How Driverless Cars Will Keep Their Eyes on the Road
“Eyes on the road” is such a core proverb of safe driving that even driverless cars will have to obey it. Indeed, according to information engineer Roberto Cipolla, one of the biggest hurdles to overcome in the pursuit of self-driving cars will be replicating the visual acuity of a human driver.
December 22, 2015 at 12:34PM
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The Naviator Is A Drone That Flies Through The Air And Dives Underwater
A team at Rutgers University built this super drone that easily switches between swimming and flying.
December 22, 2015 at 11:00AM
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Why It’s Never Been Easier to Fly a Drone
The brisk pace of development has made it all but possible for your local coffee shop to deliver a latte to your third-floor windowsill. It may sound like science fiction (not to mention a questionable business model), but consider that Amazon and Google are talking about making deliveries by drone.
December 22, 2015 at 09:33AM
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Chemist Shows The Science Behind How Rockets Blast Off
When you think of rocket science, you probably think of physics and math. Chemist Andrea Sella from the Royal Institution wants to make sure you know chemistry is what makes rockets go.
December 22, 2015 at 08:49AM
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What could possibly go wrong on a spacewalk?
On Monday, astronauts on the International Space Station carried out a spacewalk in order to perform repairs. Everything went according to plan, but leaving the safety of the station is extremely dangerous and things can go wrong. What do astronauts have to watch out for?
December 22, 2015 at 08:34AM
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Here’s What The Web Looked Like 25 Years Ago
The first website launched on December 20, 1990 and was created by Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN research facility in Switzerland.
December 22, 2015 at 06:36AM
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Computers Crack Life’s Secrets
“Today, even basic experiments yield big data, and one of the biggest challenges is disentangling the relevant results from background noise. Computers are helping us overcome this data mountain; but they can even go a step further than that, helping us come up with scientific hypotheses and explain new biological processes.”
December 22, 2015 at 05:54AM
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11 Smart Ways to Reuse Your Old iPhone or Android
Sure, you can sell back or donate your old phone when you upgrade — but you can also keep that old smartphone and put it to other inventive uses around your home. Here are a few of them.
December 22, 2015 at 04:54AM
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How Intelligent Lighting Is Ushering In The Internet Of Buildings
The LED revolution is over. To no one’s surprise, LEDs have won. Solid-state lighting is changing how we light the world, successfully displacing traditional illumination sources across every part of the global lighting market. Over the next few years, billions of sockets will be in play.
December 21, 2015 at 11:21PM
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AP Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
“Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university’s housing files when he stumbled into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the networks running the United States power grid.”
December 21, 2015 at 08:57PM
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