Ever think about taking your DNA out for a walk? Well not exactly taking YOUR DNA out for a walk but scientists have made DNA molecules that can walk. It turns out that DNA is a pretty interesting molecule and you can make all ... Read More...
No, not yet -- don't worry! But they're working on it -- and a recent study showed that they can tell at least some things by reading your brain waves. They gave a group of study subjects two different colored patterns to look at, ... Read More...
Have you ever put a piece of paper in water and let it sit? It doesn't last long! Well, a company called Ecology Coatings has accidentally hit upon a way to make paper waterproof -- and still writeable! The company makes a special kind ... Read More...
When you turn on a light at home, the bulb lights up because an electric current has travelled from the breaker box in your home's electrical system to the outlet the lamp is plugged into, and on through the power cord to provide electrical ... Read More...
Have you ever dreams of going into space? How about to hop over to Mars and see what it's like? Well, even if you don't get there yourself you can at least have the next best thing pretty soon -- the most high quality ... Read More...
You've probably seen all kinds of robots -- some that look like cars, some that look like lots of metal and wires, and some that even look like people. This robot is called the SAUVIM robot, and it's the first robot that's designed to ... Read More...
Have you ever been to a concert where one of the performers is a live drummer? Maybe you've seen all the microphones attached to the different pieces of drum kit. Drummers need to use these microphones to amplify their sound, so that their volume ... Read More...
Sending people into space can not only be very risky, but also very expensive. Human missions need a lot of support from teams on the ground. One way of keeping costs lower would be to use robots in place of at least some of ... Read More...
Have you ever seen a game show on TV? How would you like to be a part of the show, without ever having to leave your own house? In fact, could you imagine being on the game show by sending in videos of yourself ... Read More...
Would you ride in a robotic vehicle that drives itself? If you can believe it, there's a whole contest where a bunch of driverless cars will try to beat each other to the finish line in a 200 mile race. The race, called the ... Read More...
If you were a scientist studying the brain, you would want to get as many details as you could about how even the smallest part of the brain works. A single brain cell, called a neuron, is very difficult to observe in its natural ... Read More...
So we've been talking a little bit about carbon nanotubes in some of the stories below. If you remember, scientists are finding lots of different ways these nanotubes can be useful, because they are very light but also very strong. One more way scientists ... Read More...
Who would want to grow meat in a lab? Well, astronauts on long space flights might be interested, because regular meat would take up a lot of space in a small spacecraft. NASA has shown that just such a thing can be done on ... Read More...
How'd you like to put on a spacesuit? Better yet -- how'd you like to put on a spacesuit that will give you skills that would help you look for life on other planets? That's exactly what researchers in Spain have built. Geology is ... Read More...
Maybe you've heard of DNA tests being used to help solve crimes. A few flakes of skin or a hair found at the scene of a crime can be used by scientists to make a kind of genetic fingerprint that can help identify whether ... Read More...
You might know that computers today use electrons to pass signals back and forth on silicon chips. But scientists are always looking for better and faster ways to send and store information, and are dreaming about what computers of the future would look like. ... Read More...
You may already know that the food you eat is made up of lots of tiny particles that your body breaks down and digests to give you energy. But what if our food had other kinds of particles in it, say, very small nanoparticles ... Read More...
When someone has cancer, doctors often treat them with a number of different drugs that help to kill the cancer cells. The problem is, sometimes healthy cells get harmed by the very powerful drugs that doctors only want to work on the bad cells. ... Read More...
How would you feel about a robot bug crawling inside of you? At Carnegie Mellon Univeristy, scientists are making a medical robot that can do just that, but it's not just to gross you out! The Bugbot is a very tiny robot with six legs ... Read More...
Our brain cells are changing all the time. They're full of chemicals that send messages from one cell to another, but they're much faster than the telephone! If scientists had a way of looking at those chemicals in our brains as they change, it would ... Read More...
