[ad_1] Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. With the help of programmed magnetic nanobeads, a diagnostic tool that plugs into an off-the-shelf phone can diagnose COVID-19 in 55 minutes or less. The stamp-sized microfluidic chip measures the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein in blood serum from a standard finger …
Keep Your Ears Clean With SPADE, The Smartest Ear Wax Remover
[ad_1] We throw away a lot of plastic, and it will stick around for decades. That includes your cotton swabs. Worse, cotton swabs aren’t particularly effective at their primary job, namely cleaning out your ears. Shoving a swab in your ears just grinds the wax into your ear canal further. Fortunately, SPADE, the smartest ear wax removal system, can not …
AI and Smartphones Are Improving Early Cancer Detection
[ad_1] AI and Smartphones Are Improving Early Cancer Detection Brian Wang | February 24, 2021 | AI can greatly improve the accuracy of cancer detection from MRI, X-ray and other medical imaging. Approximately 25% of cases of lung cancer diagnosis are missed when doctors check chest x-rays. New AI systems are catching more of the …
This Kit Lets Kids Build Their Own Retro Game Console While Learning Basic STEM
[ad_1] We all know the importance of STEM education. The trick is figuring out how to get kids interested. After all, it’s not like you can reason with kids. You can’t just sit down and patiently explain that STEM instills creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving skills, or that, in our ever-changing and increasingly technological world, STEM skills will prepare …
Patient Dies After Doctors Transplant COVID-Infected Lungs
[ad_1] A Michigan woman has died from COVID-19 two months after receiving a double-lung transplant from a donor who had been infected with the virus. The woman, who had chronic obstructive lung disease, contracted the virus when she received a lung transplant at the University Hospital at Ann Arbor, according to Kaiser Health News. Three days after the operation, she …
Green tea compound may help fight cancer
[ad_1] 15th February 2021 Green tea compound may help fight cancer An antioxidant found in green tea may increase levels of p53, a natural anti-cancer protein, known as the “guardian of the genome” for its ability to repair DNA damage or destroy cancerous cells. Published this month in Nature Communications, a study of the direct interaction …
Peer-To-Peer Real Estate Platforms Eliminate Hassles and Upfront Costs
[ad_1] Ask just about any financial adviser and they’ll tell you everyone should invest in real estate. The real estate market is generally more stable than the stock market, it has low or sometimes negative correlations to other asset classes, and it offers superior cash flows. The only problem, of course, is that investing in real estate is extremely time …
Ceramic in meteorites upends theory of early solar system
[ad_1] Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new analysis of ceramic chips embedded in meteorites suggests the formation of our solar system was not as quiet and orderly as we once thought. The new study builds evidence that the baby solar system likely witnessed wild temperature swings and changing …
This ‘Quantum Brain’ Would Mimic Our Own to Speed Up AI
[ad_1] Unless you’re in the lithium battery or paint business, you’re probably not familiar with cobalt. Yet according to a new paper, it may be the secret sauce for an entirely new kind of computer—one that combines quantum mechanics with the brain’s inner workings. The result isn’t just a computer with the ability to learn. The mechanisms that allow it …
Quantum Encrypted Communication Between Drones
[ad_1] Zhenda Xie at Nanjing University has created cheap quantum encrypted communication between drones. Above – Quantum network and physical realization with mobile drone-based nodes. (a) A practical quantum network consists of multinode structure and should provide access for users at any time. (b) If link distance is over the Rayleigh length limit, the beam aperture will be divergent and …