Technology

Most haptic interfaces today are limited to simple vibrations. While visual displays and audio systems have continued to progress, those using our sense of touch have largely stagnated. Now, researchers have developed a haptics system that creates more complex...

If there is anyplace Tesla should be thriving, it’s Norway. Electric vehicles account for more than 90 percent of new car sales in the Scandinavian country, and buyers here are among the most sophisticated in the world when it...

Table of Contents Table of Contents How VR can help detect Alzheimer’s? A more accessible future for Alzheimer’s detection Over the past few years, virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a remarkably useful addition to the field of medical science. From offering physician...

Several top scientists charged with overseeing research into disease prevention and cures at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were notified that they were subject to a reduction in force on Tuesday as part of a devastating purge of...

This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears....

In the three decades since Brewster Kahle spun up the nonprofit Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, it has scaled up to include government websites and datasets—many of which are essential to the engineering and scientific communities. U.S. government agencies like...

We all know the story: give every chimpanzee on the planet a typewriter and wait until something monumental occurs,...

People who spend more time looking at a screen in bed are more likely to report insomnia and sleep loss, a study has found.The research is based on a Norwegian survey of more than 45,000 students.It indicates that each...

In the past few years, AI has set Silicon Valley on fire. The new book AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash in on Artificial Intelligence chronicles those blazing high times, telling the stories of the...

Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For example, you have electricity and drinking water in your home. When you go to the bathroom and flush the water, the sewage goes...