Just three days after Chinese researcher He Jiankui shocked the world by announcing that he had altered the genome of twin girls to make them more resistant to HIV, he claims that another gene-edited baby is on its way. Jiankui announced this …Continue reading
Paralysis patients operate tablet with their minds
New research at the BrainGate initiative — a research team focused on the development of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies for people with neurological disease — may soon allow disabled individuals to operate tablets by simply thinking about cursor movements and clicks. In …Continue reading
MIT engineers create aircraft prototype with no moving parts
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created an aircraft that doesn’t get its thrust from propellers and turbines, but ionic wind — a silent flow of ions that generates the thrust required to keep the plane airborne. The plane …Continue reading
Transforming Policing Through Technology
In 2011, the Punjab province saw a deadly outbreak of dengue fever, affecting 21,685 people, of whom 310 lost their lives. To prevent another outbreak the following year, the provincial government undertook a massive dengue surveillance and eradication effort powered by smartphone-based …Continue reading
Researchers create personalized tissue implants
Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have created the world’s first fully personalized tissue implant, which has been engineered using the patient’s own materials and cells. This new biotechnology makes it possible to engineer any kind of tissue implant from one small …Continue reading
Battling to breathe
At the onset of winter in 2016, Lahore saw smog for the first time. Visually, the scene was similar to the usual fog the city experiences in winter season, and many thought that fog had arrived early. But soon, when residents of …Continue reading
‘Father of the internet’ dismayed over current state of his creation
In an interview with Reuters, father of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee expressed disappointment over the state of his creation. He was particularly concerned by the abuse of personal data by Silicon Valley corporations like Google and Facebook, and the ease …Continue reading
Darwin’s principles secure the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
This year’s Nobel Laureates in Chemistry seem to be inspired by a phenomenon more closely associated with Biology than Chemistry — evolution. Half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Frances H. Arnold of the California Institute of Technology, …Continue reading
Applications open for Google’s Women Techmaker Program 2018
Google has opened applications for its Women Techmakers Program 2018. Formerly known as the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Program — it is open to women from countries all around the world, including Pakistan. Dr Borg was an American computer scientist who …Continue reading
NASA develops technologies to reduce aircraft noise
In a series of flight tests, NASA has successfully tested technologies that achieve a significant reduction in the noise generated by aircraft and heard by communities near airports. The Acoustic Research Measurement (ARM) flights, which concluded in May at NASA’s Armstrong Flight …Continue reading