The Lead
Streaming release of 'Interview' test for industry
December 26, 2014 | by Mae Anderson, AP Technology Writer - Associated Press | News | Comments
Crafting ultrathin color coatings
December 26, 2014 4:15 pm | by Caroline Perry, Harvard University | News | Comments
In a sub-basement deep below the Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering at Harvard...
Biomedical team creates ‘nerve on a chip’
December 26, 2014 4:04 pm | by Tulane University | News | Comments
Michael J. Moore and J. Lowry Curley first met in the laboratory as professor and student. Now...
Taking the grunt work out of Web development
December 26, 2014 3:58 pm | by MIT | News | Comments
A Web page today is the result of a number of interacting components — like cascading style...
Grant Supports Use of Data Science to Optimize HIV Care
December 30, 2014 9:30 am | by Brown University | News | CommentsHIV can be treated, but not every infection responds the same way. Treatment requires monitoring and testing, a practice that can become expensive for health care systems in the developing world.
UNC Project-China Uses Crowdsourcing to Promote HIV Testing
December 30, 2014 9:25 am | by UNC Health Care | News | CommentsThe project, “Testing Saves Lives,” asked community organizations that provide HIV testing services across China to submit videos on the importance of getting tested. The videos were judged based on whether they generated interest about HIV testing, proposed ways to reach untested individuals and engaged the community.
Foldscope Beta Testers Share the Wonders of the Microcosmos
December 30, 2014 9:21 am | by Stanford Medicine | News | CommentsThe holidays came early for citizen-scientists who received the first batch of Foldscope build-your-own paper microscope kits from Stanford’s Prakash Lab over the last several months. These beta testers have begun sharing a variety of fascinating images, videos, tips and ideas on the Foldscope Explore website.
Using Light to Produce Natural Sleep Patterns
December 30, 2014 9:13 am | by MIT | News | CommentsGetting enough of the right kind of sleep is crucial for keeping both body and mind healthy. Now a team of researchers at MIT has moved a step closer to being able to produce natural sleep patterns.
How 'The Interview's' VOD Grosses Could Change the Game
December 30, 2014 9:05 am | by Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer - Associated Press | News | CommentsSony appears to have a win-win with "The Interview." Not only did the studio score a moral victory by releasing the film in the face of hacker threats, the movie made at least $15 million from more than 2 million digital rentals and purchases in its first four days.
HPLC Columns
December 29, 2014 8:10 am | Product Releases | CommentsThe CAPCELL PAK from JM Science is a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) column integrating the excellent separation performance of silica-based, polymer-coated packing material. CAPCELL PAK essentially provides columns of reversed phase partition mode, normal phase partition mode, and ion exchange mode.
New Non-invasive method can detect Alzheimer's disease early
December 26, 2014 4:20 pm | by Megan Fellman, McCormick Northwestern Engineering | News | CommentsNo methods currently exist for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, which affects one out of nine people over the age of 65. Now, an interdisciplinary team of Northwestern University scientists and engineers has developed a noninvasive MRI approach that can detect the disease in a living animal. And it can do so at the earliest stages of the disease, well before typical Alzheimer’s symptoms appear.
In the face of stress, flies unite
December 26, 2014 4:10 pm | by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | News | CommentsFruit flies respond more effectively to danger when in a group. A research team from EPFL and UNIL discovered this behavior as well as the neural circuits which relay this information, opening a new field of research. An article on the findings is being published today in Nature.
Safer Solvent
December 23, 2014 11:23 am | Product Releases | CommentsNecotek Solutions has developed Necosolv XB as a safer, more environmentally friendly alternative to xylene. This solvent is stronger than xylene and is also non-flammable/non-combustible. Necosolv is a non-HAP (not a hazardous air pollutant), has low toxicity and has low or no global warming potential or ozone depletion potential.
California puzzles over safety of driverless cars
December 23, 2014 11:15 am | by Justin Pritchard - Associated Press | News | CommentsCalifornia's Department of Motor Vehicles will miss a year-end deadline to adopt new rules for cars of the future because regulators first have to figure out how they'll know whether "driverless" vehicles are safe.
E-readers foil good night’s sleep
December 23, 2014 11:12 am | News | CommentsUse of a light-emitting electronic book (LE-eBook) in the hours before bedtime can adversely impact overall health, alertness and the circadian clock, which synchronizes the daily rhythm of sleep to external environmental time cues, according to Harvard Medical School researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Airplanes go hybrid-electric
December 23, 2014 11:08 am | News | CommentsResearchers from the University of Cambridge, in association with Boeing, have successfully tested the first aircraft to be powered by a parallel hybrid-electric propulsion system.
A look at North Korea's limited internet capabilities
December 23, 2014 11:07 am | by Tong-Hyun Kim and Youkyung Lee - Associated Press | News | CommentsAn hours-long Internet outage Tuesday in one of the world's least-wired countries was probably more inconvenient to foreigners than to North Korean residents, most of whom have never gone online. Even for wired Koreans south of the heavily armed border separating the rivals, the temporary outage made little difference - southerners are banned by law from accessing North Korean websites.
Computer scientists extend web browsers to make the internet safer
December 23, 2014 11:01 am | News | CommentsStanford computer scientists have extended two popular web browsers to make surfing safer while also empowering web developers to deliver creative new services.
Trapping light with a twister
December 23, 2014 10:55 am | News | CommentsResearchers at MIT who succeeded last year in creating a material that could trap light and stop it in its tracks have now developed a more fundamental understanding of the process.
