Recent Discoveries and Breakthroughs

Curious to find out about recent discoveries and breakthroughs in health & medicine, science & space, technology, our environment and our living world? Interested in the latest research findings? Please visit us often to get the most interesting research news and updates.

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DropTag Makes Shipping Tracking Easier

by Katie Gatto

The DropTag,made by the folks over at Cambridge Consultants, is designed to make a small cost option for tracking the way that packages are treated when they go from the store to your front door, or when you and your luggage makes its way to your next vacation. The units cost about two dollars each,and will be shown off in April.

Microsoft's Surface Pro: The First PC In A Tablet

by dendory

Tablets have become very popular since Apple's initial unveiling of the iPad, and since then many manufacturers have introduced their own versions, usually running Android. Last year, Microsoft added its own Windows based Surface RT tablet into the mix, but all of those tablets have been running lower powered processors, unable to run full PC software. The Surface Pro however changes all of this.

Rex Robot Shows Off Prosthetics Possibilities

by Katie Gatto

A look at the new Rex robot, made by Shadow, that is designed to show off the forefront of prosthetics technology to the world. With more than half of the organs in the human body being simulated at this point. He will soon be on TV and then in a London museum for the public to see the advances for themselves.

New Treatment Targets Cancer Cells - Not Healthy Ones

UCLA-developed degradable capsules deliver cancer treatment

by T Goodman

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samuel School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new treatment method for cancer; a method that delivers a cancer killer to the nucleus of a cancer cell without harming healthy cells, avoiding the risks associated with gene therapy and chemotherapy.

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App Store Makes Vanity URLs for Developers

by Katie Gatto

Apple has began to use some vanity URLs for developers of apps. This will enable consumers to find apps quickly and easily, as well as to find more apps by the same developer. The URLs first showed up this week in a commercial at the Super Bowl for the app designed to promote the newest of the Star Trek movies.

StormFly Kickstarts The Storm Versus Betting On The Cloud

by Ron Callari

Commuters, kids, business travelers and anyone on the move: How would you like to carry a lite-weight version of your computer on your wrist? While Cloud Computing is definitely the wave of the future, with hundreds of millions of PCs shipping each year, a good amount of today's computing happens locally. And to that end, StormFly has found the answer to moving complete operating systems between devices, quickly, easily and securely.

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Robots Keeping Hospital Rooms Safe

by Katie Gatto

Vancouver Coastal Health announces the use of the Tru-D SmartUVC to help keep their rooms clean and reduce the risk of infection for patients, by adding UV light to the traditional cleaning mix. The new robot should help in lessening the risk of infections such as norovirus, influenza, and C. difficile.

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Large Study Links Erectile Dysfunction To Heart Disease And Early Death

by T Goodman

From Australian National University comes a longitudinal study of more than 95,000 men that links erectile dysfunction (ED) with heart disease. Though previous studies have demonstrated the link between ED and cardiovascular disease (CVD), this is the first study to show how the severity of ED can indicate the extent of the risk - and that ED is not just a risk factor for heart disease, but a risk marker.

Asus WL-330NUL Wireless Router Fits In Your Pocket

by Rey M.L.

Looking like the perfect companion for one who travels with many gadgets, this new Asus router packs wireless hotspot creation through a wired LAN port in a package similar to the size of a typical USB key.

New Protein Discovered In T-Cells That Protects Against The Flu

by T Goodman

Researchers have discovered a protein in some of the body's T-cells that is a powerful repellent of influenza and other viruses. It's called IFITM3, and it won't help the norovirus or the remainder of this season's upper-respiratory flus, but if it can be incorporated into a vaccine, it might ward them off in the near future.