Tufts University: School Bans Sex If Your Roommate is in the Dorm

For many, it's a college rite of passage: plugging your ears or crawling out of the room as your dormmate hooks up with someone in the bed next to you. Well, students at Tuft University won't have to worry about that anymore. The university has said issued a rule that outlaws...

Power-generating shock absorbers

This is brilliant!  It is almost free energy that we can tap without any major modifications.  Add in improved thin film solar panels and we could eventually end up with electric cars that use very little external energy!  " Shock absorbers tapped to...

Antibiotics: Is a Strong Offense the Best Defense? (Part 2 of 3) MWV22

On September 18, 2008 at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C., Dr. Stuart Levy, professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dr. Linda Tollefson, Assistant...

Soft, squishy, octopus like robots can change shape, size

Researchers are developing organic robots that will mimic the way octupuses move and use their bodies. They believe that within two years these organic machines will change robotics forever. This approach using...

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