Technology
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have enabled a computer to understand the body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time -- including, for the first time, the pose of each individual's fingers. »
The next generation hypersonic space plane just took a big step toward reality as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced Boeing will “complete advanced design work” for the Experimental Spaceplane, XS-1. »
Heat is commonly regarded as computing's mortal enemy. Two researchers, however, developed a method to use heat as an alternative energy source. »
Inspired by insect wings that kill bacteria on contact, Indian researchers have developed a method to treat the surface of titanium orthopaedic implants at nano-scales so that they resist bacterial infection — a complication that often develops following surgery. »
Norway becomes the first country to start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations. »
South Korean electronics giant Samsung says it will no longer manufacture its troubled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after numerous reports around the globe of overheating. »
Nanoparticles designed to target white fat and convert it to calorie-burning brown fat slowed weight gain in obese mice without affecting food intake. »
"Disordered" materials are so-called because they are made up of objects that are in total disarray. Their composition, whether of atoms, molecules, grains or cells, do not lie in a neat, orderly pattern, but, instead, are all jumbled up. »