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Elderly Spaniards Can Get Medical Checkups Via Kinect
Long-lived Basque Country is piloting a system aimed at reducing healthcare costs with remote sensors.<p>In Spain's Basque Country, some of the oldest residents are getting the newest communications technology. The region is piloting a system that allows doctors to monitor elderly patients remotely …
How Scientists Could Watch Brain Chemicals Through The Skull
One team is trying to develop a non-invasive way of tracking neurotransmitters as they move through a living brain.<p>Researchers have discovered a way to see chemicals at work behind bone. In the future, they hope to develop their technique as a way of watching chemical messages as they blip through …
10 Scientific Blunders That Could Shake Your Faith in Science
The history of science teaches us to question what we think we know.<p>Some scientists who made great discoveries in history were ridiculed and …
Margaret Fox's Amazon Chocolate Cake
<i>Every week -- often with your help -- Food52's Senior Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius.</i><p><i>Today: Your new go-to birthday cake, bake sale cake, dinner party cake, late night snack cake -- for when the fridge is at its barest and you need chocolate cake now.</i> …
DessertHow Brain Cells Are Like Little Universes
The structures of the universe and the human brain are strikingly similar.<p>In the Eastern spiritual discipline of Daoism, the human body has long been …
First-ever deep space craft, Orion, powered up
The Orion spacecraft – planned to carry astronauts on missions beyond low-Earth orbit – has been powered on for the first time at Kennedy Space …
Branch-Like Dendrites Function As Mini-Computers In The Brain
Previously thought to be passive, the branching brain wires actively compute signals.<p>A new paper in <i>Nature</i> suggests that we've been thinking about neurons all wrong. Namely, it suggests that dendrites, the tree-like branches of wiring that extend out from the soma, or cell body, aren't just passive …
Fright Night: 1988 Lamborghini Countach Basketcase Project
This 1988 Lamborghini Countach is a non-running project with a stripped interior but original engine and transmission intact. The seller says that …
Wallpaper of the Week - Soft Shadows
The wallpaper of this week is an amazing image created in our last tutorial titled Super Easy Soft Shadows in Illustrator. It's the Abduzeedo symbol …
iPhone 5Surreal Photos of Singapore's Solar-Powered Supertrees
Is it just us or do these trees look like something out of a sci-fi movie or, the very least, digital paintings? Sure, there's a bit of post processing done to these images but, for the most part, these are actual photos of Supertrees at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Back in 2009, we posted on …
Arunachal Pradesh15 Women Who Have Won Science Nobel Prizes Since Marie Curie
Madame Marie Curie famously snagged two Nobel Prizes—for Physics in 1903 with husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel, and again in 1911 for Chemistry …
Brains Sweep Themselves Clean Of Toxins During Sleep
While the brain sleeps, it clears out harmful toxins, a process that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, researchers say.<p>During sleep, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain increases dramatically, washing away harmful waste proteins that build up between brain cells during waking hours, a …
Sex Positions That Won't Break Your Artificial Hip, According To Science
A motion capture study explores the range of hip motion required for sexual activities.<p>These are questions you try not to think about when your graddad gets his hip replaced, but when you get an artificial joint, some hip-shaking activities become a little more risky. Like, uh, dancing. Or sex.<p>As a …
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WIRED Space Photo of the Day 2013 | WIRED
Jan. 19, 2014: Solar X-Flare<p>The largest sunspot group of the solar cycle unleashed a large (X1.2 class) flare just when it was facing right towards …
'It Takes A Crisis': How '73 Embargo Fueled Change In U.S.
Americans started thinking differently about U.S. dependence on imported oil 40 years ago this Sunday. Decades later, the U.S. is in the midst of a homegrown energy boom.<p>The oil embargo began in 1973. The United States had long taken cheap and plentiful oil for granted when Saudi Arabia shocked the …
Eight miles of water: underground with Manhattan's new aquatic lifeline
New Yorkers will proudly tell you that the city has some of the finest tap water that you can find. But for nearly a century, all of Manhattan has been served by a single water tunnel that hasn’t been shut down for maintenance since it first opened in 1917. That’s no longer the case. The city has …
How Mya Breitbart Is Mapping The Genomes Of Entire Ecosystems
The microbial ecologist has figured out a way to study the enormous diversity of viruses on the planet.<p><i>Each year,</i> Popular Science_ seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten. Like the 110 honorees before them, the members of this year's class are …
Space-Born Jellyfish Hate Life On Earth
Space babies get major vertigo on Earth after a microgravity childhood.<p>A warning for future space colonizers: Babies born in space might not ever figure out how to deal with gravity. Jellyfish babies, at least, have to deal with massive vertigo on Earth after spending their first few days in …
National Science FoundationPhotographer’s 1 Year Effort to Photograph a Mountain Lion Living in Los Angeles
Next time the circumstances require you to stare through your lens for hours or to return to a site day after day until you finally get the perfect …
Ethereal Elephant Photo Crowned Wildlife Photo of the Year
Each year, London’s Natural History Museum hands out awards for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, and the winner of this year’s competition …
Raspberry Pi Introduces the NoIR Infrared Camera Module for Low Light Photography
DIY camera geeks have a new low-light option with the debut of the Raspberry Pi NoIR, a version of the popular camera module add-on for the …
Treacherous Lake Turns Any Animal That Touches It into Stone
Lake Natron is a salt lake found in northern Tanzania, near the Kenyan border over at the eastern branch of the East African Rift. The lake gets its …
DSLR Camera Lenses and Their Abbreviations
For those of you who want to learn what these abbreviations are about, I have compiled a list of the terms used, what it stands for and of course …