Technology

Safety Concerns Over Essure Hysteroscopic Sterilization Device

Women who undergo implant based female sterilization have a significantly heightened risk of reoperation following complications, suggests a large study published in The BMJ this week. Female sterilization is one of the most common contraception methods w ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2015 - 7:30am

Why Embryos Develop Abnormally- Artificial Intelligence May Figure It Out

X smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, used alcohol like a fish uses water, and lived to a ripe old age. His brother Y did the same thing and succumbed to cancer at age 55. Why do some individuals develop certain diseases or disorders while others do not? A ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2015 - 7:17am

Artificial Foam Heart Created

Researchers have developed a new lightweight and stretchable material with the consistency of memory foam that has potential for use in prosthetic body parts, artificial organs and soft robotics. The foam is unique because it can be formed and has connect ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2015 - 7:30am

Teaching Robots To Fall With Grace And Style

Miss Georgia tripped in the final round of the 2015 Miss America Pageant and actress Jennifer Lawrence stumbled on her way to accept an Academy Award. It has happened to all of us. And it happens to robots as well. Researchers at Georgia Tech have identif ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2015 - 7:06am

First Automated Mass Crowd Count

Computers have scanned aerial photographs and conducted the first automated mass-crowd count in the world, thanks to the work of researchers at the University of Central Florida. Counting large-scale crowds has been a long, tedious process involving peopl ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2015 - 8:00am

Artificial Skin That Can Send Pressure Sensation To Brain Cell

Stanford engineers have created a plastic "skin" that can detect how hard it is being pressed and generate an electric signal to deliver this sensory input directly to a living brain cell. Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanf ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2015 - 7:00am

Side Stream Emissions From Heated Tobacco Product Similar To Secondhand Smoke

A new paper in the Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry states next generation 'heated' tobacco devices- confusing to the public because heating nicotine vapor is the mechanism behind e-cigarette devices- produce side-stream emissions s ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2015 - 7:58am

Glowing Fingerprints Fight Crime

A new crime scene identification technique for fingerprint detection and analysis adds a drop of liquid containing crystals to surfaces, which means investigators using a UV light are able to see invisible fingerprints "glow" in about 30 seconds ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2015 - 2:33pm

Flight- And Dive- Of The RoboBee

In 1939, a Russian engineer proposed a "flying submarine"-- a vehicle that can seamlessly transition from air to water and back again. While it may sound like something out of a James Bond film, engineers have been trying to design functional ae ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2015 - 1:44pm

Genomic Study Sheds Light On Protective Effects Of RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Candidate

An international team have used cutting edge genomic methods to uncover key biological insights that help explain the protective effects of the world's most advanced malaria vaccine candidate, RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S).  RTS,S is the first malaria vaccine c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2015 - 6:10pm