To combat illegal logging, this South American rainforest tribe built a DIY surveillance drone
The Wapichan community in southern Guyana used YouTube tutorials to build a drone to catch illegal logging and mining operations on their native land.
Wild new cancer treatment attacks tumors with drug-filled, magnetically-guided bubbles
New methods of drug delivery and controlled release have helped scientists eliminate cancer by penetrating and attacking tumor cells at their core.
Newly-developed ‘Teslaphoresis’ technique causes nanotubes to self-assemble into wires
A team of researchers from Rice University and Texas A&M have discovered a phenomenon called Teslaphoresis with promising potential
Touchy-feely: New force-detecting synthetic skin gives robots a sense of touch
A smart skin developed by Chinese engineers may help robots – and people with prosthetic limbs – get in touch with the world around them.
Chinese scientists built a ‘robot goddess,’ then made it subservient and insecure
A new interactive robot named Jia Jia is unveiled in China. Its creators hope it will one day develop into an intelligent "robot goddess."
New bacteria-powered fuel cells can generate electricity with pee
A newly designed microbial fuel cell may offer a cheap and powerful means to generate energy from our own renewable resource – urine.
Dutch engineers will soon use robo-falcons to scare real birds away from airport runways
An avian drone called the Robird will make it's maiden flight at an airport in Germany in an effort to scare off nuisance birds.
This catapult crashes drones into raw pork to simulate what collisions do to the human body
Aalborg University's Drone Research Lab has built a catapult to test what happens when hobby drones crash into foreign objects.
These graphene-based nanobots suck up lead contamination to clean our oceans
Researchers have developed self-propelled and magnetically controlled nanobots capable of absorbing lead from wastewater
This ‘mechanical jellyfish’ could help us harvest tons of energy from the ocean
Engineers at Oscilla Power have created a unique device that can generate electricity from the ocean's waves.
Physicists are building a quantum computer by studying how people play this odd puzzle game
Researchers at Aarhus University have developed an algorithm based on human intuition that tackles quantum problems more efficiently than supercomputers.
These giant cyborg beetles can be controlled remotely, and could one day replace drones
By inserting electrodes into beetles' leg muscles, scientists say they can now control insect's walking speed, strides, and gait.
