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New prosthetics incorporate sense of touch

By JOSH SCARALIA | October 26, 2013

You’ve made it to the final round in a million dollar competition! There is one last challenge you must complete, and it seems elementary; they present two cups to you, and, while blindfolded, you must determine which cup has hot water and which cup has cold water. They blindfold you, and you put your hands out. You grab both cups and feel that one is hotter than the other. You have made your decision! Congratulations! You won!

Sunlight and wastewater could solve fuel crisis

By TONY WU | October 26, 2013

Many Americans are rather familiar with the current energy crisis. As the world population continues to grow, available fuel deposits and supplies continue to dwindle. Some estimate that the Earth will reach an energy shortage epidemic in the next 50 years.

Fruit flies are becoming the next TBI animal model

By REGINA PALATINI | October 26, 2013

Instead of studying burly 300 pound NFL linemen, a group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UM) have turned to an enormously different sized individual, the common fruit fly, weighing in at a little less than one milligram.

Curiosity rover confirms water in dusty Martian soil

By MELISSA STALEY | October 26, 2013

The Red Planet has long been the subject of many science fiction films and literature. Ideas of little green men and life on Mars have populated popular culture for centuries and are thought to be just the product human imagination and myth. After all, could the barren planet really be able to support life?

Apple stays competitive with new iPad updates

By SEAN YAMAKAWA | October 26, 2013

Three weeks ago, Apple announced to the world, “We still have a lot to cover.” With the iPads, Macbook Pros and Apple TVs all sorely needing a refresh to compete with other vendors, we were left to wonder what would be released. On Tuesday, we found out what Apple was up to.

Bioethics Corner: Can the government regulate your diet?

By SAAD ANJUM | October 26, 2013

The American Medical Association issued a statement that labeled obesity as a disease this past June. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that the health consequences of this disease include: coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, endometrial, breast and colon cancers, hypertension and a host of other conditions.

MIT's M-block robots are capable of self-assembly

By SAMHITA ILANGO | October 18, 2013

Self-assembling robots are a new breed of a once thought to be impossible machine of another world. Not just hunks of metal and buttons that can pick up and drop objects, more than the robotic carpet cleaner Roomba, and well beyond the mechanic dance move from the 1960s, self-assembling robots have catalyzed a new generation of automatic devices.

Brain activity measured during real-life situations

By SEAN YAMAKAWA | October 18, 2013

We have always been baffled by the link between mind and brain. Even after dozens of years of research, people have not come to a general consensus on how the brain controls memories and thought. A team of researchers at Stanford University, however, recently made a breakthrough in this field in understanding how the brain acts in real-life situations.

Big Tobacco continues to have influence on market

By JOEL PALLY | October 18, 2013

When most think of the tobacco industry in this nation, they think of one that is in decline. While Big Tobacco held incredible amount of influence and controlled significant mindshare among the citizens of this nation, this no longer remains the case.

Researchers inch closer to a cure for allergies

By SOPHIA GAUTHIER | October 18, 2013

I watched, mildly terrified, as my paramedic instructor stabbed an EpiPen into a sheet of cardboard. The shot of epinephrine, used to stave off the lethal effects of an anaphylaxis reaction, forcefully splattered against the wall a good ten feet away. Talk about intense.

Bioethics Corner: Google Glass raise privacy concerns

By SAAD ANJUM | October 18, 2013

By now, most people will have heard that Google is developing a gadget known as Google Glass, an eyeglasses-like, wearable computer that features a heads up display. Glass is intended to be the next step in the evolution of the smartphone by making it wearable and unobtrusive. This allows the user to be more fully engaged with and through the device.

Particle accelerator designed to fit in a chip

By JOEL PALLY | October 14, 2013

We may not realize it, but we live in a world with particle accelerators all around us. While, the most commonly well known accelerator, The Large Hadron Collider, which recently went operational, is capable of moving protons and even entire atomic nuclei at speeds approaching relativity, we’ve been doing the same thing with electrons without many of us realizing it. From Dental X-Rays, to Security Scanning Devices and Medical Resonance Imaging (MRI), atomic particles moving at the speed of light are being harnessed for a variety of practical tasks all around us not including research in physics and many other sciences dependent on imaging technologies.

Lonely gas giant is found floating starless

By SOPHIA GAUTHIER | October 14, 2013

If celestial bodies could embrace cultural titles, then the wandering planet named PSO-J318.5-22 would be the hipster of all hipsters. Recently discovered by a collaboration of astronomers working at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the planet — which I will endearingly bestow the nickname, PJ — is perhaps the boldest example yet of Tolkien’s “Not all those who wander are lost.”

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