World's first lab-grown burger
5th August 2013 Last year, Dutch scientists demonstrated a rudimentary form of synthetic meat, consisting of thin strips of muscle tissue derived from a cow's stem cells. They have now gone a s...
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5th August 2013 Last year, Dutch scientists demonstrated a rudimentary form of synthetic meat, consisting of thin strips of muscle tissue derived from a cow's stem cells. They have now gone a s...
Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a new flexible nano-scaffold for rechargeable lithium ion batteries that could help make cell phone and electric car batteries last longer...
For the first time anywhere, electric buses can provide public transportation services that are recharged right from the road. The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), developed by the Ko...
A research team in Hangzhou in China’s eastern Zhejiang province has taken a big step toward fulfilling the dream of producing body parts that can be transplanted without fear of rejection. ...
Just 3 miles from the summit of L'Alpe d'Huez in the French Alps, Chris Froome felt as if he were about to hit "the wall". Taking a rule-breaking sugar-gel cost him a 20-second penalty but he finish...
DID you hear the one about the flies in the toilet? They took off, flew round the world, and started a revolution. It was 1999, and the authorities at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam were looking ...
Aliens could be watching aliens watching aliens. That's a realistic prospect now that three potentially habitable planets – a record – have been glimpsed orbiting the same star. Earlier studie...
Publishing, music, shopping, journalism – all revolutionized by the Internet. Next in line? Education. Now U.S. academics are offering world-class tuition — free — to anyone who can log o...
RoboRoach The RoboRoach, a Kickstarter project, is the “world’s first commercially available cyborg” — part cockroach and part machine. The backpack communicat...
A startup that lets you have your own cloud servers at home is part of a movement that is turning its back on conventional cloud computing IS THIS the death of the cloud as we know it? Space Monke...
Graphene, the wonder material whose glittering array of electrical and thermal properties won its discoverers a Nobel prize in 2010, could soon be helping Apple's iPhones and iPads pack more power. ...
Mitochondria are the cell’s workhorse, transforming the calories we eat into useable energy. They have also been the subject of lots of scrutiny over longevity, since lifespan is intimately tie...
Waterproof fabrics that whisk away sweat could be the latest application of microfluidic technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Davis. The new fabric works like h...
Sooner or later, mankind will be forced to leave planet Earth - many scientists from different countries of the world share this idea. Reasons for that are plentiful: all kinds of disasters,...
Harvard roboticists have created a robotic insect the size of a paper clip and successfully test-flown it. Inspired by the biology of a fly, the intricate design is the culmination of 12 years...
“Where’s my flying car?” Skeptics have trashed predictions of flying cars with this annoying question ever since the Jetsons. But now Terrafugia Inc. has announced feasibility studies o...
Mars One says it has received applications from more than 78,000 people in more than 120 countries for the Mars One astronaut selection program, in hopes of becoming a Mars settler in 2023. ...
MicroGen has developed a “piezo-MEMS” (piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems) device that gathers ambient vibrations and converts them into electrical energy. Vibration causes...
A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, MIT Technology Review reports. One of the ...
Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson has test-fired the world’s first fully 3D-printed gun — “the Liberator.” The CAD file is downloadable* at DEFCAD, operated by Defense Distribute...
North Dakota State University. researchers have developed a new way of embedding traceable chips within “smart” paper — raising the possibility of banks and governments guarding against cou...
U.S. and Chinese Scientists used zinc oxide vertical nanowires to generate sensitivity. According to experts, the artificial skin is "smarter and similar to human skin." It also offer...
University of Nebraska-Lincoln materials engineers have developed a structural nanofiber that is both strong and tough, a discovery that could transform everything from airplanes and bridges to b...
Two European Physical Journal D papers challenge established wisdom about the nature of vacuum. In one paper, Marcel Urban from the University of Paris-Sud and colleagues identified a...
(Image: J. Revillard/Solar Impuse) A solar-powered aircraft has this week been plying the skies around Moffett Field in San Francisco, California, as its inventors rehearse for their next amb...