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Content: Volume 5, Issue 2

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Screen time and developmental delays in children: a chicken or egg problem

Technology is now entrenched in the lives of children. Children aged 0-8 are spending over 2 hours per day in front of screens and 98% of children live in a home with an internet-connected device. But what is the impact that technology has on child... click to read more

  • Camille Mori | M.Sc. student at Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Sheri Madigan | Professor at Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on May 27, 2019
Mussel powder engineered to kill pathogens

Hydrogen peroxide is a commonly used disinfectant. A typical household may have a bottle of 3% hydrogen peroxide solution for disinfecting minor cuts and scrapes. Concentrated hydrogen peroxide is also used in municipal wastewater and drinking water treatments, in petrochemical refinery applications, and in bleaching... click to read more

  • Bruce P. Lee | Professor at Department of Biomedical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA
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Reading time 3 min
published on May 24, 2019
Early humans inhabited North Africa earlier than thought

East Africa is notably known for yielding the earliest Oldowan stone tools and hominin butchered animal bones. They were excavated at the site of Gona in the Afar (Ethiopia) dated to 2.6 million years ago (Ma). Hence, most paleoanthropologists believed that human ancestors and their... click to read more

  • Mohamed Sahnouni | Professor at National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on May 22, 2019
Recording cellular memories

Imagine trying to understand an unpredictable movie - such as the iconic Psycho - based only on a sequence of still images, or worse yet, a single image. Biologists currently face a very similar conundrum - we attempt to decipher dynamic processes occurring within cells... click to read more

  • Tanmay Tanna | Research assistant at Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on May 20, 2019
Compressed air energy storage: a technology that (porous) rocks!

Climate Change is caused, in parts, by the increase in greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, to the atmosphere. One of the main sources of carbon dioxide is power plants. Hence, more and more renewable energy sources, commonly known as "renewables", such as wind,... click to read more

  • Julien Mouli-Castillo | Postdoctoral Research Assistant at The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on May 16, 2019