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Top Five Ways to Boost Your Health in 2019 – Based on the Latest Research
It’s the start of a new year and there is no doubt that 2019 will be as saturated with nutritional nonsense as 2018. From appetite suppressant lollypops to activated charcoal, the wellness industry was worth $4.2 trillion in 2017 and this figure is set to keep rising. With this in mind, the start of the… Read More
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Is Exercise Still Important to Weight Loss? Absolutely, a Doctor Says
“Exercise isn’t really important for weight loss” has become a popular sentiment in the weight loss community. “It’s all about diet,” many say. “Don’t worry about exercise so much.” This idea crept out amid infinite theories about dieting and weight loss, and it quickly gained popularity, with one article alone citing 60 studies to support… Read More
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How We’re Designing Musical Instruments with the Help of Disabled Musicians and VR
Most new digital technologies tend to be designed with an able-bodied user in mind. The first desktop computers required fine motor skills to navigate software menus using a mouse, and mobile phones need users to press buttons, swipe screens, and so on. To use such technology a person needs to be fairly dexterous. In our… Read More
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Holographic Teachers Were Supposed to Be Part of Our Future. What Happened?
Cast your mind back to the turn of last century. Experts predicted that by now classrooms would no longer feature human teachers, and holographic virtual entities would deliver lessons instead. This certainly hasn’t happened. The closest we have come is group video chat via apps like FaceTime, Zoom or Google Hangouts. But this doesn’t mean… Read More
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Virtual Reality Tours Give Rural Students a Glimpse of College Life
The first time that Nyah visited the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for a campus tour, there wasn’t much of a chance to see what takes place inside the classrooms. “We just walked by buildings and the guide talked about what goes on inside,” Nyah recalls of the campus tour this past spring. But… Read More
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12 Jobs for Engineering Majors
Engineering is one of the most popular STEM majors for a reason. Engineering graduates are in high demand, and many are able to find stable and well-paying employment with only a bachelor’s degree. Engineers come in all shades — mechanical engineers who develop cars, robots, and air conditioners; civil engineers who design the built environment;… Read More
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What Will Make College Students Vote in 2020?
There is no question that today’s college students are deeply invested in politics. They are taking to the streets of their campuses in historically large numbers to protest against gun violence, racial injustice and climate change, among other issues. But when it comes to voting, young Americans haven’t shown up at the same rate as… Read More
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Want to Improve Your Mood? It’s Time to Ditch the Junk Food
Worldwide, more than 300 million people live with depression. Without effective treatment, the condition can make it difficult to work and maintain relationships with family and friends. Depression can cause sleep problems, difficulty concentrating, and a lack of interest in activities that are usually pleasurable. At its most extreme, it can lead to suicide. Depression… Read More
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A Robot That Can Touch, Eat and Sleep? The Reality of Cyborgs Like Alita: Battle Angel
Alita: Battle Angel is an interesting and wild ride, jam-packed full of concepts around cybernetics, dystopian futures and cyberpunk themes. The film – in cinemas from today – revolves around Alita (Rosa Salazar), a female cyborg (with original human brain) that is recovered by cybernetic doctor Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) and brought into the world… Read More
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5 Ways to Help Robots Work Together with People
For most people today, robots and smart systems are servants that work in the background, vacuuming carpets or turning lights on and off. Or they’re machines that have taken over repetitive human jobs from assembly-line workers and bank tellers. But the technologies are getting good enough that machines will be able work alongside people as… Read More
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Can Genetic Engineering Save Disappearing Forests?
Compared to gene-edited babies in China and ambitious projects to rescue woolly mammoths from extinction, biotech trees might sound pretty tame. But releasing genetically engineered trees into forests to counter threats to forest health represents a new frontier in biotechnology. Even as the techniques of molecular biology have advanced, humans have not yet released a… Read More
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Experts Call for Halt to CRISPR Editing That Allows Gene Changes to Pass on to Children
Remember the global outrage four months ago at world-first claims a researcher had used the gene editing tool CRISPR to edit the genomes of twin girls? The molecular scissors known as CRISPR (CRISPR/cas9 in full) allow scientists to modify DNA with high precision and greater ease than previous technologies. Now researchers from the USA, Europe,… Read More
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Using Gene Drives to Control Wild Mosquito Populations and Wipe Out Malaria
What is the deadliest animal on earth? It’s a question that brings to mind fearsome lions, tigers, sharks and crocodiles. But the answer is an animal that is no more than 1 centimeter long. A few mosquito species, out of the thousands that populate different environments, are the deadliest animals on earth. Anopheles mosquitoes alone,… Read More
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CRISPR Babies Raise an Uncomfortable Reality – Abiding by Scientific Standards Doesn’t Guarantee Ethical Research
Uncertainty continues to swirl around scientist He Jiankui’s gene editing experiment in China. Using CRISPR technology, He modified a gene related to immune function in human embryos and transferred the embryos to their mother’s womb, producing twin girls. Many questions about the ethical acceptability of the experiment have focused on ethical oversight and informed consent.… Read More
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12 Jobs for Kinesiology Majors
A degree in kinesiology, the study of body movement, is excellent preparation for a variety of careers related to exercise science and medicine. For people who are interested in health and athletics, a kinesiology degree can function as a stepping stone to a job in sports as a coach or athletic trainer, in medicine as… Read More
