Science-Technology

Israelis produce clean energy alternative from… spinach By | October 5, 2016
The photo-electro-chemical cell uses sunlight to make electricity and hydrogen from an extract of spinach leaves
Toward ‘greener,’ inexpensive solar cells By | October 4, 2016
Scientists are getting closer to boosting solar cell efficiency and "green" credentials with perovskite materials
An Invasion is Coming By | October 3, 2016
Let's move to Mars
LG creates a TV that doesn’t take sides - and Shomi drops the curtain By | October 1, 2016
Shomi soon to be a no-show
How Israel is saving the honeybees By -- Abigail Klein Leichman | September 28, 2016
The international scourge of colony collapse disorder affects Israel’s bees less than in other countries, due to a variety of innovative strategies
Detecting blood alcohol content with an electronic skin patch By | September 25, 2016
A skin patch that detects blood alcohol content could help drinkers know when they've had enough
Speedy bacteria detector could help prevent foodborne illnesses By | September 25, 2016
Catching E. coli contamination in foods requires a fast sensor
Beam Me Up, Scotty! By | September 23, 2016
"Teleportation," described as "long-distance 'disembodied' transfer" is now claimed to have been achieved
Lamp Champ powers your stuff while Budweiser lights up your hockey games By | September 22, 2016
Making a multi-use, stiff carbon foam using bread By | September 21, 2016
Researchers created a strong carbon foam out of bread, maintaining its original, airy pore structure
Food waste could store solar and wind energy By | September 21, 2016
Nanoscale Heat Transfer in Carbon Nanotubes - Sugar Alcohol Composite as Heat Storage Materials
Audio-Technica makes turntables wireless while Ford ups its audio ante with a Bang By | September 15, 2016
A Ford-able high end audio?
Bringing graphene speakers to the mobile market (video) By | September 15, 2016
A simple fabrication method could make graphene speakers a commercial reality
Probing a mosquito protein for clues in the fight against Zika By | September 15, 2016
Scientists reveal new insights into a protein from Aedes aegypti that could help us fight it and the diseases it carries
The gadgets that enable blind people to see By | September 14, 2016
Inventions using sound and touch soon to be commercialized from Israeli professor’s lab will give unprecedented abilities to people with visual limitations
LG Super UHD smart TV sports pretty pictures and good sound By | September 8, 2016
LG's newest line of 4K TV
Fridge Problems…on the lighter side By | September 7, 2016
Do you think a forearm gold-leaf tattoo could possibly solve that shrinkage problem?
OPPO Digital creates a flexible Wi-Fi - and more - speaker By | August 27, 2016
OPPO has once again come up with an excellent product that works and sounds very well
Panasonic 4K panel offers spectacular picture By | August 20, 2016
Looking for a flexible TV that'll play pretty well anything mainstream you can throw at it and do it with a fantastic picture quality - and you don't care about rattling the room with the sound - this Panasonic could be an excellent choice
Curbing the life-long effects of traumatic brain injury By | August 17, 2016
Preventing long-term effects of traumatic brain injury could involve rushing nanoparticles across a weakened blood-brain barrier soon after a blow
A surprising way laundry adds flame retardants to surface waters By | August 11, 2016
Flame retardants may get into the environment through an unexpected medium: your laundry.
Toward clothes that fix their own rips (video) By | August 11, 2016
A fabric coating based on a squid protein allows materials to self-heal
How to make fish less fishy (video) By | August 9, 2016
Your fridge smells a little fishier, thanks to a stinky molecule known as trimethylamine
Robot Buses & Lord of the Rings By | August 5, 2016
Most systems involve linking the car to a nationwide network, which makes it very easy for Big Brother or Big Hillary to monitor where and when you go
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LG G PAD III a nice and handy little tablet By | August 5, 2016
Despite my preference for a larger tablet, I really like the LG G Pad III on its other merits. It offers good performance, plenty of features and capabilities, and is easy to use and to live with. It's also priced well
What’s really in your swimming pool? By | August 3, 2016
Bad hygiene among swimmers allows harmful disinfection by-products (DBP) to form in pools
Portable test rapidly detects Zika in saliva for $2 By | August 3, 2016
Indicators in a test capable of detecting low levels of the Zika virus turn blue (inset) when the virus is present in a saliva sample
Making nail polish while powering fuel cells By | August 3, 2016
A new water-splitting process can produce both an ingredient in nail polish and hydrogen for fuel cells at the same time
How an enzyme in fireflies, click beetles and glow worms yields different colors By | August 3, 2016
Scientists shed light on what determines the color of a firefly's glow
Detecting blood alcohol content with an electronic skin patch By | August 3, 2016
A skin patch that detects blood alcohol content could help drinkers know when they've had enough