Sometime back, Hinnerk Schulz‑Hildebrandt, a biomedical optics engineer at Harvard Medical School, stumbled on something odd while checking a flight map on his phone. As his eye followed the flight ...

The Iowa Department of Transportation is offering some services at the central campus of the Des Moines Public Library while the Polk County River Place Service Center is closed for repairs. The ...

Costco CEO Ron Vachris put fast food bosses like McDonald's Chris Kempczinski to bed with his own video eating a $1.50 hot dog. He consumed the whole dog, earning him favorable comparisons to the CEO ...

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has proposed sweeping reforms to Australian sunscreen regulations. The proposals include changes to SPF testing requirements, oversight of the labs that do ...

Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely small structure by scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of ...

A new technique based on machine learning and stem cells may lead to personalized testing for hazardous chemicals and make toxin testing on animals a thing of the past. Dubbed ‘forever chemicals’ ...

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