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Submarine Detecting Robot Boat Under Development

by Katie Gatto

DARPA is developing a submarine detecting boat that will be able to run for months at a time without human intervention and help to protect large naval ships from foreign attack using a variety of sensors and a new laser system.The robot, which is still under development, is projected to be hitting the harbor sometime next year.

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Researchers Discover New Target For Cancer Treatment

by T Goodman

Scientists at the Medical College of Georgia have identified a nutrient transporter cell, SLC5A8, that can be suppressed, causing cancer cells to die while not harming healthy cells.

Scientific Fraud More Likely Among Men Than Women In Life Science Fields

by T Goodman

.... Misrepresentations in scientific reporting are serious offences, undermining the most basic principles of science, those that rely on complete objectivity, with no predetermination of result. Scientific fraud is both unethical and, ultimately, costly, most especially where plant, animal, and human life may be endangered by it. So it is important to live science fields, in particular, to understand more about factors contributing to scientific fraud in an attempt to reduce the incidence of it. This study, undertaken by a cross-disciplinary team of life scientists looks at two of these factors: gender and career levels.

Making Touch Screens Out Of Thin Air With Light Touch

by Katie Gatto

Creating a touch screen wherever you have a flat surface has certain perks. Find out how one company is making that dream a reality for consumers and companies. The folks over at the Light Touch company are making this a reality for homes, offices and businesses a reality with their product that allows any flat place to become a touch screen.

Robots and Restaurants and Travel In China

by Katie Gatto

Robot servers may be closer than you think. Oh wait, they're already here. One restaurant in the nation of China is making the dream of a robot run eatery a reality. Just don't think that you are going to cry your way out of the check, after all your server is highly logical and unlikley to be swayed by emotions.

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Social Media Fans Follow Barefoot Bandit To Prison & The Movies

by Ron Callari

Whatever happened to the Colton Harris-Moore, the rebel-without-a-cause (aka the Barefoot Bandit)? Here was a teenager brought up in a turbulent low-income household who went on to earn international notoriety and a huge following in the social media space commencing back in 2010.

Do You Really Need Underarm Deodorant?

by T Goodman

There's a genetic mutation that keeps certain persons from having smelly underarms and sticky ear wax. The question, to a group of scientists from the University of Bristol in Great Britain, was whether persons with no underarm odor used deodorant anyway. The results of their study of 17,000 individuals are published in the advance online edition of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

Driverless Buses Ready To Roll On Shanghai's Streets

by China.new

Be afraid, Ralph Kramdens of the world, be VERY afraid: Shanghai's imminent experiment with driverless, magnetically-guided, electric-powered buses could be the start of a new urban transportation revolution.

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Stealth Wear: The Anti-Drone Hoodie For The Paranoid Fashionista

Stealth Wear Event Poster, Primitive Boutique, West LondonWe

by Laurie Kay Olson

We may be living in a world of high tech espionage, but New York artist Adam Harvey is creating a line of clothing called Stealth Wear that will allow individuals to remain invisible. It is the sort of breakthrough that will have paranoid people around the globe turning in their tin foil hats for fashion-forward hoodies and scarfs. Harvey's earliest creations are on display all this month at Primitive, a trendy West London boutique.

MedXCom Smartphone App Provides Secure Medical Record Access for Doctors, Patients, And Daters

by Cindi Brown

MedXCom is a new smartphone app that is changing the way doctors and patients interact by providing a central place for medical records and a secure way to exchange information, but that's not all. The benefits of this little app extend well beyond the doctor's office and into the singles bar.

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Smartphone Data Usage Trumps Tablets

by Katie Gatto

It looks like data use for smart phone users is on the rise, a change from the past when tablets ruled the data useage landscape. And will the iPhone users finally be dethroned from their data usage dominance by Samsung?

Mouseless Mouse Shown Off at CES

by Katie Gatto

A look at a mouseless mouse that lets your fingers do the browsing.

The 2014 Corvette Stingray Balances Classic Style With Improved Performance

by Cindi Brown

Chevrolet has now unveiled its seventh generation of Corvettes. The 2014 Corvette Stingray was revealed this week at the Detroit Auto Show. While retaining iconic Corvette spirit and style, the 2014 Corvette Stingray also incorporates advanced technological features in a complete redesign, the seventh such change in the brand's 60 year history. Read on to learn what's new.

Google's AR Glasses Almost Out... for Some of Us

by Katie Gatto

Google's augmented reality glasses may just be coming true soon. The project that is making those glasses possible, uncreatively named Project Glass, has been the temptation of the gadget fiends in the recent past.

US Army Developing Voice Command Robot

by Katie Gatto

New voice command AI for military drones under development.

Facebook's 'Graph Search' Is Another Name For Mobile Advertising

by Ron Callari

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Shakespeare was onto something back in 1600 AD, when he penned that famous Romeo and Juliet line. Its import intimates that its not the name of things that matter, it what those things really are. With the launch of Facebook's "Graph Search" on January 15, 2013, it's important to discern that FB's answer to a 'search engine,' is really it's portal to mobile advertising.

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Hedgehog Robot May Bounce on Martian Moon

by Katie Gatto

A self guiding digital hedgehog robot may be bouncing around a martian moon in the near future.

NIH Scientists Identify Molecule That Restores Memory In Mice With Alzheimer's

Can TFP5 reverse Alzheimer's symptoms in humans?

by T Goodman

This year is starting off with the publication of several promising research studies in biomedicine and reports on big advances in neuroscience, particularly Alzheimer's disease and other neurological causes of memory loss. This news includes a paper from a National Institutues of Health (NIH), published in the January 2013 FASEB Journal reporting on a peptide, TFP5, that when administered to mice with the equivalent of human Alzheimer's disease, successfully reversed their symptoms of memory loss.

Have Researchers Discovered The Fountain Of Thin?

by T Goodman

A scientific breakthrough, something obese and overweight people have only dreamed about, has been made at the University of Florida's (UF) Sid Martin Biotechnology Development Institute, where Dr. Stephen Hsu and his research team have identified a 'fat gene' called TRIP-Br2. When the team controlled the expression of this gene in mice, the mice were unable to gain weight, no matter how much they ate.

New Products From The 2013 Consumer Electronics Show

Crowd at 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Photo by NativeForeigner, flickr.

by Cindi Brown

The 2013 Consumer Electronics Show is underway in Las Vegas, Nevada this week, and innovators of all stripes are showcasing a variety of new wares, from massive designs to pocket-sized gadgets. Some of these new products will come to revolutionize the way we live and some will just fade away. Here are videos of a few promising new items from the show.