Food companies cooking up a novel product will soon be able to check how elderly people will fare when they try to chew on it, thanks to a device that mimics the taste and “mouthfeel” of food.
Already, virtual reality devices have been built that try to simulate experiences for four of our five senses - […]
A new collagen-based sealant that can be poured or injected into wounds has sped healing in rats by up to 50%.
Douglas Miller, a research scientist with Texas A&M University, and colleagues found a significant difference in laboratory rats treated with the collagen material compared to untreated rats.
Wounds of treated rats healed in three days compared […]
US firm Space Adventures is potentially interested in buying a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to make tourist flights to the International Space Station (ISS), ITAR-TASS quoted the company’s chief as saying.
The Arlington, Virgina-based firm, which brokered the first two tourist space flights in 2001 and 2002, has signed a contract with the Russian space agency Rosaviakosmos […]
Microsoft might be on the verge of its best office invention yet: a self-charging robot slave that goes to meetings in your place.
Imagine the hooky-playing possibilities that Robie the Robot could create. You can control the robot from a personal computer, using its two-way audio and video technology to participate by proxy. You also could […]
It’s hard to find a more loyal customer for U.S. satellites than Telesat Canada. In the past 30 years, this unit of BCE Inc. has bought 14 birds, all from south of the border. But in March the Ottawa company announced it was buying a spacecraft from France’s Astrium. After gaining experience with the new […]
A burst of brain activity recorded by scientists could offer clues to a baby’s level of understanding of the world around it.
The researchers involved, from Birkbeck College, and University College London, believe their finding could begin to settle a controversial argument on baby brain development.
When an object is shown to six-month-old babies, then hidden, they […]