Kim Ung-yong (born March 7, 1963) is a Korean civil engineer and former child prodigy. Kim was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Highest IQ” the book gave the boy’s score as about 210. He started speaking at the age of 6 months and was able to...
This is the top – security armoured limousine which has been custom built to be Barack Obama’s presidential car. It will travel with him wherever in the world he goes....
The Defense Ministry plans to spend $24.5 million on eight underwater drones made by Icelandic firm Teledyne Gavia, according to an order posted on the ministry’s website. Applications of so-called unmanned underwater vehicles include surveillance, clearing mines, and anti-submarine warfare. Teledyne Gavia, formerly known as Hafmynd ehf, has been developing underwater...
To find out, physicists go Newton’s Laws on it, and drop some. Antimatter, the mirror opposite of normal matter, is strange stuff. Particles and atoms of antimatter have the opposite charge of their regular counterparts, and they behave accordingly. When the two collide, you don’t want to be nearby–they annihilate each other in...
Great balls of power! Wind power is pretty great: One doesn’t need to do much but build turbines and capture the energy from a passing breeze. But, like what happened to the Ancient Mariner, still air means trouble. Intermittent energy is not useful for a grid that requires a continuous...
A team of researchers from the US and China have developed a synthetic ‘skin’ capable of sensing pressure with a similar sensitivity to the human fingertip. The technology could bring us one step closer to a smart skin for the robotics industry, allowing devices to ‘feel’ their environment. Using vertical...
A team of scientists have put together a series of DNA sequences to create glowing plants using synthetic biology and genome compiler’s software – the first step in creating sustainable natural lighting. by combining these new techniques with the principles of modern engineering, they use computers and laboratory chemicals to...
Panasonic, together with the Belgium-based research institution IMEC, has developed a DNA testing chip that automates all stages of obtaining genetic information, including preprocessing. This development is expected to enable personalized, tailor-made therapy to become widespread. “This is the chip we’ve actually developed. As you can see, it’s less than...
Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous scientist of all time. Both his image and brilliant work on theoretical physics live on today and he serves as an inspiration to young scientists around the world. NAME: Albert Einstein OCCUPATION: Physicist BIRTH DATE: March 14, 1879 DEATH DATE: April 18, 1955 EDUCATION: Luitpold Gymnasium, Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule (Swiss...
Scientists at the University of Tokyo managed to create a brand new material that is composed of 98 percent water. Researchers hope that their latest invention could one day serve as an alternative for petroleum-basedplastics. The latest invention of the Japanese researchers is called Aqua Material and besides water, the...
A retinal implant has given a brief glimpse of light to a small number of blind people, and could one day be a common treatment for vision loss due to injury or disease. Shawn Kelly, a senior systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a computer chip that translates...
Dmitry Itskov, a 31-year-old Russian billionaire and media mogul, is betting that money can buy eternal life. He is the president of New Media Stars, a Russian company that runs several online news outlets. Itskov’s 2045 Initiative, founded in February 2011, which is trying to make immortality a reality, has brought 30 top...
How scientists create superheavy atoms. Last year, scientists in Germany set out to create the heaviest known element in the universe: element 119. For five months, they attempted to fuse the atoms of two lighter elements to form one large atom with 119 protons in its nucleus. Like other artificially...
The research, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer’s Association, reviewed previously published findings on the drug bexarotene, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in cutaneous T cell lymphoma. The Pitt Public Health researchers were able to verify that the...
These are the inevitable goal for products like the Google glasses, moving from bulky spectacles to imperceptible contact lens to read text, check emails, and augment your vision with Terminator-style info or augmented sculptures and artworks. You could also wear them to play video games. The lenses require organic materials...
