Monthly Archives: Ottobre 2017
Swiss researchers have come up with a fully edible soft pneumatic actuator
Edible what? Swiss researchers from Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have come up with a fully edible soft pneumatic actuator. So what is the takeaway?
Factory workers using assembly tools and then eating...
World’s honey now contains bee-harming pesticides
Neonicotinoid pesticides are turning up in honey on every continent with honeybees.
Concern about their impacts has been increasing as evidence for negative effects on bee health and persistence has accumulated.
Mitchell et al. looked at the prevalence...
New horizons in the printing of multi-functional 3D structures
Jennifer A. Lewis, a Core Faculty member of the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been...
Nerve Study Shows How Cells Adapt to Help Repair Damage
Genetic processes that allow cells to transform so they can mend damaged nerves have been identified by scientists.
Their insights on tissue repair could advance the search for drug therapies to improve regeneration after injury,...
Breast cancer linked to bacterial imbalances
In a newly published study, Cleveland Clinic researchers have uncovered differences in the bacterial composition of breast tissue of healthy women vs. women with breast cancer.
The research team has discovered for the first time...
ISIS in the United States of America
The Islamic State has recruited thousands of supporters in the United States, far more than previously thought, according to a scathing new report, raising the likelihood that supporters of the terrorist army could be...
Apple patches bug that showed device password rather than hint
If you have updated your MacOS from the older version to MacOS High Sierra make sure you also apply the new security patch released by Apple to protect your device from third-party intrusion.
As you already know,...
Watch Stranger Saying Hola Senorita After Hacking Woman Security Cam
Internet Of Things (IoT) Devices Or Call Them The Internet Of Shit Devices.
Rilana Hamer from Netherland bought a security camera from a local store Action so she could keep an eye on her dog while she was...
Too much sugar ? Even healthy people are at risk of developing heart disease
Healthy people who consume high levels of sugar are at an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
A ground-breaking study from the University of Surrey found that a subject group of otherwise healthy men had...
Researchers Studying Drug’s Potential to Prevent Alzheimer’s
Researchers have known for decades that the hallmark plaques and tangles in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s develop long before people experience memory loss. Ai-Ling Lin, an assistant professor at Sanders-Brown, hopes to demonstrate...
Squirtable elastic surgical glue seals wounds in 60 seconds
A highly elastic and adhesive surgical glue that quickly seals wounds without the need for common staples or sutures could transform how surgeries are performed.
Biomedical engineers from the University of Sydney and the United...
Pakistani Teen Shocks Scientist By Explaining Electric Honeycomb Phenomena
Pakistani Teenager Explains Yet Ill-Understood Rose Window Phenomenon.
The Rose Window is an electric honeycomb structure that was so far ill-understood, but a Pakistani teenager has managed to capture its formation.
In a nutshell, the structure...
Report Claims Russia Stole NSA Tools Using Kaspersky Software
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Russian government-sponsored hackers have managed to steal extremely sensitive information about classified spying tools used by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA).
The information was hacked after...
The High Price of the Nocebo Effect
People receiving an inert treatment believed they experienced more severe adverse side effects when the dummy drug was labeled as expensive, scientists report.
The researchers say brain regions responsible for higher-order cognition can influence primal...
Sensory Loss Can Be a Warning Sign of Poor Health Outcomes, Including Death
A long-term study spanning five years and including more than 3,000 nationally-representative older US adults has found that a natural decline of the five classical senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch) can predict...
