Soft robots utilize humidity gradient levels to generate signals
A team of researchers at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, has developed a type of soft robot that can...
Thousands of Mobile Apps Expose Their Unprotected Firebase Hosted Databases
Mobile security researchers have discovered unprotected Firebase databases of thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications that are exposing over 100 million data records,...
Popular Flight Tracker Flightradar24 Suffers Data Breach
One of the world's most popular flight tracking services Flightradar24, which shows real-time aircraft flight information on a map, has suffered a massive data breach...
Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking & sharing GBs of data with 3rd parties
The electric car manufacturing giant, Tesla, has filed a lawsuit against a former employee Martin Tripp (“Tripp”) accusing him of hacking into the company’s servers,...
New technology to protects divers in frigid water
When Navy SEALs carry out dives in Arctic waters, or when rescue teams are diving under ice-covered rivers or ponds, the survival time even...
Artificial intelligence algorithm can predict debate winner
Ideally, debates are like fuel for the engine of democracy. But in their current form on social media, are they really getting us anywhere?
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Smart grid of the future : Sodium- and potassium-based batteries
From electric cars that travel hundreds of miles on a single charge to chainsaws as mighty as gas-powered versions, new products hit the market...
A new computer chip helps miniature drones navigate in flight
Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design even...
Triple negative breast cancer : computational geeks may have uncovered a therapy
It's called the 'kiss of death'. Triple negative breast cancer has no targeted drug therapy and, as such, the only hope for these patients...
Scientists examine how high altitude and the associated limited available energy affects the growth...
High altitude is a particularly challenging environment—the terrain is physically challenging and the land has a relatively poor crop yield, so food can be...
Long-term therapy with estrogen and bazedoxifene alters the microbial composition and activity in the...
According to the study, led by University of Illinois food science and human nutrition professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, the enzyme B-glucuronidase (GUS) plays a pivotal...
Around the world, people have surprisingly modest notions of the ideal life
It seems reasonable that people would want to maximize various aspects of life if they were given the opportunity to do so, whether it's...
A new study reports being married may be good for your health
Marriage may protect against the development of heart disease/stroke as well as influencing who is more likely to die of it, suggests a pooled...
Smart stent detects narrowing of arteries
For every three individuals who have had a stent implanted to keep clogged arteries open and prevent a heart attack, at least one will...
Country folk are being hit harder by the U.S. obesity epidemic than city dwellers
Nearly 40 percent of rural American men and almost half of rural women are now statistically obese, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
