Technology

Is That A Real Patient Or A Junkie? Now There's An App For That

A middle aged, male, investment banker arrives at the emergency department with complaints of nausea, vomiting, anxiety and tremor. At business lunches and then at home every evening, he was drinking too much so, worried about his health, he decided to qu ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2014 - 3:44pm

Raloxifene: X-Ray Scattering Reveals A New Mode Of Action For Osteoporosis Drug

Raloxifene is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatment for decreasing fracture risk in osteoporosis and it is effective at reducing fracture risk, but only partially by suppressing bone loss. With the use of wide- and small-angle x-ray ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2014 - 3:31am

Your Insurer Could Soon Know A Lot More Than How Fast You Drive

Image credit:  Peter Blanchard via flickr | http://bit.ly/1q1sNlt. Rights information: http://bit.ly/c34Awz By:  Benjamin Plackett,   Inside Science (Inside Science)-- It may be unintentional, but it’s possible that your car insurer may know a lot more ab ...

Article - Inside Science - Sep 1 2014 - 9:53am

Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley

One evening, during the drearily sodden summer of 1816, Lord Byron and his friends read  Fantasmagoriana, a French translation of a German book of ghost stories (they were intellectuals after all) in his Villa Diodati in Switzerland (they were rich intell ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Aug 31 2014 - 8:27am

Tiny Implanted Sensor And Your Smartphone Could Help Prevent Blindness

Checking for glaucoma. Image credit: communityeyehealth,  CC BY-NC By David Crabb, City University London Scientists have proposed a way to monitor glaucoma using a tiny device implanted in the eye. Readings from the device could be monitored by a smartph ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 1 2014 - 9:17am

New Cancer-Hunting 'Nano-Robots' To Seek And Destroy Tumors

Nano-robots have cancer in their sights. Credit: StephenMitchell/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Dr. Jason Liu, Monash University It sounds like a scene from a science fiction novel – an army of tiny weaponized robots traveling around a human body, hunting down ma ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 1 2014 - 1:00pm

Battery-Less Pacemaker Works Like An Automatic Wristwatch- Powered By Heart Motion

A new battery-less cardiac pacemaker is based on the automatic wristwatch concept- it is powered by heart motion. The prototype device  presented at ESC Congress 2014 by Adrian Zurbuchen from Switzerland does not require battery replacement. Zurbuchen is ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2014 - 7:00am

You Are Ready To Eat Insects If You Have These Characteristics

Are you in the target market to eat insects? The easiest uptake will be by a young male who claims to care more about the environment, believes they are progressive and adventurous about food, and already doesn't care about meat.  Matching those crite ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2014 - 9:18am

Off the Road with Polish Rover Team

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Sep 2 2014 - 5:58pm

American Politics: Old Media Losing Role As Gatekeepers To Twitter

The Obama administration opened up a new front in the culture wars by creating a stunning social media campaign to get out the vote, and they have leveraged new media since; only one internal photographer gets to take pictures, for example, and those pict ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2014 - 9:17am