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Shape-Morphing Robots -Cool Video!

Researchers Carnegie Mellon are working "to create swarms of microscopic robots capable of morphing into virtually any form by clinging together," reports New Scientist. The robots use electromagnetic forces to move themselves, communicate, and even share power.

Lost Egyptian City Reveals Horrors of Lives of Pharaoh's Builders

Evidence of the brutal lives endured by some ancient Egyptians to build the monuments of the Pharaohs has been uncovered by archaeologists at Amarna, a new capital built on the orders of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, 3,500 years ago.

Archaeologists from a British-based team made a breakthrough when they found human bones in the desert, which had been washed out by floods.

   




 

Star Trek “Ion Shield” Offers Solution for Mars-bound Space Crews

“It’s no accident that Star Trek featured this sort of technology, as it had advisers who work for NASA and it’s feasible. The shields seem to be some sort of invisible barrier, which energy bounces off, and that sort of deflector shield is exactly what we’re talking about.”

~ Dr Ruth Bamford, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire

The RFID Controversy: Corporations Want to Imbed Traceable Microchips to Everything We Buy, Wear, Drive and Read

“Once a tagged item is associated with a particular individual, personally identifiable information can be obtained and then aggregated to develop a profile."

~ U.S. Government Accountability Office report on RFID technology

A future full of traceable microchips is much closer than many would like to think. Already microchips are being found in computer printers, car tires, personal care products, clothing, library books and "contactless" payment cards. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, experts say.

Steve Jobs vs. The Book

At Macworld a few weeks ago, and the man who is loved by many – Steve Jobs – decided to make a fool of himself; repeatedly. First, he decided to snob a Mac fan -Violet Blue, one of the internet generations stars; she is an author and a sex-educator, who is a big Mac fan. She decided to see if she could speak to el Jobso; here’s how it went down, in her own words.

Hey Night Owls: It's in Your Genes

Your preference for being a "lark" or a "night-owl" is largely determined by genes, a study suggests.
Research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that skin cells can be used to measure the speed of a person's internal body clock, which can be affected by various genes..

Bionic Lens: Now Everyone Can Have Terminator Vision!

The world just keeps getting further and further in to the advanced technical age we were promised when we were kids. This time, it’s the futuristic idea of being able to see images or data on your glasses, or in this case, in your contact lenses.

Electrical engineer Babak Parviz, of the University of Washington, has built a bionic lens that will essentially enable maps and videos to be beamed right in front of the viewers eyes. Built of microscopic circuits fixed to a flexible plastic, this technology is, of course, being likened to that of the Terminator’s vision from the hit movies.

Robot Drones Fight the Blight

A group of agricultural scientists are using high tech modern technology to battle the potato blight.  But this isn't a group of time-traveling daredevils out to restore a lost Great Celtic Global Empire by undoing the potato famine that killed over a million in the nineteenth century - they're battling a very real and current risk to North American farming.

Spy Satellite the Size of a Bus Coming Home Faster Than Planned

Watch the skies - for the next few weeks there's a small but non-zero chance that nine tons of mysteriously unidentified United States property could fireball into your skull.  And from the way people are talking, it seems like your crushed ashes would be scooped up into an envelope marked "ABOVE TOP SECRET" and interred in a sealed bank vault ten miles below Area 51.

Synthetic Life: Two Down, One to Go

For the first time ever, scientists announced last week that they have finally successfully created an entire synthetic genome. Working diligently in the lab, scientists were able to stitch together the DNA of the smallest known free-living bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium. The research is hailed as a groundbreaking event in genetic manipulation that will one day lead to the "routine" creation of synthetic genomes—possibly including chromosomes in larger animals like mammals.