Monthly Archives: Giugno 2018
A new pressure-sensing implant for the eye could help glaucoma patients monitor their own...
Researchers at Caltech have developed an implantable pressure sensor that can reside in the human eye for years at a time while wirelessly sending data about the eye's health to the patient or medical...
Bisphenol A or phthalates, the latter of which are used to soften plastics, may...
The public debate on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) -- exogenous substances that have the same or similar effects as endogenous hormones -- has been going on for some time.
Chemicals such as bisphenol A or...
New hybrid catalyst capable of splitting water to produce hydrogen
Researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology have reported an inexpensive hybrid catalyst capable of splitting water to produce hydrogen, suitable for large-scale commercialization.
Most systems to split water into...
LTE Network Protocol : Researchers Uncover New Attacks Technique
If your mobile carrier offers LTE, also known as the 4G network, you need to beware as your network communication can be hijacked remotely.
A team of researchers has discovered some critical weaknesses in the...
Researchers have developed synthetic T lymphocytes that are near-perfect facsimiles of human T cells
UCLA researchers have developed synthetic T lymphocytes, or T cells, that are near-perfect facsimiles of human T cells.
The ability to create the artificial cells could be a key step toward more effective drugs to...
Cyanobacteria may hold the key to a future of clean energy
Electricity from germs could be the next big thing, say Israeli researchers
You can generate electricity from oil, you can produce it from natural gas, you can make it from nuclear energy, and you can...
Tokamak Energy : Nuclear Fusion Power Could Be Here by 2030
When Tokamak Energy was established by company founders Dr Mikhail Gryaznevich, Dr Alan Sykes and Dr David Kingham, they embarked on a unique mission: to recreate the process that powers the sun – on...
A fast charging battery for all outside temperatures that rapidly heats up internally prior...
Californians do not purchase electric vehicles because they are cool, they buy EVs because they live in a warm climate.
Conventional lithium-ion batteries cannot be rapidly charged at temperatures below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, but now...
City University of Hong Kong : micro-robots to carry a cluster of cells to...
A team of researchers at the City University of Hong Kong have found a way to use micro-robots to carry a cluster of cells to a target site in live animals.
In their paper published...
Study : early maternal diet affects brain development and adult memory
Poor protein in a mother's diet in early pregnancy, around the time of conception, can have a lasting effect on brain development, according to research recently published by University of Southampton academics.
The project, led...
Humans are the only primates that can flexibly control the pitch of our voices
We humans are the only primates that can flexibly control the pitch of our voices. This melodic control is not just important for our singing abilities:
Fluctuating pitch also conveys critical information during speech—including the...
Injectable electronics offer powerful new tool in understanding how retinal cells work
Charles Lieber and his group are rewriting the rules of how scientists study retinal cells, and they're doing it with a single injection.
For decades, scientists hoping to understand how the retina interprets visual input...
People judge each new instance of a concept in the context of the previous...
Although it's far from perfect by virtually any measure—whether poverty rates, violence, access to education, racism and prejudice or any number of others—the world continues to improve.
Why, then, do polls consistently show that people...
The limits of human existence might not be as limited as we have long...
A person's risk of death slows and even plateaus above age 105, a new study reports, challenging previous research saying there's a cutoff point past which the human life span cannot extend.
Longevity pioneers lucky...
Genes located in a large chromosomal aberration associated with autism interact with each other...
A collaborative team led by Penn State researchers tested the role of these genes individually and in tandem by reducing the amount of the genes expressed in a fruit fly model.
The research, which appears...
