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Sending Text Message Helps Fight Asthma Attack in Children

May 02, 2013 06:51 AM EDT

Sending Text Messages Helps Fight Asthma Attack in Children

A recent finding from Georgia Institute of Technology states that sending text messages to children suffering with asthma, enquiring about their symptoms and providing knowledge about their condition, helps in improving their health.

May 02, 2013 04:49 AM EDT

Bug Eye Camera that Captures Wide Field of View

An experimental digital camera that mimics the compound eyes possessed by insects such as dragonflies, houselfies and praying mantises has been designed by scientists.

May 01, 2013 11:59 AM EDT

Robots Develop Sense of Touch: Major Implications for Robotic Limbs (Video)

Researchers have found a way to allow a robot to delicately reach through clutter in order to pick up an object. The new creation has major implications for robotics and the creation of touch-sensitive limbs.

May 01, 2013 11:19 AM EDT

Twitter Global Mood Ring Reveals Saddest Day on Record: Boston Marathon Bombings

It turns out that there's a global mood ring that measures the world's happiness and sadness. It doesn't use colors, though; instead, it uses Twitter. And what did it find? April 15, 2013, the date of the Boston Marathon bombings, was the saddest day on record in five years.

May 01, 2013 12:16 AM EDT

Blackberry CEO: "In Five Years There'll Be No Reason to Own a Tablet"

Blackberry CEO, Thorsten Heins, said Sunday that tablets life span will expire in 5 years time.

Rendering by Airlight Energy of the prototype HCPVT system under development

May 01, 2013 12:00 AM EDT

Ultra-Efficient and Cheap Solar System Enabled by Microchannel Cooling

To develop an affordable photovoltaic system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2,000 times and converting 80 percent of the incoming radiation into useful energy, the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation has awarded Swiss scientists a $2.4 million (2.25 million CHF) grant

integrated motor drive and battery charger. The image shows a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

Apr 30, 2013 09:38 PM EDT

Rapid Chargers for Electric Cars Could Become Faster and Cheaper With New Concept

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a unique integrated motor drive and battery charger for electric vehicles. Compared to today's electric vehicle chargers, they have managed to shorten the charging time from eight to two hours, and to reduce the cost by around $2,000.

Apr 30, 2013 04:13 PM EDT

Ultra-fast Switching Graphene Transistor Developed

Graphene researchers announced that they developed a super-fast switching transistor capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening.

Screenshot of the original NeXT web browser in 1993

Apr 30, 2013 02:51 PM EDT

Public World Wide Web Turns Twenty Years Today

The web technology was already invented in 1989 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, but it was on 30 April 1993 that CERN released the necessary software to the public domain for everyone to use with a historic statement that made World Wide Web ("W3", or simply "the web") technology officially availabl...

Apr 30, 2013 12:52 PM EDT

Liquid Crystal Silicone May be Key to Self-Healing Materials

Silicone could be used in self-healing materials. Researchers have discovered that during its liquid crystal phase, it becomes stiffer after compression--just like a muscle.

Apr 30, 2013 08:47 AM EDT

Nurses Prefer Robots over Humans: Rosie the Robot Provides Help with Caregiving

Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons might seem a bit farfetched, but it turns out roboticists are already creating her. Now, scientists are asking healthcare providers whether or not these robots would be a good idea.

Apr 27, 2013 09:24 AM EDT

It's Not Survival of the Fittest: Evolution Occurs Without Competition

Is it really survival of the fittest? That may not be the case when it comes to evolution. Computer scientists have discovered that the popular explanation of competition to survive in nature may not actually be necessary for evolvability to increase.