General Motors has built a force-multiplying battery powered robotic glove. It will be used in factories and healthcare and other industries. Working with GM, Bioservo will combine technology from its SEM GloveTM (Soft Extra Muscle) technology with the RoboGlove, a force-multiplying battery-powered wearable developed by GM and NASA during a nine-year collaboration that included the …
Jeffrey Guhin argues against a nation that uses rationality and evidence as the basis for governance. Jeffrey Guhin is an assistant professor of sociology at University of California, Los Angeles. Jeffrey uses the examples where bad policies were promoted with claims that they were following science. Eugenics was claimed to be science social Darwinism justifications …
The University of Washington has been granted $750,000 over three years to alter locusts to remotely sense bombs and other explosive devices. These locusts could detect chemical changes in areas with possible dangers, like land mines, with their antenna, and alert users sitting far away in safety. Although dogs’ noses are more sensitive to chemical …
Switzerland’s Federal Polytechnic Institute have an aircraft design which is inspired by shipping containers and Thunderbird 2 but with multiple fuselages. The Clip-Air team though—they’re preparing to build a smaller 10-meter drone prototype soon. Clip-Air capsules would also be able to be transported by rail. They would be for lighter containers for passengers that would …
In 2015, DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program developed a self-steering bullet to increase hit rates for difficult, long-distance shots, completed its most successful round of live-fire tests to date. An experienced shooter using the technology demonstration system repeatedly hit moving and evading targets. Additionally, a novice shooter using the system for the first …
SENS Research Foundation is testing a diverse drug library to find treatments for ‘ALT’ cancers, those which rely on Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres. This is an important piece of a comprehensive anti-aging strategy. SENS is crowdfunding to fund the research. Donate via this link to provide part of the $60,000 that is being raised. Of …
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a wildly popular term these days, often used to describe a world in which virtually every electronic device connects to the Internet and each other. It comprises a staggering list of applications—everything from smart consumer appliances and vehicles to wearables—and that list will only grow as mobility continues …
On Tuesday, China began a week of naval exercises in waters around the Paracel Islands, in the northern part of the sea. They came a week before a United Nations-backed tribunal in The Hague rules on a case brought by the Philippines challenging China’s position. Beijing has boycotted the hearings and is engaged in a …
A team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Core Faculty member Peng Yin, Ph.D., has, for the first time, been able to tell apart features distanced only 5 nanometers from each other in a densely packed, single molecular structure and to achieve the so far highest resolution in optical microscopy. Reported …
Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims that about half of the approximately one million people globally who died in auto accidents last year would have been saved if the Tesla Autopilot was universally available. There was one fatal crash on May 7, 2016 with a person using the Tesla autopilot. Up until mid-May, 2016 Tesla reported …
Armed forces of the future could be using rapid response aircraft equipped with engines capable of propelling those aircraft to hypersonic speeds – similar to the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) which is currently being developed by Reaction Engines Limited, a small British company in which BAE Systems has invested £20.6 million. Engineers and scientists …