Collaborate Disseminate
Antibiotics are one of the most important medical breakthroughs of all time – but their usefulness is beginning to unravel, with potentially devastating results. In the hunt for new drugs, researchers have now investigated how an antivitamin of Vitamin… Continue reading Antivitamins breakthrough could make for antibiotics alternative
While 3D printing technology does allow for the quicker and cheaper construction of buildings, such structures are typically made of concrete, which isn’t very eco-friendly. Soon, though, it may be possible to print buildings out of local soil.Continue… Continue reading Eco-friendly tech uses local soil to 3D-print structures
A new type of data storage system could be denser, smaller, faster and more energy efficient than silicon chips. The new method involves encoding data in sliding stacks of two-dimensional layers of metals.Continue ReadingCategory: Electronics, ScienceT… Continue reading Shifting stacks of 2D metals could make fast, dense new data storage
I know a thing or two about gout. It’s horrible. If you’re susceptible to it, eating the wrong food can trigger deposits of uric acid salts to crystallize into spiky pain bombs in your joints. Often, this happens in the big toe, but in my case they see… Continue reading New biosensor could give gout patients real-time blood urate readings
Telerobotic systems already allow surgeons in one location to control robotic surgical tools in another, so they can perform operations at a distance. A new proximity-sensing system, however, could make such procedures safer and more precise than ever…. Continue reading Telerobotics tech designed to give surgeons a lighter touch
As if it’s not enough that fresh produce may sometimes be tainted with harmful bacteria, those microbes can get transferred onto other fruits and veggies, contaminating them too. A new coating, however, has been designed to keep the latter from happeni… Continue reading Dual-action coating made to protect produce from cross-contamination
Every time we think we’ve figured out the limits of where life can exist, we discover extremophile organisms thriving under conditions we’d previously ruled out. The latest example comes from studies of rock cores drilled from the floor of the Indian O… Continue reading Extremophile microbes found thriving half a mile beneath the seafloor
If you like spicy foods, then you’re probably aware of the claimed anti-inflammatory qualities of turmeric. Scientists have now developed what they say is a more effective way of biologically delivering turmeric’s active compound, curcumin.
Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle
Tags: University of South Australia, McMaster University, Texas A&M Universty, Nanoparticles, Alzheimer’s Disease
Continue reading Nanotech said to boost the bioavailabilty of curcumin
Cotton is a widely-grown crop and its seeds are full of protein, so you might think they’d be a great source of food. Unfortunately, though, they’re toxic to humans. That said, such is not the case with a newly-developed variety of the plant.Continue R… Continue reading New edible cotton seeds are packed with protein – not poison