New ‘e-tongue’ detects spoiled wine a month faster than humans

PULLMAN, Wash. — It may not look like a human tongue, but a newly developed “e-tongue” still…

Would you wear this ‘shoe-like vessel’ made from genetically engineered bacteria?

Transitioning towards sustainable clothing practices is a must for combating climate change, so researchers are turning…

A 3,200-megapixel digital camera is ready for its cosmic photoshoot

The world’s largest digital camera is officially ready to begin filming “the greatest movie of all…

Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died

Vernor Vinge, prolific science-fiction writer, professor, and one of the first prominent thinkers to conceptualize the…

New App Can Diagnose Ear Infections In Children With 93% Accuracy

PITTSBURGH — Do you think your child has an ear infection? Parents will soon be able to…

Phone Service Outage: 9 Things To Do If Your Provider Is Disrupted

AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers across the United States were hit with a major outage on…

Flexible, resilient origami-inspired bridges could help navigate disaster zones

Origami traditionally involves the creation of extremely delicate paper structures, but the art form’s underlying principles…

A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day

A shipping vessel left China for Brazil while sporting some new improvements last August—a pair of…

Researchers propose fourth traffic signal light for hypothetical self-driving car future

Fully self-driving cars, despite the claims of some companies, aren’t exactly ready to hit the roads…

Huge 60-foot-tall buoy uses ocean waves to create clean energy

Giant buoys over 60-feet tall may one day generate clean energy to feed into local power…

Airbnb finally bans all indoor security cameras

Certain Airbnb hosts will need to make a few adjustments to their properties. On Monday, the…

Hat-wearing cyborg jellyfish could one day explore the ocean depths

To better understand the ocean’s overall health, researchers hope to harness some of evolution’s simplest creatures…