Technology

A native of the desert habitat in Southern California, the diabetic Ironclad beetle has an exoskeleton that is one of the most difficult, most crush-resistant structures known to exist in the animal kingdom. UCI researchers created a project to study the components and architectures responsible for making animals so indestructible. …

Summer! It’s a great time but a warm time! Indeed, most people will argue that you cannot survive the summer without some good air conditioning. But what if your buildings or cars never get hot? Engineers at Purdue University have created a white paint that can keep all surfaces cool …

If humans want to travel about the solar system, they will need to be able to communicate. As we await crew missions to the moon and Mars, communications technology will pose a challenge we have not faced since the 1970s. We communicate with robotic missions via radio signals. To do …

Samsung Electronics has announced the death of its chairman Lee Kun-hee. The company says his son died next to him on October 25, along with a family including Vice-Chairman Lee Ja-yonggang. He was 78 years old. The cause of death was not given, but Lee was incapacitated for several years …

Nokia says it has been selected for the first construction by the American space agency NASA Mobile Phone network on the moon. The Finnish technology company recently announced that its Nokia Bell Labs division will build a lunar communications system. It said NASA would put the devices on a lunar …