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A digital clock continues to run as damaged circuits  heal themselves.

Self-healing material a breakthrough for bio-inspired robotics

Researchers have created a self-healing material that spontaneously repairs itself under extreme mechanical damage. This soft-matter composite material is composed of liquid metal droplets. When damaged,...

Mars rocks may harbor signs of life from 4 billion years ago

Mars rocks may harbor signs of life from 4 billion years ago

This article is about how iron-rich rocks near ancient lake sites on Mars could hold vital clues that show life once existed there. These rocks are essential because they will help to seek fossil evidence...

Activity simulator could eventually teach robots tasks like making coffee or setting the table

Activity simulator could eventually teach robots tasks like making coffee or setting the table

Recently, computer scientists have been working on teaching machines to do a wider range of tasks around the house. Researchers demonstrate 'VirtualHome,' a system that can simulate household tasks and...

Researchers 3D Print on Skin for Breakthrough Applications

Researchers 3D Print on Skin for Breakthrough Applications

Soldiers are commonly put into situations where the danger is the unknown. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a low-cost 3D printer that prints sensors and electronics directly...

Time travel

Time travel

Time travel has been a popular topic for science fiction for decades. Some scientists say that positive matter and negative matter can make a black hole that creates a subway in time that takes you to...

Remote Robot Cleans Trash from Water

Remote Robot Cleans Trash from Water

This article is about robots cleaning up water by being controlled. People can sign up to control the robot. River trash is harder to remove than the trash at the park. Therefore, robots were programmed...

Octopus-Inspired Camouflage for Soft Robotics

Octopus-Inspired Camouflage for Soft Robotics

Researchers from Cornell University in New York and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts decided to build a material based on muscle groups that control papillae along the surface of an octopus...

The Robotic Kitchen Is Cooking

The Robotic Kitchen Is Cooking

The goal of Moley Robotics is to produce a consumer version of a robotic kitchen that will allow you to order food on your mobile device and have it ready and waiting when you arrive home. Mark Cutkosky,...

Leave the Parking to Robots

Leave the Parking to Robots

This article is about how a Paris-based robotics company plans on taking  the keys from human drivers and put them in the hands of a robot.  A six-month trial at Charles de Gaulle Airport has a robot...

Self-Driving Cars should pass a driving test

Self-Driving Cars should pass a driving test

I found this article interesting, as it brings up a really good point. This article's main idea is that we will never know how these type of cars will react in unexpected situations. Hence, it is essential...

Future electric cars could recharge wirelessly while you drive

Future electric cars could recharge wirelessly while you drive

In the future, electric cars could recharge on their own while a driver drives. In addition, this can be done wirelessly, making it easier to drive hundreds (or even thousands) of miles without having...

Researchers 3-D Print Artificial Organs

Researchers 3-D Print Artificial Organs

  A team of researchers has 3-D printed lifelike artificial organ models that feel like real organs. These organ models, which include integrated soft sensors, can be used for practice surgeries...

Artificial Intelligence Predicts Outcomes of Chemical Reactions

By: vaneesha gupta, journalist
Scientists have tried to teach computers about chemistry. Some researchers took a kind of AI (Artificial Intelligence) program normally used to translate languages and then connected it to organic chemistry.
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