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Body heat converted into electricity powers health sensors

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS — There has been an increasing number of wearable technologies that have health sensors as medical tools to track a person’s well-being. Many of these devices need to be...

NASA Offers Challenge with $750,000 Reward to Further Mars Goal

The U.S. space agency NASA is offering a public challenge, with a lofty $750,000 reward, to anyone who can find ways to turn carbon dioxide into compounds that would be useful...

DOST inks MOA for grants to promising researchers

MANILA -- The Department of Science and Technology has inked a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with young innovators over the weekend, to provide them research grants and stipends. The young innovators were those...

How Binhai effect forges culture of innovation

TIANJIN, China – From a salt alkaline wasteland to a new hub of innovation and cyberspace -- that is how the Binhai City in Tianjin was rebranded and is continuously being developed...

Biggest studies on aspirin show risks outweigh benefits for many people

Doctors have long recommended that people who have had a heart attack or stroke take a daily low-dose aspirin to help prevent further heart problems. Now major research has tested whether...

Experts warn of a return of the AIDS epidemic

WASHINGTON — Thirty-six million people currently live with AIDS, a disease that claimed the lives of nearly 1 million people last year. Experts predict that by 2030, 100 million people will have been...

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