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Parachutist completes world’s first jump from solar-powered plane
Parachuting from an airplane in itself is a momentous feat, but doing the first jump from a solar-powered plane? That’s legendary. A solar-powered plane flew to a height of 1,520 meters (nearly 5,000 ft) over western Switzerland before parachutist Raphael Domjan made his jump this Read More...
Google rolls out new real-time wildfire boundary maps
Having accurate wildfire data during an active blaze can help save lives and inform critical evacuation decisions. Amidst the wildfires ravaging California, Google Maps has launched a new service that provides real time wildfire boundary data. The program was piloted last year in California Read More...
From fertility to diabetes: 6 ways smartphones can help track health
The processing power of today’s smartphones, along with their high-quality cameras and an array of ever-improving sensors, makes them potentially useful in the medical world for diagnosing different conditions quickly. Let’s take a look at a few early-stage but highly promising examples. A Read More...
Dr. Spot: Meet the robot dog testing coronavirus patients
At one point or another, you must have seen Boston Dynamics’ Spot robots while surfing the web. Spot robots are these somewhat creepy four-legged robot dogs that are designed to nimbly navigate areas wheeled robots cannot, either autonomously or via remote control. From herding sheep in New Read More...
Doctors set to trial experimental treatment for abdominal cancer patients
The unfortunate truth for abdominal cancer patients is that once tumors start to grow on the lining of a cancer patient's abdomen, there's little hope of long-term survival. The good news is that could soon change as researchers are ready to put an experimental cancer treatment to the test in a US Read More...
Video game makers band together to help protect the environment
You slide your finger across the screen, the red bird sitting in a slingshot is ready to fly - you tweak the angle and let go. The bird soars across the sky and as you watch its progress on your phone you're probably not thinking about saving the planet. But that's about to change. Realizing the Read More...
Mapping the Ocean: Robot boat completes 22-day-mission without crew
The more we know about the Earth’s oceans, the more we can do to protect them. But we still know relatively little. As of June, only 19 percent of the ocean floor had been mapped out, meaning we still have a whopping 81 percent of the ocean to survey and map. Fortunately, scientists are finding Read More...
Virtual Reality can help fight racism in the workplace. Here's how
What better way to teach someone about the issues of racism or sexism in the workplace other than putting them in the shoes of a person experiencing such forms of discrimination? Well, that’s exactly what US startup Vantage Point does with its training programs that use virtual reality (VR) Read More...
Google is creating the world’s largest earthquake detector
Google is on a mission to create the world’s largest earthquake detector. To do this, the tech giant is using the same accelerometer that rotates your screen. Beginning with Android 5.0's launch on August 11, phones running the OS will start becoming part of Google's Lucious Fox-like Android Read More...
This bacteria-sampling pill could replace invasive colonoscopies
While a colonoscopy is an important tool for detecting abnormalities in the large intestine (colon), these exams are no joy for patients. If you aren't familiar with what happens in a colonoscopy, it basically involves a long tube with a tiny video camera at the tip that is inserted into the rectum Read More...