Apr 30 On tiny racetrack, scientists test self-driving cars of the future By Frank Bi, Joshua Barajas In a robotics lab at George Washington University, there’s a small-scale race track, complete with a loop-the-loop. A battery-powered car hurls itself around the room, flipping over jumps and around the vertical spiral. “They are really robust, so when a… Continue reading
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Apr 30 As Pacific acidifies, 'sea butterflies' are quickly losing their shells By Elizabeth Shell Scientists have known for some time that shells of the tiniest sea life have been dissolving due to an increasingly polluted ocean. Pteropods, ocean-dwelling snails roughly the size of a thumbnail, have been dubbed by some the "… Continue reading
Apr 28 Physicist who contributed to discovery of Higgs boson dies By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Gerald Guralnik, one of the physicists who developed the Higgs theory in the 1960s, died on April 26 at the age of 77. Continue reading
Apr 25 Scientists create world's tiniest 3-D glasses to show bugs 3-D movies By Justin Scuiletti The research team has created the world’s tiniest pair of 3-D glasses that they attach with beeswax to the mantises. With the glasses on, the insects are placed in front a monitor that displays computer-generated 3-D images in a method… Continue reading
Apr 24 Watch Consumer groups warn dismantling net neutrality could stymie startup innovation By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 24 The 'Commanding General of the Solar Army' wants to make fuel from sunlight By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The "Commanding General of the Solar Army" wants you -- to know how the sun can make cheap fuel for your car. Continue reading
Apr 24 Gene therapy shows promise to help people regrow auditory nerve cells By Robert Pursell A new study outlines how gene therapy could reverse hearing loss and deafness. This may be music to the ears of the roughly 300,000 patients across the globe that depend on cochlear implants to hear. Australian researchers… Continue reading
Apr 24 'Hidden Serpent' fossil reveals origin of giant flying reptiles By Joshua Barajas Scientists have discovered fragments of the earliest known pterodactyloid -- ancient winged creatures with long skulls and necks, and short tails -- that existed on earth about 163 million years ago, longer than previously thought, according to a new study… Continue reading
Apr 23 'Bionic Eye' allows Michigan man to see again By Sarah Corapi Photo by Wikimedia user Alanthebox After years of being almost completely blind, 55-year-old Roger Pontz is getting a second chance at sight. Pontz, who was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease as a teenager, is now slowly regaining his… Continue reading