“Smart Bullet” deploys fins and guides itself to a laser-designated target
Posted by admin in Hi-tech, Science on 31. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
Precision guided weapons are usually the purview of larger weapons platforms, like naval vessels, combat aircraft, or assault vehicles. But a couple of Sandia National Labs engineers are bringing the guided munition down from the mountaintop and putting it into the hands of the average infantryman. The engineers have developed and patented a new breed [...]
The world’s first 3-D, free-standing invisibility cloak conceals from all angles
Posted by admin in Design, Science on 27. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
The search for the perfect invisibility cloak lumbers onward, but that lumbering is starting to pick up speed. We’re hearing more and more these days about metamaterials, the possibilities of time cloaking, and other such future-stuff. And today, from deep in the heart of Texas, we get another tantalizing finding: UT researchers have, for the [...]
How men can decode women’s menstrual cycles
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 27. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
“Are you on your period?” It’s a question most women have been asked at one point or another by their boyfriend or spouse during a disagreement. It turns out that some men actually can tell when it’s a woman’s time of the month—and it’s not because of bratty behavior. Photo Quiz! Can you tell which [...]
Salmon DNA used in data storage device
Posted by admin in Science on 08. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
Salmon … they’re good to eat, provide a livelihood for fishermen, are an important part of their ecosystem, and now it seems that they can store data. More specifically, their DNA can. Scientists from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have created a "write-once-read-many-times" (WORM) memory device, [...]
IBM announces its annual "Next 5 in 5" list
Posted by admin in Science on 21. Dec, 2011 | 0 Comments
It’s late December, and that means that it’s time once again for IBM’s Next 5 in 5 list. Every year since 2006, the corporation has put together an annual roundup of the top five emerging technologies that its researchers feel "will change the way we work, live and play" within the next five years. Here’s [...]
