by Bruce Brown | May 19, 2017 | General News, Health
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 3 billion people on earth cook with fire. They burn wood, coal, crop waste, or animal dung to prepare meals. However, toxic cooking fumes are responsible for more deaths than tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV...
by Alfred Poor | April 10, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
At 415,000 square miles, the Canadian province of Ontario is larger than any of the United States except Alaska. Yet it has a population that is only a bit larger than that of Pennsylvania (at just 46,000 square miles). These two numbers alone make it clear that...
by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Scientists have studied ways to interface a human brain with a robotic device. One goal is to let a person control a robotic prosthetic limb using his or her mind. It’s a complex problem that is difficult to solve. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and...
by Alfred Poor | February 6, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
The eyes may be the windows on the soul, as the old saying goes, but it turns out that the voice may be an effective window on your physical body. Your spoken words may provide valuable data that can be used as a non-contact way to diagnose disease, even remotely over...
by Bruce Brown | December 5, 2016 | General News, Health
It’s tough to imagine wearing a kitchen sink on your wrist, but in the interest of acceptance of the smart watch as a viable platform, manufacturers are stuffing as many functions as they can into wrist-borne wearables. As a case in point, the Apple Watch Series...