Freeze-dried drug factories could make various medicines, just add water
The contraption looks and sounds like a washing machine: a rumbling box with a circular window near the floor. But if you look inside, you won’t see a whir of clothes; instead you’ll see a ring of...
View ArticleWhy amazing video games could be causing a big problem for America
Danny Izquierdo, a 22-year-old who lives with his parents in Silver Spring, Md., has found little satisfaction in a series of part-time, low-wage jobs he’s held since graduating from high school. But...
View ArticleRobots: Lifesavers or Terminators?
Some experts predict AI becoming a weapon of mass destruction -- and possibly even the cause of WWIII Others say robots can be more ethical than humans (CNN)Machines are rapidly learning to think on...
View ArticleMicrosoft Has a Whole New Kind of Computer Chip
It was December 2012, and Doug Burger was standing in front of Steve Ballmer, trying to predict the future. Ballmer, the big, bald, boisterous CEO of Microsoft, sat in the lecture room on the ground...
View ArticleCHOP, Comcast founders announce $50 million genetics initiative
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on Friday announced that the founding family of Comcast Corp. has given $25 million toward a new $50 million initiative designed to put CHOP at the forefront of...
View ArticleWith robots, is a life without work one we'd want to live?
When Aristotle described “the complete happiness of man”, he thought it would include, among other things, “self-sufficiency, leisureliness and unweariedness”. Unfortunately the philosopher concluded...
View ArticleRobots can successfully imitate human motions in the operating room
by Frontiers in Robotics and AI Health & Medicine News September 26, 2016 By: Marcus Banks The nursing assistant for your next trip to the hospital might be a robot. This is the implication of...
View ArticleWEDI: EHR support for genomic medicine lacking
Print Email Reprints Share Genomic medicine requires high-quality data that can be readily accessed and applied in the patient care setting. Yet, despite improvements to electronic health record...
View ArticleShould DNA Sequencing Be Part of Your Annual Physical?
J. Craig Venter, PhD, led the first privately funded effort to sequence the human genome. He mapped his own genes in 2000, and he did it faster and for less money than the National Institutes of...
View ArticleRoboBusiness
RBR @harvestai brought @GerriWillisFBN flowers for tonight's show! #omgrobots #RoboBusiness pic.twitter.com/PszEPisOQb RBR Almost time for @GerriWillisFBN! The bots are ready, are you? #RoboBusiness...
View ArticleHillary for America
Hillary Clinton is running for president. Watch the video. Share it with your friends. Let’s go. For videos, photos, and updates, there’s no better place to follow Hillary. The first thing her friends...
View ArticleCOCITO WEATHER STATION
Current version of the main boardWe apologize for the long time taken to publish our schematics and code, but we are really busy with exams at schools, and left with less time to test our project. The...
View ArticleMiniaturizing Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrometers
Miniaturization of analytical equipment has escalated dramatically since the first miniature ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectrometers of the early 1990s. The same principles that made this technology...
View ArticlePhotopharmacology and optogenetics: Lighting the way for second messengers
Science News from research organizations Date: Source: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Summary: Scientist have created photosensitive mimics of a class of signaling molecules, thus enabling...
View ArticlePassengers in Uber's self-driving cars waived right to sue for injury or death
Anyone requesting an Uber ride in a 12-sq mile area in the center of Pittsburgh might now be randomly allocated a self-driving Ford Fusion rather than a human-operated vehicle. But passengers riding in...
View ArticleLive Fact Check: Trump And Clinton Debate For The First Time
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton go head-to-head Monday night in the first presidential debate. NPR's politics team, with help from reporters and editors who cover national security, immigration,...
View ArticleTranscript: Here are words Trump just used to talk about 'the cyber'
The following is an unedited transcript of Donald Trump talking about "the cyber" at the first 2016 presidential debate, courtesy of our friends at Vox. (You can read the full transcript here.) Try to...
View ArticleDog microchips: Outdated contact details leave animals unclaimed
More than 4,700 stray dogs in the UK couldn't be reunited with their owners last year due to outdated microchips, animal charity Dogs Trust has said. The charity found 37,283 dogs were left unclaimed...
View ArticleWhy a robot isn’t going to steal your job, no matter what John McDonnell says
We live not so much in the age of the robots as in the age of worrying about the robots. New books and think pieces proliferate about the threat to the world’s workers from the twin forces of...
View ArticleRetrotechtacular: Power Driven Articulated Dummy
If any of you have ever made a piece of clothing, you’ll know some of the challenges involved. Ensuring a decent and comfortable fit for the wearer, because few real people conform exactly to...
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