Technology
- Biodegradable Material With Built-In Vitamin A Reduces Scarring
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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- Wiki Woes: Websites For Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Are Inaccurate And Outdated
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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found that the information on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) from these sites was often incomplete, inaccurate and outdated.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
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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
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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
- The 10 catastrophic mistakes virtual reality firms are making
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I HAVE A VIRTUAL REALITY machine in my fridge. It’s a banoffee pie, and when I eat two of them in the dark while listening to the Beatles’ White Album, I am far, far away on another planet, no hardware necessary. But the global tech industry d ...
Blog Post - Nury Vittachi - Feb 12 2016 - 9:20pm
- Block Yik Yak? Thought Control At Colleges Should Not Be Done So Casually
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Some colleges have called for the banning of Yik Yak, is a hyperloca social media application in which users centered around a geographic area can post anonymously. They want to ban it because it can be used to do a lot of positive things, but also some n ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2016 - 3:30pm