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UC Riverside study uses gene-editing tool to disrupt serotonin receptor linked to egg production in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animals, killing thousands of people and causing millions of illnesses each year. To be able to reproduce and become effective disease carriers, mosquitoes must first attain optimal body size and nutritional status.

From Apple’s Siri to Honda’s robot Asimo, machines seem to be getting better and better at communicating with humans. But some neuroscientists caution that today’s computers will never truly understand what we’re saying because they do not take into account the context of a conversation the way people do. Specifically, say University of California, Berkeley,

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a first-of-its-kind, two-armed, robotic rehabilitation exoskeleton that could provide a new method of high-quality, data-driven therapy to patients suffering from spinal and neurological injuries. Mechanical engineering researcher Ashish Deshpande and a team of graduate students from the Rehabilitation and

The speech rate of Cambridge scientist Professor Stephen Hawking has doubled and his productivity increased ten-fold because of new technology. Prof Hawking has revealed how tech giant Intel has created a new interface for his monitor. This, combined with his speech synthesiser, has doubled the scientist’s speech rate and improved his productivity 10 times over, said the technology

A new semiconductor device capable of emitting two distinct colours has been created by a group of researchers in the US, potentially opening up the possibility of using light emitting diodes (LEDs) universally for cheap and efficient lighting. The proof-of-concept device, which has been presented today, 3 May, in IOP Publishing’s journal Semiconductor Science and Technology,

Kyoto University demonstrates the strength of its new cipher How do we know if the electronic keys we use in our devices are really secure? While it is possible to rigorously test the strength of a cipher — a kind of digital data lock — there are rarely any definitive proofs of unbreakability. Ciphers are

Even the near-miss losers in the Netflix million-dollar-prize competition seemed to have few regrets.

The SOPCAWIND tool is a piece of software that facilitates the design of wind farms, bearing in mind not only the aspects of energy productivity but also the possible impact the wind farm may have on the environment, radars or other telecommunications systems in the vicinity. It also assesses acoustic noise, the effect of shadow

“Children whose families engaged with each other over a 20-minute meal four times a week weighed significantly less than kids who left the table after 15 to 17 minutes.” When low-income families devote three to four extra minutes to regular family mealtimes, their children’s ability to achieve and maintain a normal weight improves measurably, according