Science Profiles

Imagine that you could just point your iPhone’s camera at your baby and it would immediately tell you his vital signs: heartbeat and so on. Or that you could fire … Read More

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 06/04/2012 04:31 PM EDT on LiveScience A flame may seem like a simple thing, but explaining why it exists can be tricky. Ben … Read More

Ever wonder how we possibly know how far away stars and galaxies are from the earth? Obviously it involves telescopes and measurements, right? But beyond that, how does our observed … Read More

FeatheredTar/CC BY 2.0 Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a way to use lasers to remove toner ink from paper so that it can be reused instead of … Read More

Boss of the Year Entry Form Now that we’ve thrown ’em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in … Read More

Although no one will live there, the replica city will be modeled after a typical American town of 35,000 people, complete with highways, houses and commercial buildings, old and new. … Read More

Researchers at Tufts University have made the world’s smallest electric motor from a single molecule that measures a mere 1 nanometer across. The team, led by Professor Charles H. Sykes, … Read More

I wonder how many of those researchers cackled maniacally when they were able to reproduce these dark? “Now, Berlin, I shall have my revenge!! MWAHAHAHAHA!” ‘Course, they’d need to have … Read More

Researchers at Cornell University have made an astounding leap forward in cloaking technology. While other teams have been working on what have been traditionally seen as “invisibility cloaks” – using … Read More

Since the early days in the 1940s, computers have routinely been described as “brains” — giant brains or mathematical brains or electronic brains. Scientists and engineers often cringed at the … Read More