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Could cheerleading be the most progressive sport in terms of gender roles? New research from the University of East Anglia indicates that the traditionally female-centered activity can help participants of both sexes challenge stereotypes about girls in sports. The study, which was published in the journal Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, tracked the growing popularity of cheerleading in the U.K. and focused on the members of four cheerleading teams. “The participants... Читать дальше...

Most consider them pesky critters, but Dr. Alper Bozkurt of North Carolina State University thinks that cockroaches have the potential to save human lives. By hacking their antennae and transforming them into remote-controlled creatures, he believes we can use the cyber roaches as a mobile search and rescue team to help find survivors during natural disasters.

Brazilian scientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis is leading the frontier on mind-controlled exoskeletons that can translate thoughts into physical movement. Go inside his lab and find out how he’s helping paraplegics control aid-enabling devices just by thinking.

Imagine robotic fingers that can feel vibrations, textures, and temperatures. For those with prosthetic hands, it’s no longer a dream, it’s reality. Find out how one company is disrupting the prosthetic hand field by mimicking the sensation a hand feels with synthetic fingernails and fingerprints.

OpenBCI is an open-source hardware that allows a D.I.Y. community of artists, designers, and engineers to innovate, while serving as a tool for research and innovation. From using brain activity to control a toy spider to engaging a group in collective mind control, the open-source brain computer interface aims to change the way people interact with machines.

Ekso Bionics has a simple premise: create robotics that help people. And the company is doing just that with its wearable exoskeleton. Using a combination of weight-activated sensors and battery-powered motors, the bionic suit is helping wheelchair-bound users learn how to walk again.

MIT Media Lab's Hugh Herr explains how he looks to nature when developing new bionic appendages. The amputee and avid rock climber discusses how his biomechatronics division is pioneering the technologies that aim to augment human physical capabilities.

Most consider them pesky critters, but Dr. Alper Bozkurt of North Carolina State University thinks that cockroaches have the potential to save human lives. By hacking their antennae and transforming them into remote-controlled creatures, he believes we can use the cyber roaches as a mobile search and rescue team to help find survivors during natural disasters.

Brazilian scientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis is leading the frontier on mind-controlled exoskeletons that can translate thoughts into physical movement. Go inside his lab and find out how he’s helping paraplegics control aid-enabling devices just by thinking.

Imagine robotic fingers that can feel vibrations, textures, and temperatures. For those with prosthetic hands, it’s no longer a dream, it’s reality. Find out how one company is disrupting the prosthetic hand field by mimicking the sensation a hand feels with synthetic fingernails and fingerprints.

OpenBCI is an open-source hardware that allows a D.I.Y. community of artists, designers, and engineers to innovate, while serving as a tool for research and innovation. From using brain activity to control a toy spider to engaging a group in collective mind control, the open-source brain computer interface aims to change the way people interact with machines.

Ekso Bionics has a simple premise: create robotics that help people. And the company is doing just that with its wearable exoskeleton. Using a combination of weight-activated sensors and battery-powered motors, the bionic suit is helping wheelchair-bound users learn how to walk again.

MIT Media Lab's Hugh Herr explains how he looks to nature when developing new bionic appendages. The amputee and avid rock climber discusses how his biomechatronics division is pioneering the technologies that aim to augment human physical capabilities.

Congress hasn't authorized President Obama's new war in Syria. The executive branch claims Congress in 2001 already approved it. Gene Healy discusses Obama's new war.

Michael Berry explains the four levels of understanding light

Let the little ones count down to Christmas with a daily tasty treat

Whether it’s a high tech suitcase, or a new neck pillow, it’s nice to know that someone out there is focused on making travel more enjoyable.  The following travel accessories might look a bit odd — and they certainly aren’t the most stylish — but these clever inventions all provide solutions for universal travel problems.  Some of them might even leave you wondering, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Dresstogo If you hate carrying bags, maybe you should consider a piece of clothing from Jacktogo. Sure... Читать дальше...

Photo by Imagestate Media Partners Limited - Impact Photos / Alamy Stock Photo. Design by Lauren DeLuca for Yahoo Travel. By Emily Mathieson Think you know London? Take a tour of these hidden streets for top-notch British-made menswear, a board game café, and a canal-side pub.

‪There is little disagreement among Middle East analysts that had it not been for Hezbollah's intervention in Syria in 2012, Bashar al-Assad would have been toppled, the ISIS phenomenon in its current

<p>KUALA LUMPUR: It’s confirmed: Tony Pua will not be taking part in the much-anticipated debate with 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chief Arul Kanda.</p> © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd

There is almost nothing more terrifying yet magical then being out in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island, with 18-foot-wide, alien-looking beings swimming backwards loops just millimeters from your face. One of the most fascinating things to experience in Hawaii is to take a night swim with giant Manta rays. Although fierce looking — with triangular fins, horn-shaped cephalic fins, gaping maws, and long, sharp tails — they are not to be confused with some of their fiercer cousins... Читать дальше...

By viewing the sun in extreme ultraviolet light, the Solar Dynamics Observatory captures the star's invisible explosions.

Davenport will have a new mayor.

<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Internationalisation holds the key towards greater resilience for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), and will open more opportunities for resources such as investment, innovation and diversification, says Deputy Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zahid Hamidi.</p> © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd

TAIPEI CITY — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today announced that broadcast rights have been awarded in territories across the world for the first-ever WBSC Premier12™ global baseball championship, which will be staged from 8-21 November in Japan and Taiwan and will feature the National Teams of the Top 12 countries in the world. […]