SCiO
Expanding Technological Frontiers to an Everyday Level Although modern technology already provides mankind with an almost limitless access to digital information, SCiO — a 2015 Israeli innovation that has...
Caught Twice?
Fooling the Lie Detector: The Condom Thief When I was 10, I snuck into the TV room in our house to watch a bit of Ocean’s Thirteen with my older brothers. Before my parents discovered my own egregious...
A Look at End-of-Life Care in the United States
Moving Beyond Death Panels Back in 2009, in the midst of the health care debate, Sarah Palin was famously quoted for saying the proposed reform created figurative “death panels” that would judge whether...
The Hendo Hoverboard
CGI Brought to Life First popularized in Steven Spielberg’s Back to the Future franchise, hoverboards have endured a love-hate relationship with the public for the past three decades. There’s no denying...
Pluto’s Planetary Problem
Fifteen years ago, every child was taught that there are nine planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The status of the planets remained largely...
Gone Viral
Animal Origins of the Ebola Epidemic Ebola seemed to come out of nowhere. On March 25, 2014, the World Health Organization first confirmed an outbreak in four districts of Guinea. There was a total of 86...
Some Weighty News
Your chances of becoming obese may be determined before birth From health food markets to athletic wear stores to calorie-counting iPhone apps, the modern world is pushing us — or at least those of us who...
Higgs Boson Demystified
Even though the field of particle physics lies outside the knowledge bank of most people today, it is likely that the term “Higgs Boson particle” would nevertheless strike a chord in some crevice of most...
