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Misfit Shine – A Sleek, New Activity Tracker
Finding it difficult to stick to that New Year’s resolution to exercise more? Maybe the problem is you’re lack of quantitative feedback on just how well you really are doing. A new activity tracker...
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Scientists Work To Unravel Mystery Behind Woman Who Doesn’t Grow
Twenty year old Brooke Greenberg hasn’t grown since age five. For the last 15 years mystified doctors have been unable to explain the cause for Brooke’s disorder that has kept her aging in check. At...
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Our Polluted Singularity Future? Beijing Smog Hits Record Levels
Industrialization has its price. This past weekend Beijing, the epicenter of one of the world’s fastest growing and largest economies, reached the highest smog levels on record. The World Health...
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Exclusive Interview With Doug Wolens, Director of “The Singularity”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” If you watch Doug Wolens’ latest documentary, “The Singularity,” the quote from Arthur C. Clarke is the first thing you see. It...
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Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour
No longer will they say, “He’s going to end up flipping burgers.” Because now, robots are taking even these ignobly esteemed jobs. Alpha machine from Momentum Machines cooks up a tasty burger with all...
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New Gene Therapy Extends Lives Of Children With Rare Brain Disorder
Chalk up another victory for gene therapy. A recent clinical trial has shown that gene therapy can be used to extend the lives of children with a rare brain disorder that typically proves fatal in the...
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Setback For Student In Fight Against RFID Chips
Andrea Hernandez is a student at John Jay School, a magnet school in Texas whose students were recently required to begin wearing Smart ID badges with radio-frequency identification (RFID) locator...
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Flu Vaccine Produced With Insect Ovaries Approved By FDA – The End To Shortages?
Source: Wikimedia Commons Amid a season in which the flu is spreading at an exceptional rate across the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a vaccine that can get to the people...
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Deaths Due To Cancer Decreased 20 Percent In Last 20 Years
Source: Wikimedia Commons The rate of deaths due to cancer in the United States is dropping. Americans today have a 20 percent less chance of dying from cancer than they did nearly 20 years ago. The...
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Brain Pacemakers Used To Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
Source: Ohio State Medical Center In an effort to alleviate the symptoms of a disease that has stubbornly resisted treatment, scientists are turning to a therapy that may appear more likely to be...
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Turn Your Plastic Recyclables Into 3D Printing Spools With Filabot
Source: Filabot 3D printers are getting cooler every day, but there’s one component integral to 3D printing that normally gets overlooked – that is, until you have to pay for it. As many 3D hobbyists...
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New Studies Show Cells From Fetus End Up In Mothers’ Brains And Hearts
Source: Wikimedia Commons Microchimerism results when cells from two genetically distinct populations appear in the same tissue, organ, or individual, such as occurs during an organ transplant or...
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Roadside Sign-Flippers? Robots Are Taking Their Jobs Too
Source: Stealing Axion via YouTube No job is safe. You know those guys at the side of the road, tossing and flipping signs in the air trying to get you to go into that IHOP or get your car washed? Well...
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The Automation Of Healthcare Continues – Robot System To Sterilize Surgical...
[READY] [READY] Robot To Sterilize Surgical Tools Source: GE Global Research Hospitals are not the cleanest of places. Even in the operating room where the greatest care is taken to create a sterile...
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Recording Your Life, Allowing Others To View It As Virtual Reality World:...
[Source: Alan Kwan via Vimeo] It’s called Bad Trip, and it certainly feels like one. Alan Kwan has been recording every moment of his life since November 2011 and he faces the same problem that other...
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Sea Installer – The Enormous Ocean Wind Turbine Installation Vessel
Source: Siemens AG Technological progress advances our ability to build bigger and badder machines. A recent example is Sea Installer, part of the next generation of powerful wind turbine installation...
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Watson Is Now Commercially Available, Set To Help Doctors Treat Cancer
[Source: ibmbusinessanalytics via YouTube]IBM’s most promising medical student just graduated and is ready to join the workforce and help people – in the fight against cancer, to be specific. IBM has...
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Turtle Receives Prosthetic Flippers, Goes For A Swim
[Source: VIDEOLANDMARKS via YouTube] In 2008, an endangered loggerhead turtle, was rescued by a fisherman in Japan after getting tangled in fishing nets. It looked as though the turtle, the rescuers...
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Willow Garage NOT Shutting Down, Evolves To Go Commercial
[Source: 911industrialave via YouTube]Willow Garage, the robotics startup that brought us PR2 and the Robot Operating System (ROS) open source software library will soon cease to exist – at least as a...
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Study Suggests Folic Acid During Pregnancy Decreases Child’s Chances Of Being...
[Source: Wikipedia]A woman’s diet during pregnancy could determine whether or not her child will have autism, a new study suggests. Women who took supplements of folic acid, a vitamin B variant and...
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