• Ground Bot

    By Posted on 11.25.2008 Comments

    The GroundBot is a spherical sentry designed to roll up to 6 mph through just about anything—mud, sand, snow and even water. Two gyroscopically steadied wide-angle cameras and a suite of sensors give remote operators a real-time, 360-degree view of the landscape, letting them zoom in on prowlers or detect gas leaks, radioactivity and biohazards. Originally invented by Swedish physicists to explore other planets, the GroundBot features a tough design that requires almost no maintenance and can also be programmed to run autonomously.

    11.21.2008 at 11:36am - Comment by Ahahn

    i like this bot it is easy to run and it can go almost any where. If we could use this in space we could use it on earth for something bigger. the only thing i want to know it what dose it run off of

  • Science

    The Neural Puppeteer

    By Elizabeth Svoboda Posted on 10.21.2008 20 Comments

    "Here's what happens when we turn on the light," Karl Deisseroth says. He points to a mouse, ordinary save for the thin optical fiber protruding through its skull. When a lab tech presses a lever, blue light shoots through the fiber, and the mouse -- which had been sauntering straight ahead -- starts to run in circles. "He's doing that because the blue light turns the neural circuit on," Deisseroth explains. "As soon as we stop the stimulation, he'll walk straight again."

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    10.22.2008 at 10:33am - Comment by Ahahn

    If they can get in the brain they can fix problems that we cant do with drugs or other thing maybe the could even figure out how to fix peoples problems with there senses they could be able to fix a blind person eyes or a persons hearing

  • Technology

    The Personal Tilt-Rotor

    By Posted on 10.21.2008 62 Comments

    Imagine a car veering off a lonely mountain road and tumbling down the embankment. Minutes later, a sleek aircraft zooms in quietly at 230 miles an hour, tilts its wings and rotors up, hovers, and sets down just feet from the wreck. The pilot and a medic load the injured driver into the aircraft and zip back to a hospital at twice the speed of a conventional helicopter ambulance.

    10.22.2008 at 10:19am - Comment by Ahahn

    i think it is great that as technology advances that the things people make get better and make easire and faster to help people and the earth

  • The Environment

    Gaseous State

    By Molika Ashford Posted on 9.18.2008 39 Comments

    In a lush pasture near Buenos Aires, this cow and its compatriots are digesting important information: how much methane—a greenhouse gas 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide—is released by the country’s 55 million bovines. Researchers from Argentina's National Institute of Agricultural Technology connected inflatable tanks to the cows’ first stomach, where methane is made, through a small hole between their ribs.

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    10.14.2008 at 10:31am - Comment by Ahahn

    I think it is great that they are finding ways to use are resource so that we dont wasted them all and if they get this on alot of cows we will have alot of methane but the problem is dose it hurt the cow or any thing like that



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