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Kevlar Creator Stephanie Kwolek Has Died at Age 90

The creator of the Kevlar vest, Stephanie Kwolek, has died at the age of 90 following a brief bout with…

10 years ago

DARPA Wants Deployable Ballistics Wall From Inside a Portable Canister

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is currently asking for proposals in the future development of BlockADE (Block Access…

10 years ago

New Technique Allows Screen Embedded Sensors In Smartphones

Given that modern smartphones are now mostly made up of screen, it's getting harder to integrate extra sensors and features…

10 years ago

NASA’s ‘ShadowNet’ Revealed To Be 10x Faster than Google Fiber

Google promised to bring internet speeds 1,000 faster than the current average internet speed found in homes around the US…

10 years ago

Study Reveals Gamers To Be More Educated, Social and Successful Than Non-Gamers

Gamers have always been thought to be comprised mostly by loners and rejects, the so-called nerds who live in their…

10 years ago

Superfast Internet Now A Possibility…. On The Moon

The internet as we know it today is one of man's basic commodities, sitting alongside other basic products such as…

10 years ago

Levitating Objects With The Help Of Sound Waves

Researchers in Tokyo have put a new twist on the use of sound to suspend objects in air. They've used…

11 years ago

Newly Developed “Robot Muscles” Said To Be 1,000 Times Stronger Than Humans

  Researchers at UC Berkeley are working to make it a reality. They’ve created what is known as artificial muscles…

11 years ago

Scientist Send Text Message Using Vodka

Researchers at York University have managed to send a text message which read "O Canada" using Vodka, or as I…

11 years ago

New Graphene Manufacturing Method Inspired By Tree Frog Feet

Graphene is the cool kid in the world of materials, it's incredibly strong and conductive, making it perfect for a…

11 years ago

Researchers Found A Way To Use The Smartphone Camera To Figure Out PINs

It appears that researchers have found a way to figure out what personal identification number someone is typing into their…

11 years ago

BP Begins Using New 2.2 Petaflops Cluster For Oil Exploration

BP have just opened up their brand new datacenter in Houston, which now houses the world's largest supercomputer for commercial…

11 years ago

Disney Research Brings 3D Touch To Mobile Devices

Disney have been working away in their lab to find a way of bringing tactile feedback to mobile devices. A…

11 years ago

Researchers Find Undetectable Ultra-Low-Level CPU Hacking Method

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have created a method to break a CPU's internal cryptographic mechanisms, using a technique that…

11 years ago

New Research May Allow For Atomic-Scale Semiconductor Devices

A new technique has been developed by a team of researchers at the North Carolina State University which allows for…

11 years ago