Star Trek fans have wished for decades that thetricorder, a high-tech handheld scanning device, would make its way into reality. Finally, that nerdy dream has come true in the form of the Scanadu Scout, a small scanner that lets you conduct sophisticated

A scientist in the U.K. is giving a face to a formerly faceless phenomenon.Julian Leff works with schizophrenics who hear voices. He uses custom programmed computer software that helps patients create an avatar based on their what they think the voices in

On-the-spot paper medical sensors are already used for a few applications such as pregnancy tests, but there is so much more that can be done with these low-cost tests. A team of chemists at theUniversity of Texas at Austinhas made significant strides in

We dont know about you, but the thought of teeny-tiny robots swimming around in our insides kind of gives us the creeps. But if those bots were there for good, not mischief-making, that might change things a bit. A team of researchers at the California In