Technology

Artificial Blood For Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes have been called the deadliest animal on the planet due to the diseases they spread. Why feed them? By using science, giving them an artificial buffet may lead to fewer of them, says Stephen Dobson, a University of Kentucky professor of medical ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2015 - 7:00am

Flying Feminism: Drones Drop Abortion Pills On Catholic Poland

A Dutch feminist pro-choice activist organization, Women on Waves, has been using a drone to drop abortion pills across the Polish-German border. The aim of the flight has been to highlight Poland’s restrictive abortion laws – a consistent topic of debate ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 1 2015 - 11:37am

Protein-Based Elastic Gel Heals Wounds

A team of bioengineers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), led by Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, and Nasim Annabi, PhD, of the Biomedical Engineering Division, has developed a new protein-based gel that, when exposed to light, mimics many of the propert ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2015 - 9:54am

New GHOST Technology Leaps Out Of The Screen

Nothing will make you feel like Tony Stark more than being able to change the shape of displays with your hands, pulling objects and data out of the screen and playing with them in mid-air. Right now, that's just in an Avengers movie. Instead, we live ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2015 - 10:30am

Heat For Sore Joints- Now In A Flexible Mesh

If you suffer from chronic muscle pain a doctor will likely recommend for you to apply heat to the injury, but how do you wrap that heat around a joint? A team has come up with therapeutic heat in a light, flexible design.  Other teams have come up with si ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2015 - 11:30am

Genomics- The Biggest Of Big Data

Each cell in the body contains a whole genome, 3 billion of "letters" known as bases, so the data packed into a few DNA molecules could fill an entire hard drive. Instead of having one reference genome for study, more and more people are having ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2015 - 6:56am

How Accurate Are Symptom Checkers?

Hundreds of millions of times every year many of us turn to online symptom checkers to try to self-diagnose our symptoms and to get advice on whether we should seek further medical care or just rest at home until we feel better. But how good is the inform ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2015 - 2:52pm

Stairs: How 3-D Printing Helped Robots Tackle Their Greatest Obstacle

We’ve long attempted to recreate living creatures in robot form. From very early age of robotics, there has been attempts to reproduce systems similar to human arms and hands. This has been extended to flexible and mobile platforms reproducing different a ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 12 2015 - 8:00am

Muon: Electron’s Heavy Cousin Could Help Detect Damaged Pipes

By Charles Choi, Inside Science- Of all the parts of the nation's infrastructure that one might want least to fail, nuclear power plants might rank the highest. ...

Article - Charles Choi - Jul 13 2015 - 11:00am

Ultrasound Accelerates Skin Healing

Healing times for skin ulcers and bedsores can be reduced by a third with the use of low-intensity ultrasound- ultrasound transmits a vibration through the skin and wakes up cells in wounds helping to stimulate and accelerate the healing process.  More th ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2015 - 10:00am