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POPSGecko-grip Material -- The End of Glue US chemists claim to have made an adhesive material, based on nanotubes that is 10 times stickier than some gecko feet. Like a real gecko foot, it can be easily unstuck with a tug in the right direction.
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POPSStarCAVE A 3-D Virtual Reality Environment The StarCAVE,developed at UC San Diego, is a virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens surrounding the viewer, and onto the floor as well.
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POPSThe Next NASA Rover U.S. space administration NASA has revealed an ambitious plan to launch a new Mars rover in 2009, the Mars Science Laboratory, and advanced robotic vehicle, able to make decisions and avoid hazards on its own.
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POPSMicroscope On A Chip Researchers at Caltech, recently developed the revolutionary new type of microscope without lenses. The devices could be mass-produced at a cost of $10 each and incorporated into large arrays, enabling high-throughput imaging in biology labs. The device is also compact enough to be put in a cell phone and it can use just sunlight for illumination. This makes it very appealing for Third-World applications,
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POPSBritannica Widgets The Encyclopaedia Britannica recently launched its Britannica WebShare program with free online access for Web publishers, a Twitter stream and blog-friendly widgets.
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POPSSex began in South Australia THE history of sex began in South Australia, around 570 million years ago. According to recent archaeological discoveries this took place 540 million years ago between 30cm- long knobby tubular animals which lived on the sea floor.
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POPSMonowheels Clipped from the collection of The Museum of Retro Technology: The strange story of vehicles with insufficient wheels,
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POPSBrains-on-a-Chip Brains-on-a-Chip no longer science fiction? Apparently not: DARPA is holding next month a workshop on this subject.
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POPSWhy young children are able to learn a language so rapidly IU cognitive science experts Linda Smith and Chen Yu are investigating whether the human brain accumulates large amounts of data and handles the data processing automatically. They are studying whether this helps to explain the ease by which 2- and 3-year-olds can learn one word at a time.
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