IBM's Watson supercomputer is being re-tasked to
help clinicians create personalized treatments for a common form of
brain cancer known as glioblastoma. The project, which is a
collaboration between IBM and the New York Genome Center (NYGC), hopes
to make use of Watson's artificial intelligence to analyze vast
quantities of data in order to suggest a personalized life-saving
treatment based on the patient's individual case. Read More
We've got smart doorbells, smart locks and smart door handles,
so why not a smart doormat? Dr. Andrew Clark has created just such a
device called, surprisingly enough, the SmartMat. Designed to be placed
under a regular doormat, the SmartMat acts as a pressure sensor and
features Wi-Fi connectivity to allow actions to be triggered when
someone steps on it. Read More
Central to the dangers of so-called "date-rape"
drugs is the fact that they are difficult to detect. Indeed, GHB, one of
the most commonly-used of such drugs, is both colorless and odorless. A
team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has
developed a fluorescent sensor which, when mixed with a drink
containing GHB, changes color within 30 seconds, potentially alerting
people soon after their drink has been tampered with. Read More
For over forty years, Earthwatch
has been sending ordinary people to extraordinary places in the company
of top scientists to conduct hands-on research in over 50 expeditions.
On Thursday, the international nonprofit organization announced its most
ambitious and extraordinary public expedition ever aimed at sending
volunteers to Mars in search for water and life. With its US$1.25
million ticket price, it seems too good to be true, and probably is.
Read More
While a mouthful of home-brewed beer delivers a
certain degree of satisfaction for hobbyists and expert craftsmen alike,
seeing the hops, yeast and water come together to create a refreshing
drop can take some serious know-how and even more serious man-hours.
BrewNanny is a device designed to help ease the burden by using built-in
sensors to monitor and offer guidance throughout the brewing process.
Read More
NASA asks public to vote on Z-2 spacesuit design
By David Szondy
March 27, 2014
NASA has gone a touch sartorial as it asks the
public to vote on the design of its new prototype Z-2 spacesuit. Part of
the Advanced Suit development program to come up with a replacement for
the 22-year old suit designs currently used on the International Space
Station, the Z-2 not only includes a number of technical innovations,
but also a design that for the first time has an eye on the aesthetics
of living and working in outer space. Read More
Phosphorus is a mineral that's
widely used in fertilizer, which itself has an unfortunate tendency to
leach out of farmers' fields and into our waterways. Now, researchers
from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research have devised a
method of retrieving some of that phosphorus from the water – thus both
reducing pollution, and providing a source of reclaimed phosphorus. Read More 
London's Science Museum is wildly popular, hosting over 2.9 million visitors a year. It's currently showing 3D: printing the future, an exhibition about 3D printing and how it will impact our lives. Gizmag payed the exhibition a visit. Read More
HTC doesn't beat around the bush. On the same day that it announced its new One (M8),
the phone went up for sale. Not pre-orders, mind you, I mean you could
actually walk into a store and buy the damn thing right after the
announcement. After jetting to NYC and back for HTC's launch event, we
have our review unit in hand and are ready to share some initial
impressions. Read More
As any fan of just about any TV cop show will
tell you, it's possible to determine someone's sex and race based on a
sample of their DNA. In the future, however, such samples may provide
police with even more valuable information ... they might allow
investigators to construct an image of the person's face. Read More
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