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Authenticating Booze with a Handheld Device
The device, called SORS (spatially offset Raman spectroscopy), can correctly analyze the chemical makeup of contents concealed in objects such as glass bottles using a laser.
Researchers Found a Way to Stop Ice Build Up By Cracking It
A research team at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is working with a new approach to prevent ice buildup by cracking it.
Watch This: Structural Optimization for Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing is considered the gold standard for innovative industry production. Researchers are now working on making it responsible and cost-effective.
Spring Tolerances: An Often Overlooked Design Consideration
Most design engineers are surprised to learn, though, that springs use a different set of tolerances than machine-based tolerances.
PrivacyStreams Limits Access of Sensitive Information to App Developers
Carnegie Mellon and Peking Universities have been collaborating to develop a service they are referring to as PrivacyStreams, which will help app developers and protect the privacy of smartphone users by providing app developers with the data they need for their apps to function, but not access to private information.
Wireless Banking Linked to Healthy Shopping Choices
New research links wireless banking to healthier shopping choices among food stamp recipients.
Caring for a Sick Pet Just as Taxing on Mental Health as Caring for Sick Relative
As caring for a sick loved one or friend can increase feelings of depression and stress in a caregiver, so too can those feelings increase when caring for a family pet, according to research from Kent State University.
Preventing Roadkill with an Animal Detection System
A prototype of a roadside animal detection system from Brazilian firm ViaFauna includes a set of motion sensors mounted on poles that can be spaced 100 miles apart.
Appealing to Love of the Ocean to Curb Plastic Pollution
One solution, according to researchers, is to caution consumers in much the same way as cigarette companies warn about the dangers linked to smoking: with powerful images appearing on commonly used products.
New Approach to Ultrafast Light Pulses Discovered
2D materials called molecular aggregates are effective light emitters; however, their potential as components for new kinds of optoelectronic devices has been limited by their relatively slow response time. Researchers at MIT, the University of California, Berkely and Northeastern University have found a way to overcome this problem.
Sawdust to Help Fight Future Food Shortages
As concerns for future food shortages grow, thanks to a combination of increased population and a decrease in the availability of farmable land, Luke's Research Scientist Risto Korpinen believes that one solution could be found in a material occupying space in sawmills -- sawdust.
Burning Used Toilet Paper to Create Electricity
Currently, impossible amounts of used toilet paper collect in municipal sewage filters and eventually go through a composting process.
Shopping with the Help of a Smart Mirror
By observing the age, gender and style preferences as indicated by a customer’s selections, the mirror—equipped with sensors, displays and cameras working in conjunction with an algorithm—can make recommendations tailored to the customer about other items in the store.
The Vulnerability of Fitness Trackers
The personal data, according to the researchers, could be shared with third parties, such as marketing agencies and online retailers or used to manufacture false health records, netting hackers cheaper insurance coverage.
4 Common Home Heating Problems and How to Solve Them
Labor Day may be the unofficial end of summer, but for many of us in colder climates the true end of summer that we feel in our bones happens whenever we first turn on the furnace for another year. As long as it kicks on the way it's supposed to, there's no need to give it another thought. But what about when the furnace doesn't work?
The Affordable Audiophile
Q&A with GraphAudio, a company aiming to utilize graphene to bring great sound to the masses.
Asian Business Leaders Considering Tech Solutions to Fight Abuse of Migrant Workers
Recommendations to protect migrant workers from abuse and slavery were made by Asia’s business leaders at the Bali Process, a forum of 45 Indo-Pacific countries meeting on the topic. Chief among the solutions being recommended included various communication technologies.
Reducing Leather Pollution
To remedy the amount of pollution that goes into the manufacturing of leather products such as handbags and jackets, a team of researchers have worked on an environmentally-friendlier solution to the process.
Former Google Employees Want to Automate the Traditional NYC Bodega
Former Google employees Paul McDonald and Ashwath Rajan want to automate a New York City fixture -- the neighborhood bodega.
New Research Starts to Understand the Optical Properties of Glass
The researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have been looking at the properties of stable glasses over a few years.