Science news articles about 'backpacks'

  • MIT creates tiny backpacks for cells

    ... and a graduate student in materials science and engineering. The researchers found that T cells with backpacks were able to perform their normal functions, including migrating across a surface, just ...
  • Technology entrepreneurs head for 'startup camp'

    Backpack-toting dreamers from more than 600 startup firms spent a recent morning at an Internet-age version of summer camp brainstorming about new online waves and how to ride them to success.
  • Cow Backpacks Trap Methane Gas

    (PhysOrg.com) -- In an attempt to understand the extent of cow flatulence on global warming, scientists in Argentina are strapping plastic bags to the backs of cows to capture their emissions.
  • Suspects found asleep on stolen goods

    Police say a trail of pillows and backpacks led to two sleeping men who were arrested after a department store break-in.
  • Cancer warning adds wrinkle to parenting debate

    ... them cell phones at the program's request. But this summer she was dismayed to learn that girls at her 8-year-old daughter's day camp were using cell phones they'd taken along in their backpacks....
  • Back to School Reminder: Kids Should Go for Safety, Not Style

    ... but there is one experience an estimated 90 percent of all students share: wearing a backpack. Researchers from the University of San Diego, California School of Medicine say those students also ...
  • Gizmos to make school life more fun

    From high-tech water warmers to solar-powered backpacks, here are some gizmos that can help make your life in and around the classroom a little more fun.
  • GM crops protect neighbors from pests

    ... said. "Most farmers did not have proper protective clothes while applying insecticides with small backpack sprayers. This may be another reason that many farmers refused to plant cotton before Bt was ...
  • Researchers raise uncomfortable questions by showing how GPS navigation devices can be duped

    ... thing. Handheld GPS receivers are popular for their usefulness in navigating unfamiliar highways or backpacking into wilderness areas. But GPS is also embedded in the world's technological fabric. ...
  • Pilot Stuart Ross develops rocketbelt designed to strap on and fly

    ... spent four years and the best part of £100,000 building a rocketbelt - a Buck Rogers-style flying backpack that can shoot the wearer 1,000 feet into the air at 60mph. With testing of this most sought- ...
  • Astronaut outside space station loses tool bag

    A spacewalking astronaut whose grease gun erupted in a backpack-sized tool bag accidentally let go of the tote outside the international space station Tuesday, and it floated off along with everything ...
  • Ice beetles impacted by climate change

    ... . By the late 1970s, he had exhausted all of the vehicle-accessible options and began backpacking into more remote regions, including Oregon's Wallowa Mountains and the Queen Charlotte Islands. When ...
  • Spacewatch

    ... for the slip that left a tool bag drifting away into space. That bag, about the size of a small backpack, is surprisingly easy to spot providing we have adequate predictions and a well aimed pair of ...
  • Rock Climbing With Better Safety: Analysis Of Climbing Karabiners

    ... as little extra weight as necessary, he puts the lightest aluminum karabiners he can find into his backpack, knowing full well that heavier steel hooks would really be safer. The "ideal" climbing ...
  • Songbirds fly 3 times faster than expected

    ... has tracked the migration of songbirds by outfitting them with tiny geolocator backpacks – a world first – revealing that scientists have underestimated their flight performance dramatically. "Never ...

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