by Don Basile | Apr 29, 2019 | Technology
Imagine entering an operating room for major surgery and knowing that your team of physicians has already practiced the procedure on a replica of your body. Before you go under anesthesia, you can feel confident that your surgery will be shorter, your recovery time...
by Don Basile | Apr 19, 2019 | Technology
Plastic has become an integral part of daily life, being the main component for devices, objects, and gadgets that humans use every day all over the planet. It was accidentally discovered in 1907 by scientist Leo Hendrik Baekeland, when he combined formaldehyde...
by Don Basile | Oct 30, 2018 | Technology
We’ve all seen images of the veritable plastic islands floating in our oceans and on our shores. By 2050, Earth’s oceans could well have more plastic than fish. But an ambitious ocean cleanup...
by Don Basile | Oct 10, 2018 | Business, Digital, Technology
Graphene almost sounds like the stuff of science fiction, or at least a dead-of-night infomercial — too good to be true, too amazing to be believed. It has been called a “supermaterial,” in that it is composed of a carbon layer just one atom thick, making it the...
by Don Basile | May 11, 2017 | Business, Digital, Technology
The debate as to whether or not the human brain is computable has been a topic of discussion among scientists and technologists for quite some time. Leading scientists, such as Miguel Nicolelis, argue against such possibilities. Nicolelis, Duke school of Medicine...
