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Researchers Identify Vulnerabilities in Cars Connected to Smartphones
Sep 6, 2016Damon McCoy, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and a group of students at George Mason University found vulnerabilities in MirrorLink, a system of rules that allow vehicles ...
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Chemiists Develop a Method for Examining The Inner Workings of Battery-Like Devices
Aug 18, 2014A team of chemists from New York University and the University of Cambridge has developed a method for examining the inner workings of battery-like devices called supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat ...
Tags: MRI, Supercaps, Electrical, Electronics
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Electronic-Embedded Costumes for a Video Game That Demands Hand-Holding
Feb 28, 2014As Fashion Week closes in Manhattan, New York's outer boroughs are offering a glimpse of what the best-dressed techies will be wearing this Valentines Day: electronic-embedded costumes for a video game that demands hand-holding. There's ...
Tags: Video Game, Game Innovation
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Drugs Can Now Be Developed to Stall The Growth of K-Ras Cancers
Feb 26, 2014Findings suggest drugs can now be developed to stall the growth of K-Ras cancers, previously deemed impossible to treat NYU Langone Medical Center researchers have found a biological weakness in the workings of the most commonly mutated ...
Tags: K-Ras, DNA, radiation, Mutated Gene
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Washington and Colorado Became The First States to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Use
Feb 26, 2014NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- In 2012, Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana use. Another 15 states have decriminalized the drug. And 19 states allow it for medical purposes. An increase in ...
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Purified Cannabinoid Is Effective in Treating Severe Forms of Childhood Epilepsy
Feb 25, 2014A new international multi-center study led by researchers from UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is the first to evaluate whether purified cannabinoid is effective in treating severe forms of childhood epilepsy that do not respond to ...
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Journalists Have Long Used The Term "Thumbsucker" to Describe a Piece
Feb 16, 2014Journalists have long used the term "thumbsucker" to describe a piece that was usually fairly long and obvious yet still pulled together some story that was worth telling but didn't have to be told today. "Schedule that thumbsucker from ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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A Study Is The First to Evaluate Whether Purified Purified Cannabinoid Is Effective
Feb 14, 2014A new international multi-center study led by researchers from UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is the first to evaluate whether purified cannabinoid is effective in treating severe forms of childhood epilepsy that do not respond to ...
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Magnetic Waves for a Spin Is Taken by Researchers
Feb 8, 2014Researchers at New York University have developed a method for creating and directing fast moving waves in magnetic fields that have the potential to enhance communication and information processing in computer chips and other consumer ...
Tags: spin wave, NYU, STNO, Nanotechnology
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Major Food Companies Are Keeping Their Word by Removing 6.4 Trillion Calories
Jan 13, 2014Major food companies are keeping their word by removing 6.4 trillion calories from the U.S. marketplace in an effort to promote healthy weight, a new report says. The report, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), a ...
Tags: Food, Calories Cut
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Risk of Death From Hip or Knee-replacement Surgery Has Dropped Substantially
Jan 10, 2014The risk of death from hip- or knee-replacement surgery has dropped substantially in recent years, a large new study finds. Dutch researchers found that since the early 1990s, death rates have fallen by almost two-thirds among Danish ...
Tags: Death Rate, Knee Replacements
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Researchers Developed a New Type of Surgical "Glue" to Help Repair Sick Children's Hearts
Jan 9, 2014Researchers have developed a new type of surgical "glue" that they say could help treat children born with heart defects, such as a hole in the heart. The adhesive can quickly stick biodegradable patches inside a beating heart. Unlike ...
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What Does It Mean When Doctors Say a Person Is Brain-Dead?
Jan 6, 2014What does it mean when doctors say a person is brain-dead? WebMD asked critical care specialist Isaac Tawil, MD, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and bioethicist Arthur Caplan, PhD, director of the ...
Tags: brain-dead, Isaac Tawil, Arthur Caplan
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Having a Lower Variety of Bacteria in The Gut Is Associated with Colorectal Cancer
Dec 27, 2013Having a lower variety of bacteria in the gut is associated with colorectal cancer, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed DNA in fecal samples collected from 47 colorectal cancer patients and 94 people without the disease to ...
Tags: colorectal cancer, gut bacteria, Jiyoung Ahn
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Belief That Mentally Ill Substance Abusers Are Most Frequent Users Is an "Urban Legend"
Dec 27, 2013The widely held belief that mentally ill substance abusers are the most frequent users of hospital emergency departments is an "urban legend," a new study claims. Researchers examined emergency room visits by more than 212,000 Medicaid ...
Tags: mentally ill substance abusers, Medicaid patients, substance abuse
