Archive for the ‘Biology’ Category

Dive Into The Ocean With New Google Earth 5.0

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Continuing the trend of online search, Google launched a new service that allows Internet users to explore the depths of the oceans from the comfort of their homes. Google Ocean expands this map to include large swathes of the ocean floor and abyssal plain. Users can dive beneath a dynamic water surface ...

Technology In 2008, Some Important Trends And Events

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2008, improving and influencing our daily life. Here is a quick look at some of the technology events that happened during 2008. Big Bang Experiment: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of ...

Scientists Extract Images Directly From Brain

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Pink Tentacle reports that researchers at Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed a system that can "reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor." According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while ...

Simulation Shows Bacteria Could Live on Mars

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

The possibility of life on Mars has been debated almost since the invention of the telescope. Annual growth and shrinkage of the martian ice caps and seasonal changes in color were observed by astronomers such as Herschel and Whewell in the 18th and 19th centuries. Late in the 19th century, Schiaparelli ...

Skin-tenna: Antenna That Uses Skin To Transmit Signals

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed a wireless antenna that channels signals along human skin could broadcast signals over your body to connect up medical implants or portable gadgets. The new power-efficient approach could make more of established medical devices like pacemakers or help future implants distributed around ...

Researchers Build Bionic Eye That Could Give You Superhuman Vision

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes -- visual aids to help vision-impaired people, ...