I don't envy the ad-guys working for venerable maker of lunchmeat-in-a-can: how does one get around the fact that 'spam' is one of the most reviled words of the age? Try some good SPAM for once?! Anyways, getting to the subject matter of my post. Some of you may have noticed that Scientist Solution ...

The Copenhagen summit may have flopped because of petty politics by short sighted bureaucrats, but there's still hope from the corporation that believes in 'Do no evil' ;) Google's services are getting stronger and more powerful with every passing week. Their announcement at the UN Climate Change Co ...

Many of you have heard of the ever expanding web of 'knowledge', but have you stopped to really consider it? Almighty Googlplex, I bow to you! I'll refrain from further comment, to save a few bits more... -Thx to Giz

I guess that this is a logical next step - what with synthetic muscles and all (see my previous post or the Science mag article for carbon nanotubes as supermuscles), I forsee a very robotic future ahead! But what's this "soft robot" thing, you ask? Easy. It's your traditional autonomous ...

Remember those cheesy stories from the 'golden age' of scifi - or even the man of steel himself? Well, seems like Superman might have some competion in the muscles department - that too from a carbon cousin. As reported in Science and in WIRED magazine, these next gen carbon nanotube muscles have & ...

One of the resources that scientistsolutions.com offers, which I'd currently place in the 'little known but absolutely fabulous category', is the My PubMed Alert system. It uses a combination of search algorithms on your keywords in PubMed - and can even handle multiple searches, consisting of multi ...

Ah Asimov! One of the great scifi autors' enduring legacies has been the Three Laws of Robotics - and I guess they are never too far from the minds of robotics researchers and tech writers who live in fear of a robot revolution (or have watched wayyyy too much Terminator!) - how else to explain this ...

This time, I'll let the (video) pictures do their thing without a thousand words. Check out this video showing Harvard and MIT graduates being asked concerning how seeds turn into trees. There is an important (and rather sad) message concerning public scientific literacy at the end. Here's hoping ...

Regular Christmas trees have a string of lights, sit in a corner of the hall, look pretty, and spread warmth and good cheer (the presents underneath sure do :). High-tech trees have 30,000 LEDs, 43 LCD televisions and lasers. Sharp unveiled a 26-foot tall Christmas tree in New York's Grand Centra ...

Normal surgical lasers aren't very precise. Heat from their pulses tends to build up and vaporize healthy tissue. That makes them lousy for delicate tasks like brain surgery, where all the tissue is, you know, important. So, as Wired reported some days back, engineer Adela Ben-Yakar, an assistant p ...