JetPack Aviation shows off its portable, turbine-powered backpack
LONG BEACH, California (Reuters) -- JetPack Aviation took to the skies above the port of Long Beach, California to demonstrate…
8 years ago
Sci-Tech
Future buildings could grow their own foundations
NEWCASTLE, England (Reuters) -- What do you get if you put an architect, civil engineer, computer scientist, and microbiologist into…
8 years ago
High-jumping robot could aid in earthquakes, building collapses
by Kerry SHERIDAN MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- An agile jumping robot that was inspired by some of the animal…
8 years ago
How artificial hearts work
Artificial hearts operate like a natural human heart. They are made of soft "biomaterials" intended to lessen the risk of…
8 years ago
Paradise lost: How toxic water destroyed Pakistan’s largest lake
by Caroline Nelly PERROT MANCHAR LAKE, Pakistan (AFP) -- For generations the Mohanna tribe have lived, loved, worked, and played on…
8 years ago
Carbon neutral city (videographics)
Welcome to Carbon Neutral City! This urban development -- with its own smart grid -- runs entirely on locally-produced, clean…
8 years ago
Buzz Aldrin recovering after polar evacuation, can’t go home
Retired US astronaut and the second man to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, was recovering after his medical evacuation…
8 years ago
Virtual reality
Virtual reality employs technology to fully immerse users into a virtual world, cut off from reality. To experience virtual reality,…
8 years ago
Computer games relieve phantom limb pain: study
PARIS, France (AFP) -- Amputees who played computer games using a virtual, on-screen arm, experienced relief from the phantom pain that…
8 years ago
New device allows simple and cheap cancer screenings
NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) -- A new device from UE Live Sciences has the potential to drastically reduce the…
8 years ago
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