Technology

A Pen To See Cancer

Surgeons removing a malignant brain tumor don’t want to leave cancerous material behind, but they also need to protect healthy brain matter and minimize neurological harm. Once the patient’s skull is open, there’s no time to send tissue samples to a pathol ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2016 - 6:23am

Journal Publishing Seralini Paper Claiming GMO Toxicity Disappears Faster Than His Career

How do you know the paper claiming GMO toxicity is in a journal that isn't very reputable? They don't have $9 to renew their domain. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 27 2016 - 3:54pm

Biodegradable Material With Built-In Vitamin A Reduces Scarring

Scarring is a natural part of any healing process but scar formation within blood vessels can be deadly. To prevent scarring and the dangerous damage that follows, researchers writing in ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering discuss development of a ne ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2016 - 9:00am

Obfuscation: How To Hide From Online Surveillance

It’s a common assumption that being online means you’ll have to part ways with your personal data and there’s nothing you can do about it. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2016 - 8:39am

How To Improve Internet Security- 20th Century Radio Technology

Imagine communicating with your bank, the IRS or your doctor by way of an Internet that was actually secure, where if any bad actor were to try to eavesdrop you would know immediately. Such is the promise of secure quantum communication, and has been sinc ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2016 - 12:13pm

TV A Top Source Of Political News For Caucus-Goers- And Everyone Else

Political journalists will file countless reports from Iowa in the final days leading up to the caucuses, much of based on polls. Another poll, this one by the Iowa State University/WHO-HD Iowa Caucus Poll, finds that voters rely on a variety of these rep ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2016 - 8:00am

OFF! Clip-On Device May Protect Against Mosquitoes That Transmit Zika

A product called the OFF! Clip-On repellent device could be an effective tool for preventing bites from the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the primary vector of Zika, chikungunya, dengue, and yellow fever, though DEET, a permethrin or even good old-fashioned DDT ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2016 - 4:51pm

Wiki Woes: Websites For Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Are Inaccurate And Outdated

After evaluating content on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on almost 200 websites, researchers found that the information on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) from these sites was often incomplete, inaccurate and outdated.  ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2016 - 7:00am

The Doctor-Less Hospital Future

Imagine your child requires a life-saving operation. You enter the hospital and are confronted with a stark choice. Do you take the traditional path with human medical staff, including doctors and nurses, where long-term trials have shown a 90% chance tha ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 9 2016 - 7:30am

Artificial Intelligence May Tell Us What's Going To Be Big In Science This Year

Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in being able to understand what the future will look like when it comes to scientific and technological emergences. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2016 - 12:04pm