Medical News

News The Associated Press spoke with Bill Rouhana, CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul, a company that owns Popcornflix and recently bought a majority stake in Sony's Crackle. (It also owns the schmaltzy namesake books.) Co...

News Trials with people with newly-diagnosed colorectal and non-small cell lung cancer suggest that whole body MRI could reduce the time it takes to diagnose the stage of cancers. The results are from two prospective tri...

News On May 4, a National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)-supported tissue-chip system with direct clinical applications to health conditions here on Earth was launched on the SpaceX CRS 17/Falcon 9 r...

News The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that an antitrust lawsuit brought against Apple by iPhone users accusing the tech giant of unlawfully monopolizing the iPhone app market and inflating prices can proceed. Staff Auth...

News Cox Communications has added Amazon Prime Video to the list of OTT apps integrated on the cable operator's Contour TV platform. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Cable

News A Navy scientist has re-engineered the software that allows long-endurance drones to powerlessly climb into the sky on bubbles of warm air. In a U.S. patent application published on May 2, Aaron Kahn, an... Contribu...

News Nerve cells, or neurons--specifically the "workhorse cells" involved in walking, breathing and chewing--can adjust to changes in the body, but they never stop working unless there is an fatal injury. What exactly si...

News Researchers have recapitulated retinal cells in their lab. This "eye-in-a-dish" model allowed them to look for genetic variants that might contribute to age-related macular degeneration... Contributed Author: Univer...

News Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos said Thursday he's going to send a spaceship to the moon, joining a resurgence of lunar interest half a century after people first set foot there... Contributed Author: Seth Borenstein, AP N...

News Washington State University researchers have developed an environmentally-friendly, plant-based material that for the first time works better than Styrofoam for insulation... Contributed Author: Tina Hilding, Washin...

News For decades, scientists have been able to burn fuels in a flame without creating any soot, and they think they know why. They've crunched the numbers and run experiments in high-tech facilities, but there's only one...

News Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) armed with mounted cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) for data processing can help map the species that live on the ocean floor. To create the last part of that vision... ...

News The morning of Thursday, May 9, Germany's Frankfurt Airport was shut down for almost an hour after a drone sighting, according to digital news publisher The Local. The drone, which The Local reports had a... Staff A...

News Those who have a high tolerance for spicy foods may be able to win their local chili-eating contest, but eating spicy foods wears out our taste buds. Now, WSU has created an electric tongue that does the test-tastin...

News In the ongoing arms race with humans and their antibiotics on one side, and bacteria with their ability to evolve defenses to antibiotics on the other, humans have enlisted a new ally--other bacteria... Contributed ...

News University of Illinois researcher Amy LaViers has introduced a new point of view from which to observe robotic capabilities in her paper, "Counts of Mechanical, External Configurations Compared to Computational... C...

Blog There are many job opportunities available in the quickly growing information and technology fields. However, because they all deal so closely with computers, many people who aren't yet in the field aren't... Contri...

Videos Environmental scientists can tell a lot about the health of rivers, bays, wetlands and other waterways by studying the flow of sediments suspended in the water, and from the mud that forms when these sediments... ...

Product Announcement Once again, Sensirion trailblazes innovation in environmental sensing to create healthier and more productive environments for people. At this year's Sensor+Test 2019 in Nuremberg and SensorsExpo 201...

News MIT researchers have devised a method for assessing how robust machine-learning models known as neural networks are for various tasks, by detecting when the models make mistakes they shouldn't. Convolutional... Cont...

News Scientists must often ask themselves, compared to what? How do the results we generate in the laboratory compare with those obtained by others? How do our theoretical calculations compare with experimental... Contri...

Product Announcement OKW has launched two new adaptors that enable any small plastic enclosure to be mounted on a DIN rail - saving space and speeding up installations. They are suitable for a huge range of electronics a...