April 12, 2017 Safe to play? Off-site doctors use robots to diagnose football concussions The nearest doctor is sometimes far from the football-loving schools of rural America, so researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern and the Mayo Clinic put a telepresence robot on the sideline.
April 11, 2017 Scientists tout data storage breakthrough Scientists are touting a new ultra-thin film technology as a major breakthrough in data storage and processing.
April 11, 2017 Seattle-based app turns phone into virtual eyewitness to crime A Seattle man thinks he's discovered the perfect eyewitness: a crime observer that never forgets and never makes mistakes. It's also available on the app store.
April 11, 2017 Chemists develop self-healing material for smartphone screens Even if you break the screen in half, it will stitch itself back together within a day.
April 11, 2017 Humans can now control turtles' minds It sounds like something Dr. Evil from Austin Powers might have come up with.
April 11, 2017 Japan has plans to drill through the earth's crust and reach the mantle Scientists at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) are planning to be the first group in history to successfully drill down into Earth's mantle. Here is what they are proposing.
April 11, 2017 Big, shiny asteroid to fly (safely) past Earth on April 19 A whopper of an asteroid will make a close approach to Earth on April 19 .
April 10, 2017 Walking dead? Medieval villagers zombie-proofed their corpses Zombies are hardly a modern preoccupation.
April 10, 2017 Japan and the US are having a giant robot duel We finally know when the giant robot duel, pitting California-based robotics company MegaBots against Japanese robotics company Suidobashi, will take place. And we don't have too long to wait.
April 10, 2017 These robots can talk to one another to 'see' around factory corners Locus Robotics' autonomous warehouse robots just got a whole lot smarter, thanks to a new software update that allows them to talk to each other on the warehouse floor. Here's how they work.