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Munich-based startup Icaros GmbH has a new way to motivate people to exercise more. Its somewhat intimidating fitness system blends the physical world with the virtual world, making you the protagonist of your own video game while working key muscles ...
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There are many drivers increasing general awareness creating perhaps the most predominant trend of 2014: Wellness in the Workplace. I recently spoke with Joan Blumenfeld, of Perkins & Will, and one of the pioneers in this area, who worked with ...
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Health has become a top priority for many of us. We want to take responsibility and find ways to be more proactive when it comes to managing it. Increasingly we are looking for the most natural solutions to facilitate this; ...
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The Birth of an Idea In 2012, James Burgess and Mark Smith learned that a friend of theirs had contracted Clostridium difficile—commonly known as C. difficile—a virulent bacterial infection that, somewhat paradoxically, results from the prolonged use of antibiotics. Once ...
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Scientists have genetically engineered tiny algae to kill up to 90 percent of cancer cells in the lab, while leaving healthy ones unharmed, and the treatment has also been shown to effectively treat tumours in mice without doing damage to ...
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Conventional means of finding cancer can involve numerous types of scans and invasive options like surgical biopsies, but a new method of identifying the disease may involve nothing more onerous than a simple prick of a finger. Researchers at the ...
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Since the Industrial Revolution, our exposure to mercury has risen quite sharply. The upper ocean now has 3.4 times as much mercury as it did pre-Industrial Revolution and it easily makes its way into the food chain. Yellowfin tuna stocks ...
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For all of its promising ideas and potential, Google Glass can, at best, be summed up as a noble failure. In trying to appeal to as broad of an audience as possible, the resulting device offered little in the way ...
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Scientists are a step closer to developing exercise in a pill to help the chronically lazy, elderly, and those medically unable to exercise. Researchers have developed a blueprint of the molecular reactions the human body undergoes during exercise. Why is ...
Munich-based startup Icaros GmbH has a new way to motivate people to exercise more. Its somewhat intimidating fitness system blends the physical world with the virtual world, making you the protagonist of your own video game while working key muscles ...
There are many drivers increasing general awareness creating perhaps the most predominant trend of 2014: Wellness in the Workplace. I recently spoke with Joan Blumenfeld, of Perkins & Will, and one of the pioneers in this area, who worked with ...
Health has become a top priority for many of us. We want to take responsibility and find ways to be more proactive when it comes to managing it. Increasingly we are looking for the most natural solutions to facilitate this; ...
The Birth of an Idea In 2012, James Burgess and Mark Smith learned that a friend of theirs had contracted Clostridium difficile—commonly known as C. difficile—a virulent bacterial infection that, somewhat paradoxically, results from the prolonged use of antibiotics. Once ...
Scientists have genetically engineered tiny algae to kill up to 90 percent of cancer cells in the lab, while leaving healthy ones unharmed, and the treatment has also been shown to effectively treat tumours in mice without doing damage to ...
Conventional means of finding cancer can involve numerous types of scans and invasive options like surgical biopsies, but a new method of identifying the disease may involve nothing more onerous than a simple prick of a finger. Researchers at the ...
Since the Industrial Revolution, our exposure to mercury has risen quite sharply. The upper ocean now has 3.4 times as much mercury as it did pre-Industrial Revolution and it easily makes its way into the food chain. Yellowfin tuna stocks ...
For all of its promising ideas and potential, Google Glass can, at best, be summed up as a noble failure. In trying to appeal to as broad of an audience as possible, the resulting device offered little in the way ...
Scientists are a step closer to developing exercise in a pill to help the chronically lazy, elderly, and those medically unable to exercise. Researchers have developed a blueprint of the molecular reactions the human body undergoes during exercise. Why is ...