Scientists are facing a number of barriers as they try to develop circuits that are microscopic in size, including how to reliably control the current that flows through a circuit that is the width of a single molecule.Alexander Shestopalov, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Rochester, has done just that, thereby... Continue Reading →

The negative social, physical and mental health effects of childhood bullying are still evident nearly 40 years later, according to new research by King’s College London. The study is the first to look at the effects of bullying beyond early adulthood, and is published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.The findings come from the British... Continue Reading →

I saw the future of work in a San Francisco garage two years ago. Or rather, I was in proximity to the future of work, but happened to be looking the other direction.At the time, I was visiting a space startup building satellites behind a carport. But just behind them—a robot was cooking up burgers.... Continue Reading →

The University of California, San Diego's Nanofabrication Cleanroom Facility (Nano3) is the first institution to obtain a novel FEI Scios dual-beam microscope, with an adaptation for use at cryogenic temperatures. The new microscope will enable research among a highly diverse user base, ranging from materials science to structural and molecular biology.As Nano3 Technical Director Bernd... Continue Reading →

There are changes coming to FICO, a broadly used credit score, that may mean higher credit scores for many consumers. Banks, credit card issuers, auto lenders, and other businesses use those scores to decide whether to lend to consumers and how much interest to charge them. A higher score could get you better terms on... Continue Reading →

Stroke patients enrolled into a very small pilot study designed to investigate the safety and feasibility of a stem cell therapy are all showing promising signs of recovery six months after the treatment was administered. While further studies are warranted, the results are encouraging because the cells were well tolerated by all participants and no... Continue Reading →

Here is a news that is awesome for Former NSA Employee Edward Snowden, but a bitter truth for US Spy Agency NSA, as now Snowden has been granted three years more asylum in Russia, Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said on Thursday. “He has got a three-year residence permit starting from August 1,” Kucherena told a... Continue Reading →

Your bag of potato chips can hear what you're saying. Now, researchers from MIT are trying to figure out a way to make that bag of chips tell them everything that you said — and apparently they have a method that works. By pointing a video camera at the bag while audio is playing or... Continue Reading →

He’s designed apartment blocks in the shape of mountains and a power station with a ski-slope on the roof. He’s made museums that erupt from the ground with cartoonish glee, and proposed a viewing tower like a gigantic spiralling lollipop. Now the Danish architectural wunderkind, Bjarke Ingels, has reinvented the zoo – by making humans... Continue Reading →

uBeam on Wednesday announced its first "fully functional prototype," ready to build for consumers. This is a company that on its Careers page tells visitors, "We're on a mission to untether the world," and that they seek people "looking to make tectonic shifts in the world of electricity." The Wednesday announcement has attracted attention in... Continue Reading →