Category: News

Electronic skin patch offers the superior way of monitoring blood alcohol levels

Imagine the morning after a superb Friday’s night out spent in a good company. The wake-up call can be, besides the potential headache, the necessity to drive to a nearby store or to go pick up a family member from an airport. “Safety comes first”, the motto embedded in your head, pops up as soon as you reach out for the car keys. But are you really safe to sit behind the wheel? You need some proof.

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Scientists find an efficient way of converting carbon dioxide into a reusable fuel

The Earth is our home, there is no denying that. It has served us as a shelter for millions of years, providing all the proper conditions and means there are to preserve the human species. With so many factors to be treasured, humans havent been known to hold the planet in such a high regard, contributing to worldwide threats like global warming by burning the fossil fuels in power plants and car engines.

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Swirling data: Boosting computing power and info transfer rates tenfold

“The bigger, the better”. Today’s world is obsessed with this idiom and as such, it can be seen all around us. Automobile manufacturers make bulkier cars, engineers constantly strive to build taller buildings. But when it comes to computers and computer chips in particular, the opposite is true. Society’s ever growing demand for information sharing is loosely linked with how big, or rather how small the computer chips are.

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Open source web browser allows browsing based on personal online data

What happens when you fuse a web browser together with a social media? You get RUMPEL. The first of its kind web browser promises to save us time with smarter browsing, allows us to be in control of our very own private “personal data palette” stored all across the internet, thus being beneficial to ourselves and not just the businesses willing to harvest it.

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Solar plane makes history after completing round-the-world flight

The world of renewable energy accomplished a monumental feat. Solar Impulse 2, a solar-powered aeroplane became the first manned plane of its kind that successfully completed round-the-world flight. The final stretch of its 23 days long journey in the air ended at the place where it all began, Abu Dhabi on Tuesday 26 July. A plane powered only by sun, requiring no fossil fuel, able to tour the globe may sound a bit like science fiction, but two Swiss pilots, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg done the imaginable.

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Web-based software improves ADHD care and assessment of symptoms

Even though ADHD doesn’t only affect children, they are the most vulnerable among us. Knowing the symptoms well and intercepting the disease at its early stages leads to a much joyful life. With the intention of allowing children to live up to par with their peers, more thorough research on the illness is often required.

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Prototype display allows for glasses-free 3D from any seat in a theater

“Please put on your 3D glasses” A phrase, buried deep inside our minds. This statement accompanies every 3D screening and essentially, prompts us to wear the glasses in order to not spend the next few hours in a blurry, visual mess. Imagine that all you ever needed to grab was a popcorn bucket and a large soda, no spectacles that don’t sit on the nose properly.

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