Collaborate Disseminate
Suppose you ran a website releasing many articles per day about various topics, all following a general theme. And suppose that your website allowed for a comments section for discussion on those topics. Unless you are brand new to the Internet, you’ll also imagine that the comments section needs at …read more
In settings such as disaster sites, toxic gas leaks can pose a real risk to rescue teams. With that in mind, Spanish researchers have outfitted a small drone to go into buildings and check for such gases, before anyone enters…
Continue Rea… Continue reading Radio beacon-guided drone has a nose for toxic gases
An impressive new study, led by scientists from the Boston Children’s Hospital, has developed a novel method to tame one of the world’s most potent toxins, tetrodotoxin, commonly found in the pufferfish. The research demonstrates a way to con… Continue reading How deadly pufferfish toxin led to a breakthrough long-lasting local anesthetic
A genetically modified fungus designed to safely reduce malaria-spreading mosquito populations has, for the first time, been successfully tested outside of laboratory conditions in a simulated village environment in Burkina Faso, West Africa…. Continue reading Genetically modified fungus kills malaria-spreading mosquitos in landmark West African trial
“Tune” is an app that uses machine learning to filter what it thinks is “toxic” content, but it’s far from perfect. Continue reading This Chrome Extension Lets You Tune Out Toxic Comments Online
The molar mass of carbon monoxide (CO) is 28.0, and the molar mass of air is 28.8, so CO will rise in an ambient atmosphere. It makes sense to detect it farther from the ground, but getting a tall ladder is not convenient and certainly doesn’t make for fast deployment. What do you do if you don’t care for heights and want to know the CO levels in a gymnasium or a tall foyer? Here to save the day, is the Red Balloon Carbon Monoxide Detector.
Circuit.io generates the diagram and code to operate the CO sensor and turn a …read more
By looking at how a conversation begins on Wikipedia, neural networks are learning to predict how they will end. Continue reading Google and Wikipedia Are Making an AI-Powered Internet Beef Detector
Snowflake, Arizona has become an oasis for the afflicted. Continue reading This Desert Town Is Full of People With a Mysterious Disease
Meet the “little apple of death.” Continue reading Every Part of This Super Deadly Tree Can Kill You