Tech : Science World Report

May 17, 2012 08:26 AM EDT

VIDEO: Paralyzed Woman Uses Thoughts to Move Robotic Arm

Using just her thoughts, a 58-year-old paralyzed woman instructed a robotic arm to grasp a cup of coffee and guide it to her mouth where she sipped from a straw, the first drink she has been able to serve herself in 15 years.

May 16, 2012 02:46 PM EDT

Apple readies iPhone with Bigger Screen: Sources

Apple Inc plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.

May 16, 2012 11:52 AM EDT

A Step Towards Ultrahigh-Density Memory Devices

Researchers at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering have developed the first ferroelectric columnar liquid crystal, a potential candidate for an ultrahigh-density memory device.

May 16, 2012 06:47 AM EDT

China Mobile in Talks with Apple for iPhone

China Mobile, the world's biggest telecom carrier by subscribers, said on Wednesday it is negotiating with Apple Inc to carry the popular iPhone in China.

May 14, 2012 02:38 PM EDT

Got a Pirate Problem? There's Even an App for That

The Department of Defense will begin funding an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored project aimed at developing Web applications to help multinational navies police the world's oceans, officials announced May 14.

May 14, 2012 10:44 AM EDT

Floating Robots Use GPS-enabled Smartphones to Track Water Flow

A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River today (Wednesday, May 9) in a field test organized by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley. The smartphone-equipped floating robots demonstrated the next generation of water monitoring technology, promising to transf...

May 14, 2012 09:10 AM EDT

Sonic Boom Heads for a Thump

NASA's aeronautical innovators are one step closer to confidently crafting a viable commercial airliner that can fly faster than the speed of sound, yet produce a sonic boom that is quiet enough not to bother anyone on the ground below.

May 14, 2012 08:51 AM EDT

New Nanostructure for Batteries Keeps Going and Going ...

For more than a decade, scientists have tried to improve lithium-based batteries by replacing the graphite in one terminal with silicon, which can store 10 times more charge. But after just a few charge/discharge cycles, the silicon structure would crack and crumble, rendering the battery useless.

May 12, 2012 04:07 PM EDT

Wireless Carriers Eye Solutions to Spectrum Crunch

Top U.S. mobile operators are turning to a new type of equipment known as small cells to boost network capacity in the face of a shortage of wireless spectrum.

May 12, 2012 08:38 AM EDT

Navigating the Shopping Center

A smartphone with GPS functionality is a delightful tool. It guides its owner safely and with certainty through the streets of an unfamiliar city. But after arriving at the destination, all too often the orientation is gone, because as soon as you enter a building, you lose contact with the GPS sate...

May 11, 2012 03:46 PM EDT

Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving

Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, Curiosity, currently flying to Mars for an August landing.

May 11, 2012 03:02 PM EDT

'Game-powered Machine Learning' Opens Door to Google for Music

Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the answer is yes, and the results are as accurate as using paid music experts to provide the examples, savin...