TECH & INNOVATION

Crop Breeding Speed Heightened To Feed The Future

TECH & INNOVATION 07.18.2019 08:53 AM

Genetic improvements in plants have always been controversial, but scientists remain stern that it is the only way to feed the future generations to come.

Mars Astronauts May Soon Have Access to 3D Printed Skin and Bones

07.17.2019 09:28 AM

Mars explorers could turn to 3D printers to treat burns and broken bones. What could be more frightening than suffering a serious injury, such as a severe burn or broken bone while in outer space, hundreds of thousands of miles away from any hospital? For most astronauts, probably not very much, but it is a reality that they must plan for.

Desalination Industry Booming As World Loses More Freshwater Resource

07.17.2019 08:36 AM

The industry of desalination of water is at its peak as the world continue to lose more of its freshwater resources.

PhD Student at MIT Hopes to Revolutionize Insulin Administration

07.16.2019 09:11 AM

One in 11 people have diabetes, and so the potential reach of Volpatti’s research is massive. A student who is currently attaining her Ph. D. in chemical engineering, Lisa Volpatti is researching avenues for an automatic, self-administering insulin treatment that individuals with diabetes could take once each day.

Study Identified a Great Way to Know How Much Water Snowpacks Hold

07.16.2019 08:59 AM

With the use of a database of snow pillow measurements, the team was able to validate the model, a snow pillow measures snow-water equivalents through the pressure they exerted by the snow on top of it, and also as a pair of large independent data sets, one from western North America, the other from the northeastern United States

This App Listens In And Fills Out Paperwork So Doctors Can Focus On Patients

07.15.2019 10:46 AM

The Saykara app takes a conversation between patient and doctor and standardizes it for electronic healthcare records

The First Genetic Evidence that Insects Experience Chronic Pain Revealed

07.13.2019 06:42 AM

The new research provides the first genetic evidence of what causes chronic pain in Drosophila, fruit flies, and there is good evidence that the same changes also drive chronic pain in humans

Things We Know About The Upcoming 'Stranger Things' Mobile Game

07.12.2019 11:49 AM

The game based on the hit TV is in the works Big news for fans of Stranger Things, a new Stranger Things mobile game is in development from Finnish studio Next Games, and it looks like it's going to cater to the Pokemon Go fans in the crowd too.

Android Warning: Thousands Of Dangerous Copycat Apps On Google Play, Study Finds

07.12.2019 11:34 AM

The research has unearthed thousands of dangerous apps hiding in plain sight in the online store The research done by the University of Sydney and CSIRO's Data61 has shown thousands of dangerous applications hiding in plain sight in the online store, tricking users by copying popular alternatives.

Facebook set to clamp down on content with misleading or sensational health claims

07.12.2019 10:37 AM

Facebook said on Tuesday that it was taking steps to reduce promotion of products based on misleading health-related claims.

XPRIZE Competition May Help Map the Ocean Floor in Its Entirety

07.12.2019 10:28 AM

XPRIZE also announced a collaborative project to compile all data into a freely-available World Ocean Map.

De-Extinction is On the Horizon Thanks to CRISPR

07.12.2019 09:49 AM

The CRISPR revolution is the whole reason why we've been having these conversations about de-extinction.

Researchers Create New AI Tool for Detecting Unfair Discrimination

07.11.2019 11:06 AM

The researchers created an AI tool for detecting discrimination concerning a protected attribute such as gender or race by human decision makers or AI systems that are based on the concept of causality in which one thing, a cause, causes another thing, an effect

Plastic Bottles To Rebuild Roads: Welcome To The Future

07.11.2019 10:33 AM

Could turning plastic bottles into roads be the future that will help save the environment? There is a strong call to reduce and hopefully eliminate single-use plastics.

NASA’s Fuel-less Space Engine Has Been Tested

07.10.2019 09:00 AM

EmDrive, the physics-defying contraption ostensibly produces thrust, no fuel required. Spaceflight is hard. Blasting heavy cargo, spacecraft, and maybe people to respectable speeds over interplanetary distances requires an amount of propellant too massive for current rockets to haul into the void.