A*STAR researchers have developed a rapid, high-throughput screening procedure that can detect RNA aptamers—special messenger RNA molecules (mRNAs) able to sense and respond to particular cellular chemicals—in a sea of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 4, 2018
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We rarely see a truly remarkable new technology more than once a decade. After years of undelivered promises, such a technology looks finally set to enter the market: the flexible computer screen.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 21, 2018
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Apple and Google want to help you spend less time on their phones—really. Like that time you checked Facebook at 3 a.m. Stats don't lie.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 18, 2018
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Apple unveiled three new iPhones on Wednesday, including its biggest and most expensive model yet, as the company seeks to widen the product's appeal amid slowing sales.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 12, 2018
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The holidays may be over – but the debate over young people and screen time continues. And as anxious parents prepare children for the start of a new school term, many will have concerns about what exposure to technology ...
Social Sciences
Sep 5, 2018
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Parents lament their teenagers' noses constantly in their phones, but they might benefit from taking stock of their own screen time habits.
Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2018
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A new type of pressure sensor based on light could allow the creation of sensitive artificial skins to give robots a better sense of touch, wearable blood-pressure monitors for humans and optically transparent touch screens ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 14, 2018
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In recent years, some physicists have been investigating the possibility that gravity is not actually a fundamental force, but rather an emergent phenomenon that arises from the collective motion of small bits of information ...
As if driving a Tesla wasn't different enough already from the cars and trucks we have been wheeling around on the road for decades, how about adding some "Asteroids" to the mix?
Business
Aug 9, 2018
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A new screening tool developed at the University of British Columbia is giving seafood companies the ability to pinpoint the highest risks of forced labour in their supply chain.
Ecology
Jul 26, 2018
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