Jan 25, 2020 | Health & Medical, Science & Tech
A variety of medical devices can be inserted into the gastrointestinal tract to treat, diagnose, or monitor GI disorders. Many of these have to be removed by endoscopic surgery once their job is done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside the body when they are exposed to light from an ingestible LED.
Read MoreJan 25, 2020 | Health & Medical, Science & Tech
Patients with diabetes have to test their blood sugar levels several times a day to make sure they are not getting too high or too low. Studies have shown that more than half of patients don’t test often enough, in part because of the pain and inconvenience of the needle prick. But, a new noninvasive technique may allow those with diabetes to directly measure glucose concentrations through the skin.
Read MoreJan 23, 2020 | Health & Medical, Science & Tech
Molecular drills can now target and destroy deadly bacteria that have evolved resistance to nearly all antibiotics. In some cases, the drills make the antibiotics effective once again.
Read MoreDec 23, 2019 | Science & Tech
There are already more than 500,000 pieces of debris, or “space junk” orbiting Earth and that number is still increasing. So, the European Space Agency signed a debris-removal contract with Swiss startup ClearSpace to address this growing problem.
Read MoreNov 18, 2019 | Science & Tech
Robocalls are at an all-time high. On average, Americans received more than 2,000 robocalls every second in October, up 25% from the previous month. With 49 billion robocalls so far this year, all four major U.S. phone carriers now offer some form of blocking or screening service, such as T-Mobile’s well known “Scam Likely” label. Congress and state officials passed new robocall regulations in recent months and have seen an uptick in successful cases against the scammers. Meanwhile, hundreds of tech start-ups are developing new ways to tackle the problem.
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