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  • Triclosan and Antibiotic Resistance

    Triclosan
    By Milton Bertrand
    Triclosan is a common ingredient that is added to more than 2000 personal care products. It is intended to reduce or prevent bacterial contamination. These products include toothpaste, hand wash, deodorants, mouthwashes, ...

  • The Black Panther and STEM

    By Milton Bertrand
    The Black Panther and STEM
    As STEMers, we should seize the opportunity to stimulate interest in STEM. The movie Black Panther provides a unique opportunity for educators, professionals and students to see STEM and approac...

  • What we need to know about the new technology dubbed "Duplex"

    Duplex is a new technology by Google that aims to carry out natural-sounding conversations so that Google's virtual assistant can accomplish tasks over the phone on users' behalf. During Google's annual conference for developers, the company showed off...

  • Mice remain slim on high fat diet

    In a publication in Molecular Metabolism, Danish researchers say that they have discovered a way to keep weight off while eating a high fat diet. To do this they genetically delete the enzyme NAMPT in fat tissue of mice, and such deletion renders the a...

  • Alcohol and Cancer: Alcohol Consumption Increases Cancer Risk by Damaging DNA

    Alcohol can damage the liver, cause pancreatitis and increase the risk of developing 7 different types of cancer. But it hasn’t been clear exactly how alcohol causes cancer.
    According to a new research study published in Nature, scientists ...

  • Learning

    Learning is the best investment we can make of our time; we hope this new year will do just that. An investment in learning pays the greatest interest.

    Dedicate yourself to constant learning
    The more you do and the better you will be
    Understand th...

  • Hackers could guess your phone PIN using its sensor data

    Instruments in smart phones such as the accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensors represent a potential security vulnerability, according to researchers.

  • Food scientists find transient effects of a preservative on gut microbiota

    Antimicrobial compounds added to preserve food during storage are believed to be benign and non-toxic to the consumer, but there is "a critical scientific gap in understanding the potential interactions" they may have with the hundreds of species of...  more

  • Drinking Coffee Has Great Health Benefits

    According to scientific researchers, drinking coffee is "more likely to benefit health than to harm it" for a range of health outcomes.  

    They bring together evidence from over 200 studies and find that drinking three to four cups of coffe...

  • Researchers Call for Ethical Rules to Cover AI (Artificial Intelligence)

    By Milton Bertrand

    It is evident that Homo sapiens will not go to war with machines. If anything, we will couple with them. So, we are on the verge of fusing byte and gene. The convergence of artificial intelligence and brain-computer inte...