BYCliff Kuang Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Jan 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM
A team of Australian researchers just unveiled a design for a teeny tiny robot that can motor to the site of a blocked artery. It would one-up the current state-of the art in minimally invasive surgery: So-called keyhole surgery, ...READ»
Scientists hoping to design a tiny, spinning motor capable of assisting in brain surgery are cribbing secrets from an unlikely source: Pizza-dough throwers.
Standing-wave ultrasonic motors are related to the motors used in the ...READ»
BYAlissa Walker Relevancy Score: 52 Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Growing food at home is quite trendy these days, whether using old-fashioned planter boxes, upside-down tomato planters, or the south lawn of the White House. And here's another option: An easy cultivation kit made from sustainable ...READ»
BY Elizabeth Svoboda Relevancy Score: 49 Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Alan Trounson, the new president of California's stem-cell agency, talks about the science, the opposition, and his qualms about working with embryos.READ»
BYCliff Kuang Relevancy Score: 38 Tue May 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation inaugurated its Grand Challenges Exploration--a five-year, $100 million program to encourage path-breaking research that's ordinarily too visionary to attract ...READ»
