A Robot Chair Makes You Sit Up Straight After suffering back problems, a professor taught his chair to correct his posture.

A Robot Chair Makes You Sit Up Straight After suffering back problems, a professor taught his chair to correct his posture.

  9:48:00 AM    Science Lover

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John Morrell is your typical professor of mechanical engineering. He puts in long hours at his desk, slouched in front of a computer, gradually killing the spongey intervertebral discs in that keep the spine flexible. Even after he went to a physical therapist for back...

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Making Music on a Microscopic Scale

Making Music on a Microscopic Scale

  9:37:00 AM    Science Lover

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Strings a fraction of the thickness of a human hair, with microscopic weights to pluck them: Researchers and students from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology of the University of Twente in The Netherlands have succeeded in constructing the first musical instrument...

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Sole Electron Reader Opens Path for Quantum Computation

Sole Electron Reader Opens Path for Quantum Computation

  10:56:00 PM    Science Lover

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A team led by engineers and physicists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, make developed one of the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer using silicon: a "single electron reader." Artist's impression of a phosphorus atom...

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Solar Cells Thinner Than Wavelengths of Light Hold Huge Power Potential

Solar Cells Thinner Than Wavelengths of Light Hold Huge Power Potential

  10:21:00 AM    Science Lover

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Ultra-thin solar cells can absorb sunlight more efficiently than the thicker, more expensive-to-make silicon cells used today, because light behaves differently at scales around a nanometer (a billionth of a meter), say Stanford engineers. They calculate that by properly...

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Right or Left? Brain Stimulation Can Change Which Hand You Favor

Right or Left? Brain Stimulation Can Change Which Hand You Favor

  10:11:00 AM    Science Lover

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Each time we perform a simple task, like pushing an elevator button or reaching for a cup of coffee, the brain races to decide whether the left or right hand will do the job. But the left hand is more likely to win if a certain region of the brain receives magnetic stimulation,...

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A Shot to the Heart: Nanoneedle Delivers Quantum Dots to Cell Nucleus

A Shot to the Heart: Nanoneedle Delivers Quantum Dots to Cell Nucleus

  9:46:00 AM    Science Lover

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Getting an inside look at the center of a cell can be as easy as a needle prick, thanks to University of Illinois researchers who have developed a tiny needle to deliver a shot right to a cell's nucleus. University of Illinois researchers developed a nanoneedle that...

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Semiconductor Could Turn Heat Into Computing Power

Semiconductor Could Turn Heat Into Computing Power

  9:59:00 AM    Science Lover

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Computers might one day recycle part of their own waste heat, using a material being studied by researchers at Ohio State University. The material is a semiconductor called gallium manganese arsenide. In the early online edition of Nature Materials, researchers describe...

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Quarks 'Swing' to the Tones of Random Numbers

Quarks 'Swing' to the Tones of Random Numbers

  9:22:00 AM    Science Lover

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At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN protons crash into each other at incredibly high energies in order to 'smash' the protons and to study the elementary particles of nature -- including quarks. Quarks are found in each proton and are bound together by forces which...

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Genetic "Light Switches" Control Muscle Movement The technique will improve research on neuromuscular disorders and could one day help paralyzed patients.

Genetic "Light Switches" Control Muscle Movement The technique will improve research on neuromuscular disorders and could one day help paralyzed patients.

  9:57:00 AM    Science Lover

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Using light-sensitive proteins from a single-celled alga and a tiny LED "cuff" placed on a nerve, researchers have triggered the leg muscles of mice to contract in response to millisecond pulses of light. Light movement: This image shows a cross-section of a mouse ...

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Dust Models Paint Alien's View of the Solar System

Dust Models Paint Alien's View of the Solar System

  6:11:00 PM    Science Lover

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New supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching for planets. The models also provide a glimpse of how this view might have changed as our planetary system matured. These...

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