MIT made a table-like robot that can build with blocks. No humans needed.
A clever attack by French researchers turns your headphone cable into an antenna to send surreptitious voice commands.
Volvo’s been bullish about self-driving vehicles, but it’s much more coy when it comes to electric cars. The company’s latest XC90 has a hybrid edition, and there’s an existing V60 plug-in, but nothing fully electric. Finally, the Swedish auto-maker is ready to go all in, confirming an all-electric vehicle will go on sale in 2019, plus plans to offer hybrid versions of every car in its range, alongside a new “series 40” range of smaller electrified cars. That’s still quite a wait for the full EV, and the hybrids might not show up until 2017, but as the Wall Street Journal suggests, Volvo might have been spurred on to make the announcement by the recent VW scandal around diesel engines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBrPPnyXc58
This is one of the most fascinating and riveting documentaries I’ve ever seen…
Watch it.
Now.
Thank me later.
And you will.
Researchers have reached an all time solar-to-hydrogen efficiency high of 24 percent.
Having reached a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than 24 percent, it may soon be feasible to harness the sun to split water.
Asian Scientist Newsroom | October 13, 2015 | In the Lab.
Scientists have managed to grow a miniature brain, and there’s a whole bunch of other so called ‘organoids’ we’re currently learning to perfect. We can now add kidneys to the tick box.
There have been a few mini-organ breakthroughs lately, and now we can grow simple kidneys in the lab too.
Regenerative medicine has incredible promise and provides hope that one day virtually any injury could be corrected. Scientists have managed to grow a miniature brain, and there’s a whole bunch of other so called ‘organoids’ we’re currently learning to perfect. We can now add kidneys to the tick box.
Potential
Astronomers have spotted a strange mess of objects whirling around a distant star. Scientists who search for extraterrestrial civilizations are scrambling to get a closer look.
The reporting is actually more responsible than the title — it’s a star with something blocking its light in an odd way, which might be due to a bunch of dust inherited from a smaller star that recently passed by. It may also be a Dyson Sphere under construction…
Scientists have no idea what’s going on.