by Leroy Hurt | Dec 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via CSMonitor.com: The Army has, for the first time, used a truck-mounted laser weapon to stop a barrage of 90 incoming mortars and several drones in mid-flight. Defense officials at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command hailed it as a “big step” in the...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via io9: a team of neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Kansas Medical Center have devised a solution that appears to work in rats. It’s an implantable prosthesis called a brain-machine-brain interface that serves as a...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: LinkedIn asked its group of top influencers to pick the “one big idea” that they believe will shape 2014. Before stepping back from work to celebrate the holidays, here are a few of the most fascinating ideas, from how investing...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: The female contribution to the advancement of science and medicine is often overlooked, but the Grolier Club celebrated the role of women in science with its exhibit “Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine: Four Centuries of...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: It shouldn’t be terribly surprising that artists can do amazing stuff with computers nowadays. Monsters destroy cities in the movies and people fly and turn invisible, for example. And a new school of 3D artists has taken to creating some...
