Hydrogel could grow new heart tissue, without the need for surgery

Universities and scientific organizations all over the world are currently looking into ways of growing functioning heart cells on the heart, to replace the tissue that dies when a heart attack occurs. As things currently stand, the body replaces that tissue with non-beating scar tissue, leaving the heart permanently weakened. Most of the experimental techniques for generating new tissue involve introducing some sort of micro-scaffolding to the affected area, providing a framework for new cells to grow on. 

Festo’s SmartBird, Fly Like a Bird

This time I’ll share about how the people created amazing technology inspired by animal. I think many of us love birds and I have wrote about another amazing technology inspired with bird. To remind us again, you can read “Nano Hummingbird, a Spy Bird”. 


A beautiful bird made by United States Defense Department. One of the oldest dreams of human is to fly like a bird. We can move freely through the air in all dimensions and see the world from a distance with “bird’s-eye view”. Actually in 1490, Leonardo da Vinci was flapping wing models in order to come closer to achieving bird flight. The era has changed. There are many researches proved Leonardo’s theory.

Technology of 2012-2040 – What Can We Expect?

Why are their so many tech geeks seen on Google+?  Simply because the exponential growth of Technology excites us all.  Think about how much we have progressed in the last decade alone, and then think about what the next few decades will be like for us all?  We will not accomplish the same magnitude of technological growth in the coming decade as we have in the past decade.  Instead the progress over the coming ten years will be exponentially more than the last ten years.  With the current growth trends, Google+ also will see tremendous growth if they continue to innovate.  

Does Google's New Policy Really Protect Student Privacy in the Cloud?

At an increasing number of colleges nationwide, the traditional model for student e-mail services featuring on-campus data centers and clunky user interfaces is out. In its place, education institutions are gravitating toward "cloud-based" e-mail offerings that are less expensive to implement, more user-friendly, and more feature-rich than conventional services. In one example, students using Google Apps for Education can send correspondence to professors, chat with their friends, share and collaborate on projects and presentations, and even organize student groups all via a single set of online services.

Indian inventor creates children's science toys from trash

Children in the First World have a lot of choice when it comes to scientific toys. In fact, there are whole stores devoted to selling things like robotics kits, ant farms and simple microscopes. In the developing world, however, such fancy toys are relatively scarce. So, what's an adult to do if they want to get the local children interested in the sciences? Well, in the case of Arvind Gupta, they show the kids how to make scientific toys from trash.

Robot becomes a leader among fish

A couple of years ago, a team of scientists from the University of Leeds succeeded in getting live stickleback fish to follow a computer-controlled "Robofish" as it was moved through their aquarium. Part of the reason for the experiment was to learn about fish behavior, in hopes that human interference in their migration routes could be minimized. While the Robofish was simply a plaster model, researchers from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University recently conducted a similar experiment, but using an actual tail-flapping robotic fish. Their discoveries could help save wild fish populations in the event of environmental disasters.

Robotic Hockey Teams Face-off at Penn Engineering

For students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Design of Mechatronic Systems class, “the finals” are more than an exam; they are a tournament in which the winners hoist a trophy high above their heads in victory.