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U.S. and Russian scientists on Monday announced they have created the newest super-heavy element, element 118. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from Dubna, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia, discovered the element during experim...
This week, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced that his mouse brain-mapping project has finally been completed. This major undertaking arrives in tandem with other advances in medical technologies that will soon force political leaders to face difficult policy questions. Mapping a mouse's bra...
As technology becomes a large part of many consumers' everyday lives, the risk of overexposure to new advances grows for people of all ages. Do you know someone who is far more concerned with blogging, pinging and surfing the Internet than with eating dinner, going to the big game or even watching T...
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has produced a real-life bionic woman. The RIC introduced Claudia Mitchell on Thursday, the first woman to be successfully fit with its original Bionic Arm technology. Three men were previously fitted with the bionic arm that weighs about six pounds and costs ...
School children will have to take the "P" out of whatever mnemonic they use to help them remember the solar system's planet lineup. That's because astronomers decided on Thursday to nix Pluto from the group of nine planets under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system. The Internation...
Robotic surgery is a rapidly growing field that has the potential to change the way we think about healthcare for so-called "remote" communities, from the ocean depths to outer space. This developing medical technology field employs robots to hold the instruments while a surgeon operates a console t...
Now that it has cooled off in California, or at least it had until my wife saw our power bill for the month of July, it seems like it might be a good time to talk conservation, and touch on some of the technologies that can be used to reduce our use of fossil fuels as well as keep our power bills fr...
For many people in the biofuels movement, it is inspiring to witness and play even a small part in the huge amount of grass roots-driven, Web-based activity the energy issue is presently generating in the U.S. All this concern and activity raises a crucial question: To what degree is all this activi...
A startling revelation about the number of different kinds of bacteria in the deep sea raises fundamental new questions about microbial life and evolution in the oceans. In a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, scientists reveal marine microbes may be so...
The Environmental Protection Agency last week approved a new framework to regulate the disposal of old computer monitors with cathode ray tubes and aged TVs loaded with mercury, a move that is being applauded by the computer industry. "CEA agrees with the EPA's statement that a CRT not recycled is a...
A Singapore biotech company announced Thursday that it has produced and stored four new clinically compliant human embryonic stem cell lines, and that another four lines should be stored within the next four to five weeks. ES Cell International believes it is the first in the world to create these c...
Be it with ethanol, unused or recycled vegetable oil, biodiesel or carbon fixing, substantial efforts and progress are being made toward developing a biofuels-based energy infrastructure in the U.S. within the next decade or so. As the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative fuel source are...
Today's youth are at risk of going deaf relatively early in life because they are listening to MP3 players that are too loud, too often, according to a new report. A survey of 1,000 Britons between the ages of 16 and 34, conducted by Specsavers Hearcare and Deafness Research UK, found that 14 percen...
As a groundswell of support in this country is building for the development of biofuels as an alternative energy source, Americans are measuring the strengths and weaknesses of every available option. Among these, of all the first-generation biofuels in the U.S., veggie oil is arguably the cleanest...
One small step for an inflatable satellite, one giant leap for commercial space travel took place this week as Genesis 1 launched from Russia and began orbiting the Earth. The experimental craft, developed and paid for by Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace, may represent the biggest achievement by a pri...
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