Science

Microneedle Patch: A Pain Free Drug Delivery Technology

by Boomer Babe

Can you even imagine getting a shot of medication directly into your eye? For many with macular degeneration and other eye disease, that's exactly what they go through. Hypodermic needles in their eyes. Oooouuuuch!

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An Electronic Tongue That Knows Its Sweeteners!

by T Goodman

It's a sweet tongue not a sweet tooth but, after all, it is the tongue and not the tooth that contains one's taste sensors. The new electronic tongue has taste buds that biomimic our own but, so far, it only tastes sweets. What a lucky tongue!

Great News For Chocolate Lovers: New Study Tells All!

by Toby

You've heard that chocolate looses it's flavonols, or antioxidants, when cooked. I've reported that myself. But a new study says that's not necessarily true.... and here's why....

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Bee Toxin Launched In Nanobees Kills Tumors In Mice

by Boomer Babe

In a fascinating attempt to thwart cancerous tumors growing in mice, biology and physiology researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis created nanobees to carry bee toxin directly to the tumors.

Lack Of Sleep Can Contribute To Diabetes Risk

by Boomer Babe

Have you ever noticed that your appetite, particularly for sweets and comfort foods, increases when you haven't had enough sleep. Well, new research suggests that lack of sleep may be another risk factor for diabetes, in addition to unhealthy eating habits and sedentary life styles.

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Most People Lie, But 3 to 12 Times In 10 Minutes?

by Boomer Babe

Everyone lies to some degree, but it's interesting to read about a study that actually measured how much we lie!

NASA’s Earth-Friendly Flight Challenge

by Gloria Campos

Aviation plays such an important role in our lives today that despite the aviation industry’s harm to the environment we, as a society, cannot just cease flying. In an effort to promote more earth-friendly flying NASA recently announced the Green Flight Challenge.

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Dark Flash Turns the Camera Flash Invisible

by Chris Weiss

The Dark Flash eliminates the most annoying thing about picture taking (second most annoying if you have one of those lame, kiddy photographers that make cheesy jokes to make you smile)--the flash. Never squint in agony again.

Gecko Grip Findings Will Advance Military, Space Applications

by T Goodman

Despite popular belief, not all geckos are employed by Geico® to star in television commercials. Some of them are walking on glass in science labs while researchers try to figure out just what factors keep them from slipping off! Scientists at the University of Calgary and Clemson University have made that discovery!

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Company Destined To Reveal Caffeine With Test Strips For Coffee

by Beth Hodgson

Those who turn to decaffeinated coffee just can't rely on someone's word that it's what they're getting, and let's be honest here; it was policy when I worked in my first job as a teenager in a coffee fop that if the decaf was out, you top it off with regular. In order to fight off misleading teenagers like I was, Discover Testing has created a product that allows people to test the caffeine content of their beverages.

Sweat Proof Fabrics Biomimic Reponse Of Pine Cone To Humidity

by T Goodman

Embarrassing underarm sweat stains on your clothing may soon be a thing of the past. And your comfort moving from arid to humid microclimates, as one does often in urban areas, may improve dramatically... and all with fabrics that biomimic the response of the pine cone to humidity. Read why the pine cone may be the biomimetic hero of the next generation of fabrics.

Biomarkers In Cerebrospinal Fluid Predict Early Stages Of Alzheimer's

by Boomer Babe

A research study with more than 1500 subjects was undertaken at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Molndal, Sweden. It coorborated the findings of many small studies showing specific changes in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that can predict Alzheimer's disease. The highlights are presented here....

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Electronic Nose Challenges The Dog As Most Sensitive To Human Smell

by T Goodman

While dogs are being cloned for drug-sniffing jobs in South Korea, a kind of mechanical dog is being built in Spain to biomimic the dog's sensitivity to human skin vapors. The developers are calling it the "electronic nose."

Wingless Ladybugs Promise Lasting Pest Control

by Steve Levenstein

Ladybug Ladybug fly away home, your house is on fire and your children will burn... Sorry kiddies, Japanese researchers from Nagoya University have produced "wingless" ladybird beetles that stay on (or near) the plants they're supposed to protect.

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Old Drugs Learn New Tricks For Weight Loss Pill: Contrave®

by Boomer Babe

There's a once a day pill to prevent heart attacks; maybe soon, there will be a once a day pill to fight all addictions. We're headed in that direction now, as two drugs, one used to combat drug and alcohol addiction and the other to quell nicotine addiction, have been combined to fight food cravings....

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Far From The Computer World, Bill Gates Is Killing Hurricanes

by Myra Per-Lee

Ever wonder what Bill Gates was going to do after he resigned from Microsoft®? Well, here's one thing he's doing -- inventing ways to stop hurricanes before they hit land. Is he God or Don Quixote?

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Researchers Use Military Strategy To Come Up With Breakthrough Ovarian Cancer Treatment

by Boomer Babe

You've heard the expression "War On Cancer." Well, even though that war has included ovarian cancer, there has not been much success in fighting this fatal disease in more than thirty years. Here's news though from Dartmouth Medical School, whose researchers took on ovarian cancer with a military strategy called the Trojan Horse.