Simply flipping through a book may not seem like the best way to scan it, but a Japanese research team at Tokyo University has created a software that scans hundreds of pages within minutes. 只是翻翻书并不能扫描书中的内容，但日本东京...
Parents tending to an infant, well, not a human one. This is yotaro, baby robot. He giggles, sneezes, and even cries with a running nose, until you touch his warm silicon skin and calm him down. 家长们喜欢的是孩子，而不是成年的机器人...
Hospitals around the world spend billions of dollars each year to maintain sterile environments. Every surface, especially in operating rooms, must be kept bacteria-free to prevent the spread of disease and the risk of infection. Scientists at Rensse...
When it comes to evidence, the camera doesn't lie. Over the years , law enforcement here in Seattle has used video cameras and their police cruisers to show proof of a crime of just a document proper procedure. But now city council member Bruce Harro...
Taking a leak may soon involve far less trickle of precious water, that is. A California-based company has developed the waterless urinal, saving facilities thousands of gallons of water per year. James Krug of Falcon water-free technologies, says th...
It's Friday August 13th, I'm Mark Licea, and it's time to get loaded.The big Google feature that the company announced yesterday is something called voice actions. This will let you make phone calls, send reminder emails, search for directions and mu...
Some walls can be windows into a world we can hardly imagine, the exquisite details of the stone-mason's craft, the mind-bending world of fractals, with the shapes may shrink, but they're all the same. Or the very blueprint of what we are all made of...
In today's Tech Bytes, Sony brings 3D to its point-and-shoot camera. Sony's unveiled two new cyber-shot models that feature a 3D panorama mode.The system works by capturing a rapid fire burst of pictures as you sweep the camera around and the softwar...
Unveiling a new generation of fast car, this will be in a league of its own. Bloodhound SSC, or super-sonic car is designed not just to break the current land speed record of 763 miles an hour but to smash it. Bloodhound's driver was at the wheel the...
It's an aquatic version of follow the leader. Dr.Manrizio Porfiri of NYU's Polytechnic Institute has combined his love for mathematics and animals to invent a robot that he says would one day be able to lead schools of fish away from danger. 这是水下...
China may not have qualify for the real World Cup tournament in South Africa. But the nation's robots are finding the goal. A Chinese team qualified and won the final soccer game in the small and large robot category matches in the annual internation...
Two years after a tainted milk scandal that left six children dead and 300,000 sick, Chinese researchers have discovered natural biomarkers in cow's milk which they intend to use as a new standard for testing the quality of milk. 曾经导致6名儿童...
W. Carlos M. used to be in a wheelchair. After two years of stem cell therapy that he believes reversed his condition, Costa Rican authorities are closing down the center where he received treatment. The center has a permit to store adult stem cells,...
It can produce more than 75,000 liters of clean drinking water per day, generate electricity and produce medical grade oxygen. It's called the Hydra and the team of scientists behind it say it will change the face of disaster relief. 它每天能生产...
Scientists say they are in a race against time. The endangered Franciscana Dolphin population off the Argentine coast is shrinking. The dolphins are dying in fishing nets and scientists are trying to reverse that trend. 科学家称他们在与物竞天...
