was just at Baltimore and Boston airports this past weekend and had a couple of hours to spare at each one. Had my laptop, too. But didn't log in because I didn't want to pay the $10 or $20 ... Read more
Posted Mon Nov 09, 2009 09:36 AM ET | 0
Today marks the start of a brand new web site for Discovery News and my site, Discovery News Tech. We've spent the last couple of months with our noses to the grindstones, redesigning the site and building new pages. We ... Read more
Posted Mon Nov 09, 2009 06:06 AM ET | 0
By Jacob Carah An organic vegetable farmer explains why he uses solar energy on his farm in Missouri to power an irrigation system. Read more
Posted Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:37 PM ET | 0
Sometimes engineering doesn’t work out the way we planned. We’ll take a look at battlefield robots, today on Engineering Works! Top brass in the German army are raving about some new equipment that they say will give their soldiers a ... Read more
Posted Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:51 AM ET | 0
Today, Obama announced the largest ever investment in smart grid money. One hundred utility projects around the country will receive between $400,000 to $200 million in funding to improve the grid infrastructure and deploy smart meters, the digital... Read more
Posted Tue Oct 27, 2009 09:50 AM ET | 0
I would go cross-eyed trying to build this thing! Try not to go cross-eyed viewing the video. Read more
Posted Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:22 AM ET | 0
If you pay attention, you can find traffic engineering in the most unexpected places. We’ll find one; listen to the podcast today on Engineering Works! When you say, traffic engineering, most of us think of cars and highways and busy ... Read more
Posted Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:40 AM ET | 0
Phone pranks have finally arrived in the 21s t century and they're called "spoofing." Thanks to a new service called SpoofCard, which allows people to make calls via the Internet, subscribers can change the phone number callees see on their ... Read more
Posted Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:36 AM ET | 0
Some desert beetles get their water from fog, by allowing it to condense on their bodies into dew drops and drinking it. Some humans living in super dry areas are doing the same thing. This morning I heard a spot ... Read more
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