Jun 16 How bacteria sweat could one day power a robot By Catherine Woods Scientists at Columbia University create a cheap, sustainable energy source from bacteria and evaporation. Continue reading
Jun 11 Bill Nye’s experimental satellite finally sails on the solar wind By Catherine Woods It’s a bird…it’s a plane…No! It’s a sun-propelled cubesat! Born in 1999, cubesats are the generation Y of satellites. They’re miniaturized and inexpensive, while doing the stuff of regular satellites — tracking stars and beaming telecommunications. But like any space… Continue reading
Jun 08 Injectable nanoscopic mesh could one day be used to monitor our organs By Nsikan Akpan This electronic mesh might one day tell doctors when your brain needs a tuneup. Continue reading
May 22 3 white collar jobs that robots are already mastering By Joanne Elgart Jennings Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen plenty of blue collar jobs outsourced to machines — from auto assembly to customer service. Now, as computers, equipped with artificial intelligence, increasingly take over “information jobs,” tasks that were once reserved for… Continue reading
May 20 Watch 8:15 Will your job get outsourced to a robot? By PBS News Hour It's not just basic tasks anymore: Computers can now do work once deemed possible only by humans. And in some cases, the computers are doing it better. In an economy driven increasingly by intelligent automation, which jobs will survive? Hari… Continue watching
May 12 Watch 7:21 Why we’re teaching computers to help treat cancer By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 08 Watch 9:03 How smart is today’s artificial intelligence? By PBS News Hour Artificial intelligence is creeping into our everyday lives through technology like check-scanning machines and GPS navigation. How far away are we from making intelligent machines that actually have minds of their own? Hari Sreenivasan reports on the ethical considerations of… Continue watching
Apr 24 Watch 5:36 How maps packed with data help scientists fight malaria By PBS News Hour High-tech maps may help researchers understand and predict disease outbreaks like malaria, an illness that kills between 600,000 and 1 million people each year. Scientists have begun using temperatures, rainfall patterns and other data to better target areas most at… Continue watching
Apr 14 Watch 6:49 How drinking water pipes can also deliver electric power By PBS News Hour Hydroelectricity -- using the flow of water to generate power -- has long been a small but key source of renewable energy. How can cities around the country better harness that potential? A startup in Portland, Oregon, has developed a… Continue watching
Apr 12 A battery that could charge your phone in one minute? Ask Stanford. By Carey Reed Scientists at Stanford University say they have developed an ultrafast aluminum battery that can be charged in as little as one minute. Continue reading