This bipedal robot could ride a skateboard and walk a slackline
Researchers at Caltech have built a bipedal robot that combines walking with flying to create a new type of locomotion, making it exceptionally nimble...
Unusual metamaterial could double capacity of wireless networks, shows study
Your office wall may play a part in the next generation of wireless communications.
University of Toronto researchers George Eleftheriades and Sajjad Taravati have shown...
This 3D printed vaccine patch could offer vaccination without a shot
Scientists at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a 3D-printed vaccine patch that provides greater protection than...
This winged microchip is the smallest-ever human-made flying structure
Northwestern University engineers have added a new capability to electronic microchips: flight.
About the size of a grain of sand, the new flying microchip (or...
Augmented reality could help tackle fear of spiders
Researchers from the University of Basel have developed an augmented reality app for smartphones to help people reduce their fear of spiders.
The app has...
WiFi could count you even if you don’t carry an electric device, shows study
Researchers in UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi's lab have enabled, for the first time, counting a stationary seated crowd using WiFi signals, and...
New chip could boost efficiency of gaming, 5G networks, the internet of things, and...
Every piece of data that travels over the internet — from paragraphs in an email to 3D graphics in a virtual reality environment —...
Scientists develop extremely energy-efficient technology to transport data
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a system to transport data using atomically-thin semiconductors in a way that is extremely energy-efficient.
The...
Scientists develop new ultrafast, energy-efficient memory chip for computing
Scientists have spent decades searching for faster, more energy-efficient memory technologies for everything from large data centers to mobile sensors and other flexible electronics.
Among...
This new method can predict Alzheimer’s disease with nearly 100% accuracy
In a new study from Kaunas University, Lithuania, researchers developed a deep learning-based method that can predict the possible onset of Alzheimer's disease from...