After a paralyzing accident, one man thought he may never be able to talk again. However, an experimental device called BrainGate2 has given him his “voice” back. The man is able to type on a computer screen by imagining the…
The trachea, or windpipe, is a tube that brings air to and from the lungs. It is a hard organ to transplant because there are many tiny blood vessels. New research helped doctors at The Mount Sinai Hospital do a…
Toronto researchers built a robotic platform that can screen thousands of COVID-19 samples at a time. The machine can detect a positive case 95 percent of the time. Finding positive cases quickly and accurately is important in a pandemic. The…
At age 15, Gitanjali Rao isn’t your typical scientist. The brilliant teen was selected as TIME’s Kid of the Year from more than 5,000 kids, ages 8 to 16. Her inventions can sense lead in water, detect early opioid addiction,…
After two deadly crashes in March 2019, the Boeing’s 737 Max was grounded. But not anymore. American Airlines was the first to fly the plane commercially in almost two years. The first flight was from Miami to New York. The…
Getting around at night just got a lot easier for cyclists in one town in Poland. The town of Lidzbark Warminski in northern Poland unveiled a new glow-in-the-dark bicycle lane this month. During the day, sunlight charges special particles in the asphalt,…
A solar-powered airplane landed in California on Sunday, completing a trip across the Pacific Ocean that began last year. A team of pilots and scientists are attempting to fly the airplane, called Solar Impulse 2, all the way around the world.…
A Japanese magnetic levitation (maglev) train has broken its own world speed record. In a test run near Tokyo's Mount Fuji, the train hit 374 mph (603 km/h). The train's previous speed record was 367 mph (590 km/h). Central Japan Railway, which owns…
It seems that 3D printers can create just about anything these days. And at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, new 3D printers were unveiled that can create food! A company called 3D systems introduced the Chefjet and Chefjet Pro, which can make chocolate…