Device that Produces Power By Harnessing Solar and Wind Energy Loseva Larisa and Emtsov Sergey are two Russian designers who visualized the wind-solar power generator and Ivan Romanov is the person who actually designed the device and called it Horizon. The device makes use of the Magnus effect (a phenomenon in which a spinning object [Read More]

Oyster – the New Wave Power System Aquamarine Power, a company located in Edinburg, recently presented its latest invention – a new typewave power system, which it plans to install in the subaquatic off the coast of Orkney Islands. The company named its latest invention Oyster. The system features an on-shore base, which, according [Read More]

Researchers Working on Rubber Stamps that Quickly Heal Wounds Using Silver Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working on a special rubber sticker that makes use of new silver nanotech to heal skin wounds faster. Although today scientists are aware of the anti-bacterial qualities of silver, the problem that they still have [Read More]

Camera that Sees Hidden Things Dr. Reza Zoughi, a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology together with his colleagues managed to develop a patented camera that works similar to body scanners used at airports. The camera uses microwave and millimeter signals to scan a certain material or structure with [Read More]

Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery A new type of battery invented in Japan, in the University of Waseda. This is a flexible rechargeable battery, based on polymers. The development of this type of battery was conditioned by the permanently developing industry of portable devices, which become smaller and smaller each year. Researches [Read More]

Synthetic Tree to Collect Huge Amounts of CO2 The latest invention of researchers from Columbia University is an artificial tree that is able to capture carbon dioxide a thousand times faster that a real tree. The lead researcher and a professor of geophysics at Columbia University, Klaus Lackner, has been developing the project for over [Read More]

Sex in Space Possible but Problematic In July, Dr Jason Kring, who works as an advisor at NASA, called for the agency to get the astronauts ready for sex in space. He said that a trip to Mars would last about three years and there’s little chance that men and women working in the same [Read More]

Vulture – The Unmanned Aircraft Able to Stay in the Air for 5 Years Officials from Flight Global stated that DARPA will probably sign a contract to create an unmanned aircraft that is able to stay in the air for about 5 years at a time. The representatives from DARPA characterize their project, entitled “Vulture,” [Read More]

Robot that Could Replace Humans in the Workplace Japanese researchers have recently presented a robot that in the near future could replace humans in the workplace. The machine was created by specialists from Kawada Industries and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). The team hopes that with their latest [Read More]

Scientists Study Butterfly Wings to Make Solar Cells More Efficient Scientists say that the structures that disperse light, making the wings of butterflies so outstanding, could be used to develop cheaper and more efficient solar cells. It is worth mentioning that a solar cell (also called photovoltaic cell) is a tool that transforms solar energy [Read More]

Researchers Analyze Birds to Develop Wing-flapping Aircraft Robots In a new research scientists analyzed the simple mechanism used by bats, birds and bugs to turn during flight. The goal of the study is to upgrade the flying robots. The lead research of the study “Analyzing Birds to Develop Wing-flapping Aircraft Robots “ is Tyson [Read More]

Psychiatrists to Officially Recognize Internet Addiction as Brain Illness An exaggerating number of e-mails as well as text messages may very soon be officially recognized as brain illness ( Internet Addiction). According to an editorial published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, “excessive gaming, sexual [Read More]

Bird’s Songs Vary Depending on the Habitat After vegetation recovered in some empty lands in California, Oregon and Washington, during the last three decades, a scientist noticed a lowered pitch in male white-crowned sparrows. She also discovered that the birds slowed down their singing. The biologist Elizabeth Derryberry considers that in [Read More]

1mm-Thick Batteries That Can Be Printed Out Researchers in Germany managed to invent ultra-thin batteries that can even be printed out. They believe that by the end of 2009 their latest invention will become commercially available. The batteries have already been created by a group of researchers from Fraunhofer Research Institution for [Read More]

Vibration-Powered Generating Battery Brother Industries Ltd managed to come up with avibration-powered generating battery that can be used to charge various portable devices. The company’s latest invention (Vibration-Powered Generating Battery) can be used to replace AA and AAA batteries and power gadgets that consume around 100 mW, such [Read More]

Perpetual Motion Device (Machine) that Produces Power from Gravity The latest invention of a Somerset engineer literally breaks the laws of physics. Dubbed the Alpha Omega Galaxy Freefall Generator (machine), the device can produce free energy from perpetual motion, thus generating more power than it consumes. Another interesting fact is that the [Read More]

Groundbreaking Discovery – Green Algae to Save Earth from Global Warming Previously the main feature of global warming was considered to be the melting of icebergs. Now, however, it was found that t algae, in fact, represents a natural process, which is able to delay or even bring to an end the climate change. The [Read More]

Robotic Arm that Simulates Ferrari Drive Most robotic arms are used for such useful activities as helping people with physical disabilities, helping doctors carry out surgeries and even helping cooks prepare meals. However, the robotic hand called Cyber-Motion Simulator is meant to simulate a Ferrari drive. Engineers at Max Planck Institute for [Read More]

Lying Through Their Tooth James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau invented a phone tooth. It was just before lunch one weekday afternoon in late spring 2002. The press wasn’t biting on their tech-art project — the concept of a cell phone implanted in a tooth, which they were about to exhibit at the Science Museum in [Read More]