Researchers at UC Irvine in California have succeeded in getting stem cells to differentiate into a retina. The work was recently published online in...
Robotic couriers are now gracing the halls of more than 100 hospitals across the US. Developed by Pittsburgh-based Aethon, the TUG robots haul carts...
Scientists are teaching an artificial intelligence how to classify galaxies imaged by telescopes like the Hubble. Manda Banerji at the University of Cambridge along...
Researchers at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, Australia are pioneering a radical new surgical procedure that would allow women to re-grow...
Francisco Paz (aka TheCorpora) has released new information about his open source robot Qbo. The diminutive wheeled bot stands only 456mm (18 inches) tall...
Human computer interfaces just got a lot more colorful. Graduate student Robert Wang at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed...
UK based RSLSteeper's newest artificial hand, bebionic, will be coming to a prosthetics retailer near you next month. The announcement for the hand's commercial...
Get out your Olympic style scoring cards, robots are ready to wow you with amazing feats of gymnastics. Recently released videos from FrostyDesign (AKA...
Researchers at the J Craig Venter Institute recently unveiled their first self-replicating synthetic bacteria (M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0) whose DNA was 'programmed' base pair by...
Researchers at Joseph Fourier University in France have created a new biofuel cell that harnesses oxygen and glucose from the body to produce electricity....
The Shanghai World Expo got a special treat this past week in the Japanese pavilion, when Toyota's famed violin-playing robot thrilled the crowd with...
*Update: We've included the Science interview with Venter after the break.
Craig Venter wants to program life the way we program computers, and today he...
Medical robots are advancing at phenomenal speed, and within years micro-sized robots could be assisting surgeons with operations from inside their patients.
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna’s CRIM Lab...
Intellectual Ventures Lab is shooting mosquitos out of the sky with lasers. The invention-focused company received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
This past weekend while attending an Xprize fundraiser in San Francisco I saw self-help guru Tony Robbins and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, but not in...
Research recently published in Circulation Review sheds some light on how human stem cells affect myocardial damage. Scientists studied the long term effects of...
