Tech : Science World Report

Aug 13, 2013 11:11 PM EDT

Hyperloop And The Future of Ground Transport

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and co-founder of PayPal, has announced his vision for a new high-speed ground transportation system called “Hyperloop”. The system would connect Los Angeles to San Francisco and, compared to the high-speed train link under development, it could provide a more effici...

Aug 13, 2013 06:53 PM EDT

More Realistic Simulated Cloth for More Realistic Video Games and Movies

Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new model to simulate with unprecedented accuracy on the computer the way cloth and light interact. The new model can be used in animated movies and in video games to make cloth look more realistic.

Aug 13, 2013 02:54 PM EDT

Penn Scientists Design Leaping, Climbing Robot with Six Legs (Video)

The science of robot movement has continued to expand in recent years. Now, researchers have developed a new way for a robot to get around. They've created RHex, an all-terrain walking robot that could potentially be used to climb over rubble in rescue missions.

Aug 13, 2013 01:47 PM EDT

Scientists Use Atomic Clocks as Quantum Simulators

Atomic clocks can be used for a variety of applications. Now, scientists have used one of these devices as a quantum simulator, mimicking the behavior of a different, more complex quantum system.

Aug 13, 2013 01:04 PM EDT

Crowdsourcing the Weather: Smartphone Batteries Reveal Temperature Information

Smartphones can be used in many different ways. And now, scientists are looking at a way to use the batteries in these devices to predict the weather. Weather experts and smartphone app developers have teamed up to develop a way to crowdsource temperature information from smartphone batteries.

Aug 13, 2013 09:48 AM EDT

Scientists Optically Levitate Tiny Nanodiamond in Free Space

There may be a new technique that could have implications for the field of quantum information and computing. Scientists have measured for the first time light emitted by photoluminescence from a nanodiamond levitating in free space.

Aug 12, 2013 07:25 AM EDT

More Than 100,000 Enroll For a One-Way Trip to Mars [VIDEO]

More than 100,000 people have joined the growing movement and are anxiously waiting to be the first ones to colonize on another planet. With the hope to spend rest of their lives in the Martian atmosphere they have applied for a one way trip.

Aug 11, 2013 10:54 PM EDT

Nanotech Self-Assembly Enables Novel Soft Materials With Special Properties

In order to help materials engineers to make ever better fabrics and soft materials from novel composites, scientists in the EU are developing design tools and tailor-made functions for soft materials that will soon be possible with cost- and energy-efficient controlled self-assembly.

Aug 09, 2013 02:52 PM EDT

Archaeologists Track Down the Real Mona Lisa with DNA Evidence

Who was Mona Lisa? Scientists may have found out new clues to who Mona Lisa actually was. They've decided to conduct DNA testing on the remains of a woman that they believe could have been the subject of the famous portrait.

Aug 09, 2013 08:53 AM EDT

Scientists Discover New Class of Solids That's Neither Crystal Nor Glass: Q-Glass

There may be a new category when it comes to deciding what sort of solid you're dealing with. Scientists have discovered a new branch of solids that are neither pure glass, nor crystal nor even exotic quasicrystal. The findings could give researchers a new material to work with in the future.

Aug 09, 2013 05:56 AM EDT

ULA's Delta 4 Successfully Launches Defense Communication Satellite into Orbit

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 4 rocket was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Wednesday, August 7 at 8.29 p.m. EDT.

Aug 08, 2013 08:59 PM EDT

Making Fertilizer Out of Thin Air Will Revolutionize Agriculture

Each year more than 1 million tonnes of mineral nitrogen fertiliser is applied to arable and grass crops in the UK. This pollutes waterways through nitrate run-off and the atmosphere from the release of ammonia and nitrogen oxides.