Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: Racing drones using your mind, an autonomous, voice controlled electric car, a new polymer that heals and twitches like muscle, getting a step closer to an everlasting battery, and a universal cure for allergies. University of Florida Holds World’s First Mind Controlled Drone Race Drone races are nothing new. But while they s

This week: A look at Amazon’s drone delivery service, a new player in space exploration, a stem cell hub in Canada, an injectable foam for regrowing bone, and a new way to treat diabetes. Delivery Drones: The Latest on what Amazon Prime Air Can Do As the world awaits the implementation of various drone delivery services planned by major retailers, Amazon reveals what consumers can expect from their Amazon Prime Air. “So Prime Air is a future delivery service that will get pac

This week: Turning water into fuel, a drone that carries people, a single blood test that could detect all cancers, getting back to the moon, and finding new worlds and new life. “Nano-Reactor” for the Production of Hydrogen Biofuel Scientists at Indiana University have created a highly efficient biomaterial that catalyzes the formation of hydrogen — one half of the “holy grail” of splitting H2O to make hydrogen and oxygen for fueling cheap and efficient cars that run on wate

This week: Helping the blind to see with “Smart Glasses”, 3D printing an entire home in under 24 hours, disease fighting GMO tomatoes, a drone that can navigate an obstacle course at high speeds, and a town that’s averaged an earthquake an hour for two weeks. Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound To Help The Blind Blind people have long relied on sound as a substitution for sight, and some even use echolocation to navigate around objects. But it turns out that sound can be

This week: A vaccine for Ebola, Facebook enters the drone game, the President reveals his clean energy plan, researchers help paralyzed patients move their limbs without surgery, and America destroys its first friendly hitchhiking robot. Ebola Vaccine Successfully Tested A vaccine for Ebola produced in just one year instead of the usual decade provides 100-per-cent protection against the disease. Preparations are already under way to make it available to healthcare workers an

THAT drone buzzing round your head might be smarter than you think. Small drones with neural hardware resembling brains will soon share airspace with other aircraft, seeing and avoiding potential hazards autonomously. The ability will help drones take on a host of new roles. READ MORE The peak of the first good meteor shower of the year will begin the night of April 22 and continue through the dark morning hours of the 23rd. The waxing crescent moon sets around midnight local