We've long been fascinated by but it has been fictional. Now a team of researchers has created a perceptual illusion of having an invisible body. You won't just 'feel' invisible like no one notices…

A genetic test that can prevent 'killer' bees from spreading around the world has been created in a new research effort. Africanized honeybees are highly aggressive and very difficult to manage…

Forget vibrating joysticks on your Xbox, Rice University engineers have invented a glove that allows a user to feel what they're touching while gaming. The Hands Omni provides a way for gamers…

While growing new organs from a patient's own stem cells is the future much of science is working toward, there are people who need replacements right now. Lots of people are signed up for organ…

In the private sector, pitching a research idea is a relatively straight-forward proposition. Drug companies, for example, know that only 1 out of 5,000 research programs is going to make it to…

Nearly anyone touched by ovarian cancer will tell you that almost 80 percent of patients reach advanced stages before diagnosis and that most patients are expected to die within five years. One…

A new wearable device turns the user’s thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad, which could let users control wireless devices when their hands are full or enable subtle communication in…

A research team has created a prototype video camera that is fully self-powered. Solar panels and digital cameras obviously have different purposes - one converts light to power while the other…

A newly developed assay may help investigators identify novel drug candidates to protect kidney cells and prevent or treat chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD affects more than 13% of adults in the…

I used to work with a programming language called Business Basic.  It was descended through several generations from the original Dartmouth BASIC.  Like all primitive 3rd generation…