Robots Fulfilling Your Amazon Orders
Robots are hard at work this holiday season in the warehouses and fulfillment centers of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). In…
Year: 2014
Honey Bees Need Less Environmental Stress
Honey bees are threatened by the parasitic Varroa mite, insecticides, and a host of other factors. Scientists have a possible solution.
Physicists Make a Quantum Whirlpool
Physicists have made a quantum whirlpool that could lead to building computers that are faster and more powerful than anything…
Tapeworm Removed from Man’s Brain
Doctors in the UK recently removed a very rare tapeworm from a man’s brain that had been living there for…
Artificial Intelligence Creates Magic Tricks
Researchers working on artificial intelligence (AI) at Queen Mary University of London have taught a computer to create magic tricks,…
Birds Bond After Team Fights
As any fan of Hitchcock knows, birds often work together and, when threatened by rivals, are capable of marshaling their…
Artificial Retina Could Someday Restore Vision
An international and interdisciplinary team of scientists is working on a compact, artificial retina that could someday be used to…
Comet Flyby Affects Mars Atmosphere
A comet traveling from the most distant region of our solar system passed amazingly close to Mars on October 19,…
Armored Dinosaurs, Elaborate Nasal Passages
Since paleontologists began using CT scans and 3D reconstructions of dinosaur remains, they have been able to tell us much…
Extinct Bison Found Frozen in Siberia
Many large mammals went extinct at the end of the last Ice Age (approx 11,000 years ago), including the Steppe…