Tag: Winter2016

In 2016, robots become mainstream. Moreover, they begin breeding, transforming many aspects of daily life. Robots now are doing hundreds of human chores, from monitoring an elderly shut-in’s mood swings to searching for lost hikers. In the months ahead, we’ll become even more aware of their presence — and abilities — as more tasks, both simple and...

A recent visitor to Venice Beach, California, was parking his car when he was approached by a young man who handed him a business card. The card was for a service that would park someone’s car to spare them the trouble and time of prowling the streets for a space, then deliver the car to...

It’s official. The West has launched Crusades 2000.  If the first nine were not enough to satisfy the bloodthirsty and fanatical, the 10th Crusade will deliver death, mayhem and massacre on a global scale that only ruling presidents, prime ministers, chancellors, fellow politicians, the presstitute media and a sick-minded public could get off on. Go...

Elated as they stood in the cold on a November evening in 2008, packs of millennials celebrated the election of their new president. Barack Obama was the great hope of a great new generation, the largest in the world at 78 million strong.  The millennials held their “HOPE” signs high. Fifty-one percent of them voted...

Drugs that could fight cancer and other conditions in the brain have long been prevented from entering that tightly guarded place by the blood-brain barrier, a densely interlocked network of cells lining the brain’s blood vessels to screen out harmful substances. Recently, scientists at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto broke through that cordon for...

Most researchers seeking to cure or prevent Alzheimer ’s disease target ways to prevent or remove plaque that builds up in the brain’s blood vessels. But researchers at the Salk Institute took a different approach: Instead of taking on the disease directly, they decided to cure its chief cause — old age. Treated with an...

As much as people love watching pet videos or sending wedding photos over the Internet, they’re frustrated by slow transmission speeds. Now, Canadian researchers have invented a way to transmit optical information as much as six times faster while using less energy. At Université Laval in Québec, engineers have created an electronic component called a...

A decade ago, science isolated the rare genetic mutation that renders a person able to feel touch but unable to feel pain. But using drugs to replicate the condition as a way to manage chronic pain has proven ineffective. So, scientists at University College London engineered mice that carried the human version of the genetic...

A faster, cheaper way to transform seawater into fresh water has been developed by a University of Illinois research team. The invention could make fresh water cheaper and more plentiful for coastal nations, such as Saudi Arabia, when droughts are becoming more frequent around the world. In the usual process of removing brine from ocean...