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One man's quest to make historical museums engaging for those of us who just can't seem to put down our phones.

In phase transitions, for instance between water and water vapor, the motional energy competes with the attractive energy between neighboring molecules. Physicists at ETH Zurich have now studied quantum phase transitions...

Assembly of the next great space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is now underway at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Launch target: 2018.

OT.One from Opentrons is an automated micropipette robot for handling liquids in laboratories. The post Open source robot helps automate lab work appeared first on Springwise.

According to a new report, In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, has provided funding for a company called Skincential Sciences which markets “skin resurfacing” products under its Clea...

Company PR tell us wider biz re-org is unrelated to exec exit or talk of pipeline shrinkage Capita IT Enterprise Services (ITES) overlord Peter Hands has strapped on his walking boots and strolled right out of the busine...

We've built robots that can walk, talk, play incredibly deep board games, and even run hotels just like us, but there's apparently one human skill the machines have yet to master -- pouring drinks. Chinese chain Heweilai...

Rain is normally a solar energy cell's worst nightmare, but a team of Chinese scientists could make it a tremendous ally. They've developed a solar cell with an atom-thick graphene layer that harvests energy from raindro...

Square Kilometre Array tech from Oz will increase sensitivity of Bonn's Effelsberg dish One of the world's largest fully-steerable radiotelescopes, the Effelsberg radio dish at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy...

A technique called time-reversal processing can be used to send ultrasound waves through the hand, a study finds.

Ford sent an autonomous Fusion Hybrid around its Arizona test track at night without headlights. The car used lidar and detailed 3D maps to find its way in the dark, without any help from human drivers. The post Ford’s...

Insights from pure mathematics are lending new insights to material physics, which could aid in development of new devices and sensors. Now an international team of physicists has discovered that applying a magnetic fiel...

The journey began early Sunday when crews delicately pushed the 15-story space shuttle fuel tank from its outdoor perch outside NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility onto an ocean barge bound for Los Angeles.

Here's a way to make phone cases cool again: Put a tiny drone inside, and make modular camera modules to attach to it, or to other accessories. It's not a reality yet, but may be coming to Kickstarter later this year. Th...

A new measurement of how fast space is expanding disagrees with estimates based on the early universe, potentially pointing toward a break from the standard model of physics --

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered a topological metal, PtSn4 (platinum and tin), with a unique electronic structure that may someday lead to energy efficient computers with inc...

Textbook code snippets are not Stack Overflow answers.

Researchers at The University of Pittsburgh are adapting tracking and weighing technology for use by the mobility-impaired. The post Fitness trackers and scales for the mobility-impaired appeared first on Springwise.

Autonomous cars are hot and flashy and new. Roads, by and large, are expensive and shockingly boring. But unfortunately, autonomous cars will only work if some radical changes are made to our infrastructure, and this pro...

The company's autonomous car program used laser radar to navigate in total darkness.          

(University of Leicester) The University of Leicester will host Hilbert's sixth problem workshop from May 2-4.

Vaccines and other antiviral treatments have one overriding, seemingly inescapable problem: since viruses evolve, a solution that works today can be completely useless tomorrow. The researchers at DARPA are convinced thi...