In a surprising breakthrough for the world of materials science, researchers have created some of the world’s most powerful artificial muscles we’ve ever seen. And they did it with simple fishing line. These freakishly strong and cheap muscles could revolutionize robotics, and perhaps one day our own bodies. Read more…
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Scientists just created some of the most powerful muscles in existence
An anonymous reader writes “SecureMac.com has discovered a new trojan horse for Mac OS X called OSX/CoinThief.A, which spies on web traffic to steal Bitcoins. This malware has been found in the wild, along with numerous reports of stolen coins. The malware, which comes disguised as an app to send and receive payments on Bitcoin Stealth Addresses, instead covertly monitors all web traffic in order to steal login info for Bitcoin wallets.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Mac OS X Bitcoin Stealing Trojan Horse Called OSX/CoinThief Discovered
Traditionally, baldness cures involve moving hair around, either from one part of the scalp to another , or from the toupee store to your dome. This week, scientists announced a potentially revolutionary discovery in hair science: they’ve successfully turned mature skin cells into stem cells that develop into hair follicles . It’s hair-raising! Read more…
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Researchers Grow New Hair From Stem Cells For the First Time
The USNS Fall River , the fourth vessel in the US Navy’s new Spearhead -class of high-speed, shallow-draft transport catamarans launched for the first time over the weekend. This multi-function catamaran will transport up cargo and up to a battalion of troops between ports. Read more…
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The Navy’s Newest "Pickup Truck of the Sea" Just Launched
Flexible, stretchable , bendable circuits will make futuristic wearable devices and implantable medical sensors possible. Today, a Swiss research team revealed a big new step in that field : a super-thin circuit that can function while wrapped around a human hair or laid on a contact lens. Read more…
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Science Makes a Circuit So Thin, It Can Sit On a Contact Lens
Have you ever heard of “earthquake lights”? I’ve spent a good chunk of my life in shake-happy coastal California and this phenomenon is news to me—but, for centuries, people have reported seeing a wide variety of illuminations just slightly before and during major tremblers. The origin of these glows have consistently baffled scientists—and no doubt freaked the hell out of eyewitnesses—but a new study seems to have found an explanation (one that doesn’t involve supernatural forces). Read more…
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Scientists Unearth The Truth Behind Ultra-Creepy Earthquake Lights
First time accepted submitter ultranova writes with news of a new phase in trials for an HIV vaccine. From the article: “Some 1, 000 patients throughout France and Switzerland will take part on the trials, with the first phase involving hundreds of HIV sufferers. Participant numbers will increase as the program progresses. … According to Reijonen, the GTU technology developed by FIT Biotech is also suitable for use as a preventive HIV vaccine, however, he says that such a drug is still ten years away.The central idea behind HIV vaccine development is the use of genetic immunization. Genes are introduced into the body in order to generate a controlled immune response against HIV. Gene Transport Unit (or GTU) technology refers to FIT Biotech’s patented method by which genes can be safely introduced into the body.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Finnish HIV Vaccine Testing To Begin
X-rays and advanced photography have uncovered the true complexity of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a device so astonishing that its discovery is like finding a functional Buick in medieval Europe. Read more…
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Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its Time
You’ll need a brand new strategy for Duels of the Planeswalkers, the casual “video game” version of the Magic the Gathering card game. Luckily, our ultimate Planeswalkers guide will tell you when to counterspell, when to summon a massive elder thing, when to reanimate a demon corpse, and how to lay waste to your opponent. Read more…
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How to conquer Magic the Gathering’s new Duels of the Planeswalkers
Binary lies at the heart of our technological lives: those strings of ones and zeroes are fundamental to the way all our digital devices function. But while the invention of binary is usually credited to German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz in the 18th Century, it turns out the Polynesians were using it as far back as 600 years ago . Read more…
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Polynesian People Were Using Binary 600 Years Ago