Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine have pioneered an approach to replace damaged cartilage, combining two low-cost techniques: electrospinning and inkjet printing. That's right. We have the ability to 3-D print human cartilage.
Eighteen months after setting sail, China's aircraft carrier has launched and landed jet fighters for the first time.
Since Curiosity landed on mars on Aug. 6, the rover has traveled hundreds of feet over the Martian surface. In the process, it has tracked up the sandy, dusty terrain, leaving tire marks, scoop divots, Morse code and one tiny piece of itself behind. Curiosity's trails will probably be wiped away by the planet's frequent wind and sand storms. But there is still something so incredible about these little ephemeral marks we are making on another world. Here are some of our favorite shots of Curiosity's tracks on Mars.
In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory -- have collaborated to produce an unprecedented image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy.
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The classic PC game Myst was known for drawing people in to its massive, surreal world. But maker Mike Ando took a little piece of that world and drew it into ours. He made a lovingly authentic replica of the Linking Book that helps the main character ? you ? navigate the world.
Auto-backups, sharing files, simple peace of mind. You should never be without a reliable portable drive for storing your data.
When you have crazy contraptions with big engines that make a lot of noise, you get guys with a lot of bravado and something to prove. And that, naturally, leads to racing.
3-D printing powerhouse Shapeways has commissioned a series of films that feature the work of three designers who use their services, in part to promote the company's offerings. Taken individually, each video is a fun look at clever designers doing interesting work. Taken as a whole, they form a set of case studies about the spectrum of responses available to artists grappling with the new era of mass customization.
Comet McNaught setting behind Mount Paranal, in January 2007.
The creator of talks about getting at the truth via long-form television shows and why he'd like to do a show about the CIA.
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Today the World Health Organization announced four new cases of the novel coronavirus that caused a great deal of worry in September.
This colour-composite image was obtained by FORS1 on ANTU. It displays a sky area near the Chamaeleon I complex of bright nebulae and hot stars in the constellation of the same name, close to the southern celestial pole.This picture was taken a few days before the Paranal Inauguration and the "hand-over" to the astronomers on April 1, 1999.This colour composite photo of the Chamaeleon I area is based on six 1-min exposures obtained with VLT UT1 + FORS1 in the V, R and I bands. The sky field measures 6.8 x 11.2 arcmin2; North is up and East is left.
When listening on the go, killer comfort matters just as much as killer audio. These are the best-sounding, best-fitting earphones you can buy.
It's Black Friday. Time to gorge your eyeballs on these great geeky commercials (to help you cope with all the real ones).
If companies like Gilt have transformed buying last season's fashions into a daily addiction, a startup called Little Black Bag may turn it into a blood sport leveraging a century-old Japanese holiday tradition.
There's no underestimating the importance of facial hair in the world of technology. Look no further than the research of a man named Tamir Kahson, who in 2004 discovered the inseparable link between beards and programming languages. As Kahson so artfully demonstrated, a programming language is only as successful as the beard on the face of the man who designed it -- or something like that.
Opinion "sketch" commentary on Black Friday... and what shopping could (should?) look like in the future
Alfred Hitchcock might have been a bully, a voyeur and a snob, the master filmmaker was also a shrewd subversive who beat stodgy Hollywood suits at their own game.
In an act of black belt digital judo, Walmart is urging shoppers to get out their smartphones when they come into a store.
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It's easy when kids are naughty -- you only need to find a good lump of coal. But when they're nice (and they're smarter than you, to boot), your work is cut out for you.
Selecting safe and scientifically interesting landing sites for the first successful Mars landers, Viking 1 and Viking 2, was a long and complex process. Here's how it began.
Wired Classic (this post was first published in November 2010): It's the day before Thanksgiving, and you forgot to reserve a turkey. Or maybe you are short on time, or just really lazy and don't want to actually cook the meal. Either way, modern food science has the entire turkey day menu covered: Just add water. We put together an all-instant menu, made up of only room-temperature foodstuffs requiring, at most, boiling water or a microwave to prepare. No baking, barbecuing, broiling, frying, grilling, roasting, sauteing or stewing necessary.
Wired Classic (first posted Nov. 2008) Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your grandparents' Thanksgiving dinner table. Most everything on your plate has undergone tremendous genetic change under the intense selective pressures of industrial farming. Pilgrims and American Indians ate foods called corn and turkey, but the actual organisms they consumed didn't look or taste much at all like our modern variants do.
In the winter of 1969, the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog offered to computerize your kitchen.Cooking up a gourmet holiday meal will be a snap, the department store promised. Push a few buttons, and -- presto! -- a shiny orange-red, white, and black machine will compute the perfect five-course meal. No more silly culinary errors. The ...
