The Search Engine Race
A Two Sided Game Plan In 1998, Lawrence “Larry” Page and his colleague at Stanford, Sergey Brin, outlined the then-current status of search engines. Yahoo!, WebCrawler and Search Engine Watch were...
Does ADHD Exist? The Logic behind the Controversy
As of 2011, 6.4 million children in the United States were diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). From 2003 to 2013 alone, America saw a 41 percent increase in ADHD diagnoses in...
Curiosity: Radiation-Proof Space Computing
Space is known as the inhospitable final frontier; challenges to biological organisms — notably, humans — come to mind. However, an often overlooked issue is the immense challenges posed to electronics in...
Water on the Red Planet
The Potential for Life and Exploration on Mars This summer, a group of scientists found groundbreaking evidence of recently flowing liquid water on Mars. Since this was confirmed by NASA, the resulting...
Brain Disease Found in 96% of Former NFL Players
Researchers have found widespread brain disease in dead NFL players. New figures from the Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center in Boston — the country’s largest brain bank focused on studying...
A Cap on Life
Telomere Length and Lifestyle It is the year 1975. Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn is doing her postdoctoral fellowship at Yale, when she notices something strange about the genome of the protozoan Tetrahymena...
More for Less
Polyphasic Sleep Patterns It’s Monday morning, and you and your friends sit around a table at the dining hall. All you can see are coffee cups and another week of despair ahead of you. You only got four...
Machine Learning
Predicting the Next Major Outbreak When medicine and technology appear together, images of robots performing surgery, new drug designs, and 3D-printing organs are evoked. Not only is technology...
Thync
Starbucks’ Technological Alternative For the majority of Americans who are sleep-deprived on a regular basis, a cup of coffee is not only a prerequisite for braving chilly Monday mornings, but also a...
‘Braking’ into a Greener Subway Future
There are certain things you get used to if you have to ride the subway every single day. People diving at closing doors to avoid waiting two minutes for the next train, mysterious sticky patches on the floor,...