According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2016, it will take another 170 years before there is global equality of the sexes, and women around the world only have 59 percent of the access to the economic advantages that men have, the lowest point since 2008. With the estimate for when the…
Crammed with sensors, they can self-assemble, self-charge, can move up and down the wearer’s clothed body. While wearable technology has culminated in smaller, less obtrusive devices, culminating in fitness trackers and smartwatches, but that need not always be the case. Researchers from Stanford and MIT have teamed up to develop miniature robots jammed with sensors…
Although the results of their paper, published in Nature is promising, the researchers are yet to publish any test result on actual computer memory cells. Although the premise is very promising, it will take some more time to be operational in our computers. While CPUs and GPUs speeds have increased considerably, one area in personal…
Once commercialised, sport companies and the navy could reap the benefits of this invention. While large ocean dwelling creatures such as seals and whales keep their bodies warm in the chill ocean water with layers of blubber, smaller mammals such as otters and beavers use a different method for insulating their bodies from the cold.…
Within the next decade HIV may not pose such a serious threat as it does now. In the battle to conquer the HIV virus, researchers have typically focused on preventative medicine and ways to suppress it, however, British researchers have however taken Robert Frosts proverbial road less travelled and have inched towards a probable cure.…
This is yet another milestone in the march towards optical computers. Researchers at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, led by Professor Julien Laurat have created the world’s smallest mirror. This remarkable feat has been achieved by using just 2,000 atoms of cesium. According to Neil Corzo, a postdoctoral fellow who is the…
This capability can significantly boost the effectiveness of drugs while cutting down their research time. Upto now, researchers and biologists have had to study the pathology of a virus through indirect means such as studying their antibodies. Tracking the viruses themselves have been in the realm of dreams, until now. Researchers have finally found a…
The biggest risks in the U.S. are posed by violence, alcoholism, and obesity even as the rest of the world isn’t doing much better. Scandinavian social democracies invariably get a chance to show their quiet dominance in every study ranking nations by health or living standards. And it is no different for a new analysis published this week—perhaps the most comprehensive ever. According…
A large number of jobs for positions in customer service, trucking and taxi services would be eliminated from requirement within the next five years by robots and the so-called intelligent agents. The total loss of jobs would be around 6 percent of all jobs, revealed a recent survey report from Forrester. “By 2021, a disruptive…
It baffles many to logically reason that despite already possess status and wealth, business executives commit financial crimes. Some answers to this dilemma is provided by Eugene Soltes through some interesting theories in his new book, Why They Do it: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal. Many senior business people operate in a moral…
