Month: October 2018

The secret to building a bike that can serve all kinds of riders across the country—and soon, the world.

Facebook made you a device for your home that has a camera on it. Neat!

Cloud gaming is a long-held dream, but Xbox is harnessing the power of Microsoft to make it happen—for real this time.

Almost one in 10 people in the US visited the hospital for nonfatal injuries in 2013 for a total cost of $1.8 trillion. Falls and being hit by objects were the most prevalent causes of injury.

A pilot study has found that pregnant women who have suffered from depression or bipolar disorder (i.e. both mania and depression) recognize babies’ faces and how babies laugh or cry, differently to healthy controls. This happens even if they are not currently experiencing depressive or manic symptoms and may represent an early risk-factor for children of these women, although the authors stress that research would be needed to confirm any long-term effects.

To improve outcomes for patients with non-small-cell lung carcinoma researchers are developing a blood test to detect lung cancer earlier in the disease. A report describes a new technology, electric field-induced release and measurement (EFIRM) that is both highly sensitive and specific in detecting two epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations associated with lung cancer in the blood of NSCLC patients with early-stage disease. This platform is relatively inexpensive and capable of high-throughput testing.

Astronomers have found for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a ‘blaze of glory’ that was witnessed on Earth in 1670.

Baxter is a legend in these early days of advanced robotics. But now its maker, Rethink Robotics, is folding.