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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is ready to perform the most distant flyby ever of a solar system object, an event largely unaffected by the ongoing government shutdown. SpaceNews.com

While the thought of a machine that can squirt out endless ropes of molten glass is a bit frightening, the folks at MIT have just about perfected the process. In a paper published in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturin...

One of the private space companies that have been working on commercial spacecraft for taking payloads into space and to the ISS is Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). The spacecraft that SNC has been working on for years i...

A suspected malware attack affected major U.S. newspapers over the weekend. In what was initially thought to be a server outage, the attack delayed distribution of Saturday's Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune...

Predictions of the future are rarely accurate, but Microsoft's vision of what its technology would look it 2019 would be like is pretty off the mark. The promotional video originally launched in 2009 was unearthed on red...

A new study reports the neurons that focus on coarse visual details could change to prefer finer details under different conditions. The findings shed new light on the neural mechanism that helps shape our perception of ...

Any Apple product will certainly share a special kind of design aesthetics that makes it extremely pleasing to look at, with clean lines all over that deliver a minimalist look. With that in mind, it makes perfect sense ...

I've been photographing weddings for 10 years now, so I've seen and dealt with nearly every lighting scenario possible, from a dark church with no windows, to a wedding ceremony at high noon with not a cloud in sight. Bu...

News Gymnastics is an Olympic staple, featuring the extremes of human balance, strength, and kinetic precision. However, with judges deducting and awarding points, sometime precision and fairness doesn't translate... Sta...

News Medical Design Technology randomly surveyed a number of industry experts in recent weeks to get their thoughts on the key trends for 2019. Here are their thoughts... Staff Author: Spencer Chin

News A research team, led by Professor Tetsuo Endoh at Tohoku University, has successfully developed 128Mb-density STT-MRAM (spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory) with a write speed... Contributed A...

News Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed a hydraulic actuator that will allow tough robots to operate in disaster sites and other harsh environments. The Tokyo Tech Venture... Con...

News Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology proposed new quasi-1D materials for potential spintronic applications, an upcoming technology that exploits the spin of electrons. They performed simulations to demonstrat...

Helping the immune system clear away old cells in aging mice helped restore youthful characteristics.

News The dawn of a new year brings new tech to the market. Starting with their 2019 Santa Fe SUV model, Hyundai Motor Company plans to phase out car keys with smart fingerprint technology. In the new Hyundai ride... Staf...

News For the first time, MIT researchers have shown that nerves made to express proteins that can be activated by light can produce limb movements that can be adjusted in real-time, using... Contributed Author: MIT Topic...

News Abandoned Christmas trees could be saved from landfill and turned into paint and food sweeteners, according to new research by the University of Sheffield... Staff Author: Spencer Chin Topics: Product Design and Dev...

News In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, researchers from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications have developed a simple... Contributed Author: World Scientific Topics: Product De...

For years criminal websites shrouded in secrecy have thrived beyond the reach of traditional search engines, but a group of French engineers has found a way to navigate this dark web -- a tool they don't want to fall int...

News A computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country. Tribune Publishing said a computer virus disrupted production of the Chicago Tribune and... Cont...

News Fifteen teams from three continents met on the beaches of Honolulu, Hawaii, last week for the 2018 Maritime RobotX Challenge. The week-long biennial autonomous maritime system competition--co-sponsored by the Office...

Cryptocurrency wallets Trezor and Ledger are vulnerable to a number of different type attacks, researchers say.