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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...

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...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler probe has entered its lowest operational mode as NASA scientists try to determine what is wrong with it.

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...

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.

For the first time, astronomers have discovered a class of exoplanets whose atmospheres have been seared away by heat, removing any doubts about what happens when a rocky object wanders too close to a star.

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 --

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...

When Google Fiber first popped up in Kansas City , it was the $70-a-month gigabit internet package that grabbed headlines, not the 5Mbps tier that Fiber also offered for free. Hopefully, anyone who wanted free internet g...

 With language like this, social networks become a natural point of interaction between people and things, and TAGs will make it seem effortless for us all. This is already the way existing entities on the Internet (inc...

The Tesla Model S will reportedly gain the "Bioweapon Defense Mode" air filtration system from the Model X and a 100kWh battery option. We've heard from a source that the new options may be introduced as soon as this wee...