From the array of Thanksgiving Classic football games to family-style Turkey Bowls and other sports played this holiday, the sports menu hasn?t changed much at all over the years. Yet technology could change everything here ? and soon. In fact, it could change the way we play and watch sports altogether.
These speakers are all about streaming — from your phone, your tablet, your computer, or the internet, they'll kick out the wireless jams any way you want.
Die Entwicklungsländer trauen den Industriestaaten nicht zu, ernsthaft in den Klimaschutz zu investieren. Ausser minimalen Klimazielen haben die reichen Länder politisch nichts zu bieten.
Crowdfunding hält in der Wissenschaft Einzug. Um Projekte zu finanzieren, setzen Wissenschaftler auf Methoden aus der Kunst: Sie wenden sich direkt an die Öffentlichkeit.
Singapur ist das emotionsloseste Land der Welt. Das zumindest besagt eine Gallup-Umfrage. Entgegen dem Klischee zeigen die Schweizer angeblich mehr Gefühle als ihre südlichen Nachbarn.
In Wollishofen werden Männerträume wahr: Ein neuer Flugsimulator lässt Möchtegernpiloten unter professioneller Anleitung überall hinfliegen.
Die Rezepte der Schneemacher werden immer besser. Bereits werden Schneilanzen entwickelt, die ohne Stromversorgung auskommen.
Der Bär M13 ist in Graubünden in ein Haus eingedrungen und zum Problembären geworden. Jetzt hoffen die Experten, dass er endlich Winterruhe hält und danach sein aufmüpfiges Verhalten ändert.
Der Klimawandel sei kaum mehr aufzuhalten, erklärt die UNO-Umweltbehörde. Dabei wäre eine Reduktion der Treibhausgase technisch längst machbar, sagt deren Direktor.
Blutungen, Flüssigkeitsverlust und Schockzustand: In Europa kommt es zur ersten grossen Dengue-Fieber-Welle seit den 1920er Jahren. Auf der portugiesischen Insel Madeira wurden 1300 Infektionen registriert.
Hat der Marsroboter Curiosity Hinweise auf Leben entdeckt? Die Nasa will die Öffentlichkeit Anfang Dezember informieren.
Schweizer Forscher verarbeiten menschlichen Urin zu Dünger. Diese Art der Düngerproduktion unterziehen sie jetzt in Südafrika einem Realitätstest.
Als die Tochter des Sowjet-Diktators Josef Stalin 1967 in die USA übersiedelte, war das im Kalten Krieg der Supermächte eine Sensation. Nun wurden die geheimen FBI-Akten dazu veröffentlicht.
Deutsche Forscher haben eine Alge entdeckt, die Teile anderer Pflanzen verspeisen kann – was jeder bisherigen Lehrmeinung widerspricht. Die Mikroorganismen könnten die Gewinnung von Biotreibstoff erleichtern.
«Der Klimawandel ist eine der grössten Herausforderungen», warnt Weltbank-Chef Jim Yong Kim. Den Temperaturanstieg auf zwei Grad zu begrenzen, sei schon fast nicht mehr zu erreichen.
Ein Russe, eine Amerikanerin und ein Japaner konnten sicher in einer verschneiten Steppe in Kasachstan geborgen werden. Während vier Monaten in der Internationalen Raumstation ISS führten sie diverse Experimente durch.
Es ist unwahrscheinlich, dass die kritische Erderwärmung um mehr als 2 Grad verhindert werden kann.
Laubheuschrecke und Mensch haben ein sehr ähnlich aufgebautes Hörorgan. Doch das Insekt aus dem Regenwald Kolumbiens kann damit sogar auch gut im Ultraschallbereich hören.
Sie sind gross und sehen mit ihrem weissen Fell ziemlich kuschelig aus: Doch Pyrenäenberghunde sind eigenwillig, wachsam und alles andere als klassische Familienhunde.
Die Nasa schickt ihren Roboter auf eine Fahrt über den Mars. Die Curiosity soll einen Felsen untersuchen, der mehr über die Geschichte des Roten Planeten erzählen kann. Bereits in wenigen Tagen soll es los gehen.
Niemand weiss, wer den elften Archäopteryx gefunden und präpariert hat. Und eigentlich darf er Deutschland nicht verlassen. Ab dem 21. November ist er trotzdem im Sauriermuseum Aathal ausgestellt. hat ihn bereits besichtigt.
Tablettensucht unter Senioren könnte zum medizinischen Problem unserer Epoche werden, sagen Suchtmediziner. Besonders gefährdet sind die drogenaffinen Babyboomer, die nun in die Jahre kommen.