While DNA profiling is typically used to identify one’s biological parents and in criminal investigations, a University of Central Florida (UCF) research team has developed a facial recognition tool that…
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Referees may soon have a new way of determining whether a football team has scored a touchdown or gotten a first down with researchers from North Carolina State University and…
On 12 June, during the opening of the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil, a paralyzed person wearing a brain-controlled robotic exoskeleton is expected to make the first kick of…
Based on the mechanisms adopted by birds, bats, insects and snakes, 14 research teams have developed solutions to some of the common problems that flying robots, or drones, could face…
Future generations living and working on the moon, the Mars or even a distant asteroid may get to watch high-definition streaming movies, thanks to the efforts of a team of…
Should robots be allowed to decide for themselves who they should kill, or keep alive, on the battlefield? This is central to what experts from the Convention on Certain Conventional…
Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a 3D-printed device inspired by the liver to remove dangerous toxins from the blood. The device, which is designed to…
Computers continue to pale in comparison to the brain’s sophistication. The cortex of a mouse, for instance, operates 9,000 times faster than a personal computer simulation of its functions. Not…
Astronomers have created the first realistic virtual universe using a computer simulation called “Illustris”, which can recreate 13 billion years of cosmic evolution. “Until now, no single simulation was able…
MIT’s ‘Technology Review India’ identified 20 young innovators for 2011. We profile three of them Leslie D’Monte Article link: http://www.livemint.com/2012/05/11193453/Research–Homegrown-technolo.html Inspired by insects and lizards that can scale rocks and…