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  Most people need a few cups of coffee or a couple of shots of espresso to rev their engines in the morning. Now a team of British engineers have taken this concept quite literally. Not o...
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  Most people need a few cups of coffee or a couple of shots of espresso to rev their engines in the morning. Now a team of British engineers have taken this concept quite literally. Not o...
Smart eyewear for keen swimmers The lap times appear on the goggle lens Smart goggles that help swimmers log lengths have been designed by a UK...
 Keyport Slide: $39.00 Keys aren’t really that controversial, we need them, they work, what else is there to improve upon? It turns out, there’s a lot that can be done. Enter Keyport Sl...
   Timberland Men’s Radler Trail Camp: $65.00 Going on outdoor excursions can pose a problem when it comes to packing, gear can take up lots of space in a pack, leaving little roo...
ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2011) — Scientists have long debated about the impact on global climate of water evaporated from vegetation. New research from Carnegie's Global Ecology department concludes...
Floating Bed: $1,686,800 It’s 2011 and nothing in our world resembles what past generations thought the future would look like, no Jetson-like hover crafts or robots that clean and talk back....
MonoTracer MT e150: $100,000 The first cabin motorcycle, EcoMobile, debuted in 1982. Hmm, let's see ... what else debuted that very same year? Perhaps a certain video game-oriented science fict...
(Nanowerk News) Chemists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences have developed the world's first single molecule electric motor, a development that may potentially create a new class of d...
Bicycle abuse isn’t something you’d expect from the Dutch. But engineers in the Netherlands who love bikes enough to hurt them are challenging long-held beliefs about how a moving bike keeps ...
 Bracketron Universal Bike Mount: $39.95 Part of the fun of bombing down a trail is knowing it's just you (ideally sporting some protective equipment), taking on whatever comes your way. Bu...
 "If I ever find forever, I will share it with you," sings Tim Fite on his song, "Forever". Well, in the quest for data storage superiority, a group of scientists from the University of South...
A 'Diamond' Bigger than Earth Discovered Orbiting a Pulsar A once-massive star that's been transformed into a planet five times the size of Earth made of diamond. The pulsar and its planet are...
What’s the News: We’ve all fantasized about a cell phone battery that won’t quit. Now scientists hoping to harness the power generated when you walk are developing a device that might event...
 (Reuters) - Scientists have found Earth's oldest fossils in Australia and say their microscopic discovery is convincing evidence that cells and bacteria were able to thrive in an oxygen-free wo...
  WASHINGTON: US computer giant IBM announced on Thursday that it has developed prototypes of computer chips that mimic the way the human brain works. The Armon...
 Being an astronomer in the year 2030 will be notably different than it is today. Yes, scientists will still be pondering, among other mysteries, the evolving universe, life on other worlds, ...
Above: A sample of the polarizing organic photovoltaic film. It's always a bummer when your phone starts to lose power and you aren't near an outlet. But some folks at UCLA might have that prob...
We’re going to step into the middle of a nifty science and engineering controversy. Today. On Engineering Works! Listen to the podcast. Is it possible to travel at seven-hundred-millio...
A journey from Earth to Mars could in the future take just 39 days -- cutting current travel time nearly six times -- according to a rocket scientist who has the ear of the U.S. space agency. Fran...
Mesh networks are a simple concept: use the devices in the network as nodes, similar to becoming your own cell tower. It's useful in situations where the regular networks are unavaiable or damaged. ...
What’s the News: Keeping track of what’s happening inside the body often requires a great deal of equipment outside it: Just think of the tangle of sensors in any hospital room. Now, though, eng...
Singapore scientists here are one step closer to growing a human heart from stem cells. ...
Augmented reality software company Junaio is showing off what’s possible with the world’s fastest mobile phones. In the near future, as you stroll down the street, billboards and stree...
The U.S. Army wants to allow soldiers to communicate just by thinking. 
The new science of synthetic telepathy could soon make that happen. by Adam Piore; illustration by Sam Kennedy ...
A NASA image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows portions of the surface of the Red Planet. Scientists have spotted dark stripes on some slopes on Mars in the warmer months, and they bel...
Aug. 4 - Technology behind wireless electric cars could herald an idyllic future for motorists in which they can drive as far as they like without ever worrying about recharging. Jim Drury reports.Â...