Latest articles by Michelle Bryner
New Fitness Apparel Will Sport Sensors and Microchips
A new breed of fitness apparel equipped with flexible sensors and microchips for measuring heartrate and blood pressure and overall physical health could be less than two years away.
‘Smart’ Eyeglasses Fill You In on What You’re Looking At
New hi-tech glasses that track your gaze and display information about what you’re looking at could make a simple stroll down the street much more interesting.
How to Make the Perfect Snowball
Certain types of snow just don't make good snowballs. Life's Little Mysteries explains which snow is best.
Why Do People Roast Chestnuts at Christmastime?
Roasted chestnuts are a Christmas staple, but how did they become so? Life's Little Mysteries investigates the holiday nut's origins.
Wearable Robots May Help the Paralyzed
researchers used robots to add this missing sensory input, and they’ve found it allows monkeys move a cursor across a screen more quickly and accurately.
Army Tests ‘Smart’ Rifle in Afghanistan
U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan are testing out a “smart” rifle that uses computer-chip-embedded rounds that can detonate behind walls.
Butterfly-Inspired Patch May Alert Soldiers to Brain Injury
A color-changing patch modeled after the iridescent wings of butterflies could give soldiers a heads-up on the severity of injuries sustained on the battlefield.
'Star Wars'-like Holograms Nearly a Reality
A new holographic technology being developed at the University of Arizona could eventually let us interact with lifelike images of friends living across the globe.
New Brain Machine Reads Minds in Modest Breakthrough
A new advance in brain-machine interfaces could enable scientists to one day decode what a person is thinking simply by monitoring brain cell activity.
Robotic Shape-Shifting Gripper Picks Up Anything
A seemingly simple task for humans—picking up objects of various shapes —can be quite complex for robots. A new shape-shifting technology could soon change that.
Lights On! LED Skin Implants Created
A new way to make thin, flexible sheets of light-emitting electronics could lead to better medical implants.
Wind Farms Alter Local Weather
Wind turbines could be responsible for more than churning out electricity. They could be changing local weather.
Web Searches Could Predict Box Office Hits
Search clicks could predict box office hits (or misses), music and video purchases, and other consumer activity, a new study finds.
Fiber Optics Could ‘Humanize’ Future Prosthetic Limbs
Researchers plan to give amputees the ability to move their prosthetic legs, arms and hands in more natural ways with fiber optics.
World's Rainforests Act as Rain-Collecting Umbrellas
Scientists hope to understand the climate change impact.
New E-skin Could Give Robots Human-Like Touch
A new type of artificial skin with a sense of touch that rivals the human variety could lead to next-generation robotic and prosthetic devices.
Remains of Huge, Ancient Coral Reef Discovered
Fossil coral reef is larger than modern, existing reef.
Why Do Some People Have Hair on Their Knuckles?
The hair on our heads keeps us warm and the hair in our noses keeps out dust. But what's up with the hair on our knuckles?
What's the Biggest Animal in the World?
This creature is not only the largest alive today, its the largest to ever exist.
Frog Egg Cells Key Ingredient in Robotic Nose
A chemical detector made from egg cells of the African clawed frog could give robots a new sense of smell.
What Animal Is the Fastest Swimmer?
These streamlined beasts have been clocked at 68 miles per hour, beating out Olympic gold-medalist Michael Phelps
Is It Safe to Cut Off the Mold and Eat the Rest?
There's more to mold than that green, possibly furry patch that's visible on the surface of your bread.
Laser Beams Control Beating Embryo Heart
A pacemaker that uses beams of light to regulate heart rhythms could do away with the electrodes and wires of today’s implantable devices.
