A school of fish-y microbots could one day swim through your veins and deliver medicine to precise locations in your body — and cancer patients may be the first people to benefit from this revolution in nanotechnology.
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The Great Pyramid in Egypt is the last of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World. The tomb for Pharaoh Khufu — “Cheops” in Greek — sits on the Giza plateau about 3 kilometers southwest of Egypt’s capitol Cairo, and it’s huge: nearly 147 meters high and 230.4 meters on each side (it’s now slightly smaller due to erosion). Built of roughly 2.3 million limestone and rose granite stones from hundreds of kilometers away, it’s long posed a couple of vexing and fascinating mysteries: How did the ancient Egyptians manage to get all of these stones to Giza, and how did they build such a monumental object?
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An autonomous shuttle developed by Ford is delivering fresh produce and milk to food insecure seniors in Detroit — and besides combating hunger, the vehicle could help shape the future of self-driving tech.
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Abionic eye that could help visually impaired people see again is ready for clinical trials — and if it works as hoped, it might one day give us superhuman sight.
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Brian Shelton wept. He checked his blood sugar, ate a meal with his ex-wife, checked his blood sugar again, and wept. His insulin levels were perfect. The type 1 diabetes that had caused him to crash his motorcycle, faint in a yard, and forced him to retire from the postal service, was gone.
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Google career certificates are no longer just an alternative to college — they’re also now a way for college students to boost their earning potential, while lowering the cost of obtaining a degree.
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Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease, but artificial pancreases have thus far been limited to those with type 1.
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Anew cardiac patch developed by Canadian researchers is both electrically conductive and flexible enough to be placed without risky open-chest surgery — two qualities that could give it an advantage over existing patches used to repair heart damage.
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