Monthly Archives: Novembre 2017
Maturity Molecule Helps Adolescent Brain Grow Up
When it comes to raising teenagers, parents have an ally — laminin alpha 5, a molecule crucial to the maturing of the adolescent brain...
D-Link MEA Site Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script
Last month the popular torrent website The Pirate Bay caused some uproar by adding a Javascript-based cryptocurrency miner to its site with no opt-out option, utilizing...
UT researchers developed a new tin-aluminum anode dubbed the Interdigitated Eutectic Alloy (IdEA) anode
The batteries we use every day may soon become cheaper, smaller and lighter. Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of...
Next Mars Rover Will Have 23 Eyes
When NASA's Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras: two on a mast that popped up from the lander, and three...
Bones affect your appetite and metabolism
Your skeleton is much more than the structure supporting your muscles and other tissues. It produces hormones, too.
And Mathieu Ferron knows a lot about...
Butterfly iQ : portable ultrasound machine – smartphone-based
A surgeon diagnosed his own cancer with the help of a phone.
That is the attention-grabbing line that has turned people's attention to a new...
The world’s shortest laser pulse: Seeing electron movement during chemical reactions
In order to fully understand the dynamics during a chemical reaction, scientists must be able to study all movements of atoms and molecules on...
How a $10 microchip turns 2-D ultrasound machines into 3-D imaging devices
Technology that keeps track of how your smartphone is oriented can now give $50,000 ultrasound machines many of the 3-D imaging abilities of their...
Eyes : automatic visual reflexes that go on without awareness
The eyes are for seeing, but they have other important biological functions, including automatic visual reflexes that go on without awareness.
The reflexive system of...
Humans don’t use as much brainpower
For years, scientists assumed that humans devote a larger share of their daily calories to their brains than other animals. Although the human brain...
