Soon, 'cybugs' to access areas where people can't goOctober 11th, 2009 LONDON - In a breakthrough study, scientists have developed what they call a 'cybug', part beetle and part machine, which can be used to access areas where people can't go. The research team from the University of California has inserted a radio receiver attached to wires into the brains and muscles of large beetles.
Artificial skin can't dodge the human touchOctober 9th, 2009 LONDON - Artificial skin covering prosthetics and humanoid robots might resemble real skin to the 'T', but when touched the difference is apparent. John-John Cabibihan at the National University of Singapore and colleagues from Italy, Norway and France, have found that fake skin responds very differently to being touched.
Scientists create artificial nerve cell connections with plastic beadsOctober 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a breakthrough study, scientists have successfully created nerve cell connections with the help of artificial substances, a major advance, which the researchers say, will help make nerve cell repair possible. Scientists from Montreal NeurologicaI Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) and McGill University created the artificial nerve cell connections using plastic beads coated with a substance that encourages adhesion, and attracts nerve cells.
Chemical 'switch' that reverses biological clock pinpointedOctober 1st, 2009 LONDON - For the first time, scientists have pinpointed a chemical 'switch' that can reverse the "biological clock" by making human muscles younger and stronger. As time passes, our muscles slowly lose their ability to regenerate.
Air pollutants lead to age-related muscle declineSeptember 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have come up with new ways to stop by-products from the air we breathe from harming our muscles. Atanu Duttaroy, associate professor of biology at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and colleagues have shown how about 3 percent of the air we breathe gets converted into harmful superoxides, which ultimately harm our muscles.
'Sex robots will pleasure humans in the foreseeable future'September 22nd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Robots of the future would be used for sexual purposes, believes a leading scientist. US robotics scientist Professor Rodney Brooks, former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said he had no reason to doubt that the technology would have 'sexual drivers'.
Robot that mimics humans from the inside outSeptember 17th, 2009 LONDON - Boffins have developed an amazing skeleton robot that moves just like humans. The creation is known as an "anthropomimetic robot".
How people lose muscles as they get olderSeptember 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Even the most well-built people tend to loose their muscles and develop thinner arms and legs as they get older, and researchers in Nottingham have now explained why this happens. As age catches up, it becomes harder to keep our muscles healthy-they get smaller, which decreases strength and increases the likelihood of falls and fractures.
"Artificial trees" can soak up world's carbon emissionsAugust 27th, 2009 LONDON - Engineers have said that a forest of 100,000 "artificial trees" could be deployed within 10 to 20 years to help soak up the world's carbon emissions. According to a report by BBC News, the trees are among three geo-engineering ideas highlighted as practical in a new report by researchers form the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Robots designed using human anatomy may soon move like we doAugust 25th, 2009 LONDON - A group of researchers from five European countries are designing a robot using human anatomy as a blueprint. The Eccerobot project has been designed to duplicate the way human bones, muscles and tendons work and are linked together.
'Artificial leaf' that may help generate clean power on the anvilAugust 12th, 2009 LONDON - Researchers at Imperial College London are trying to imitate the process of photosynthesis by making an 'artificial leaf' to produce clean power. Photosynthesis, the process where plants use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugar, is the most effective solar energy conversion process on Earth.
Even reading certain words can trigger a smileAugust 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Just reading some words can activate a person's facial muscles and make him or her smile unknowingly, reveals a new study. Psychologists Francesco Foroni from VU University Amsterdam and Gun R.
Alcohol may soon power artificial muscles for robots, prosthetic limbsJuly 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Instead of batteries, artificial muscles driving robots or prosthetic limbs might soon be powered by a kind of alcohol that can make people blind, say researchers. "You can imagine robotic soldiers fighting ahead of human soldiers and getting a drink of alcohol to fight on," Live Science quoted materials scientist, Ray Baughman director of the University of Texas at Dallas NanoTech Institute as saying.
Artificial liver, skin, intestine to revolutionise drug trialsJune 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - While animal drug trials have been facing huge criticism from ethical groups, scientists have now created artificial organs like liver, skin, intestine and windpipe that may revolutionise the way new medicines are being tested. Developed by Professor Heike Mertsching of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB in Stuttgart, in collaboration with Dr.
Artificial sweeteners detected in German waste waterJune 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists, using a new analytical method, have been able to demonstrate the presence of several artificial sweeteners in waste water in Germany. The method, which simultaneously extracts and analyses seven commonly used artificial sweeteners, was developed by Marco Scheurer, Heinz-Jurgen Brauch and Frank Thomas Lange from the Water Technology Center in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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