❤️ Health Tech
Health Tech, or digital health, helps us understand and take control of our own health. But we also cover more traditional health news like medicines, vaccines and medical procedures.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Video games rot your brain... not!
The ancient statement that games are bad for you are getting old, and not in a good way. In this article, you get the edge of how video games can help you grow attractive traits and skills that help you both in private- and work life.
🌋 Mobile app reunites families in volcano eruption
A newly developed app helps families reunite during volcanic eruptions. The app has already helped reunite children with their parents in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
😩 An inflatable implant can ease pain more efficient than pills
An implant thin as hair that wraps around the spine can help patients that suffer from severe pain.
🥽 VR provides pain relief to kids with burn injuries
A VR app reduces the pain when children with burn injuries need to do dressing changes.
🐝Vaccine for bees makes them immune against pesticides
A vaccine can break down pesticides in the stomach of bees, preventing them from dying. The new vaccine has turned into a company.
💊A mint that can make your teeth whiter
Scientists have genetically engineered a mint that rebuilds destroyed enamel and makes your teeth whiter.
💡Optimist's Edge: This is how scientists are trying to outmaneuver aging to give you a longer life
Since the beginning of humanity, humans have had to find contentment in the dilemma that living means aging and death. But old age is not inevitable. There are several ways to slow down and reverse aging and this is what you need to know to have a chance at a 100-year life.
✈ The sound of airplanes – from thunder to the rumbling of a hairdryer
A new sound-insulating material can lower the noise level of an airplane engine by 80 percent, and at the same time reduce the weight of the insulating material.
👃 An electronic nose smells cancer in blood samples
A regular blood test can show if you have cancer cells in your blood and if a tumor is benign or malignant.