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Gymnobot swims in water by doing the wave - Sep 25, 2009

Crave Postgraduate researcher Ryan Ladd helped develop Gymnobot at the University of Bath's Ocean Technologies Lab. A robot fish developed at the U.K.'s University of Bath features a unique method of ... Read story »

Is lightning to blame for global warming? - Nov 4, 2009

Blogs Image: Lightning in KL by Monstermunch99@flickr When I was in school, I learned that lightning was caused by friction between the positive and negative charges in the atmosphere as hot air ... Read story »

Researchers push for new cell phone safety standards - Sep 17, 2009

Features Scientists studying the effects of cell phone radiation on humans are calling for the FCC to update its standards for what it considers to be a "safe" cell phone. Read story »

Researchers still uncertain if cell phones are safe - Sep 15, 2009

Features The question over whether cell phones pose a health risk has been debated for years, and researchers say the final answer could still be years away. Read story »

Wheeled robot helps scientists to understand the visually impaired - Oct 22, 2009

Crave Researchers at Caltech have developed a mobile, four-wheeled robot that could help refine artificial retinas and other prostheses used by the visually impaired. At first glance, Cyclops resembles a bot ... Read story »

New superchip speeds up Lab experiments - Aug 7, 2009

Crave The microfluidic device can perform over 1,000 reactions in parallel, according to UCLA researchers. Microchip technology can now enable chemists to perform more than 1,000 experiments at once, according to researchers ... Read story »

A*STAR taps unutilized bandwidth in TV airways - Jun 17, 2009

Crave Our airways may be buzzing with TV transmissions of all sorts, but studies have also indicated that the actual utilization rate can be as low as 6.5 percent in countries ... Read story »

"Wii hacker" part of Microsoft's Natal effort - Jun 3, 2009

Crave Johnny Chung Lee, the former Carnegie Mellon researcher known for finding creative ways to adapt the Wiimote, has revealed himself as one of the minions behind Project Natal, Microsoft's effort ... Read story »

Internet routing going greener soon - Aug 20, 2009

Crave Researchers have come up with a new way to route Internet traffic that could save big Internet companies like Google millions on their electricity bills, according to an article published by ... Read story »

Researchers demo spoofed SMS messages - Jul 31, 2009

Crave Luis Miras and Zane Lackey prepare for their presentation on SMS spoofing at Black Hat. LAS VEGAS--Researchers at the Read story »

Here comes the nanoneedle--can you see it? - May 8, 2009

Crave Structure of a cell. I just can't wrap my head around this development--not because it's so big, but because it's so tiny. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed ... Read story »

Flexible memory developed for chips - Jun 8, 2009

Crave The repeating image on the blue background tipped off the Nist research team about the flexible device's potential as a memristor. A flexible memristor has been developed by the U.S. ... Read story »

Pirated Windows 7 PCs build botnet - May 18, 2009

Crave A pirated version of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) infected with a Trojan horse has created a botnet with tens of thousands of bots under its control, according to researchers at ... Read story »

Bionic eye can help visually impaired see better - Sep 28, 2009

Crave MIT's prototype retinal implant consists of a flexible substrate, power and data receiving coils, an electrode array, and a stimulator microchip. Electronic retinal implants that can help certain visually impaired ... Read story »

A new artificial larynx for better-sounding speech - Dec 4, 2009

Crave The space-time graph pictured below the device corresponds to the tongue-palate contact pattern for the word "been". A new type of artificial larynx could mean better-sounding speech for those who've ... Read story »

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