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ASUS VG278HE Monitor Refreshes @ 144 Hz, Refreshing Gaming Experience

The demand for gaming monitors with 120 Hz refresh rate is growing but ASUS engineers wanted to go beyond. ASUS has just unveiled the ‘ASUS VG278HE’ gaming monitor that offers refreshing rate of 144 Hz.

Google Science Fair: Winners tackle breast cancer, hearing loss and water quality

Finalists and winners of the 2012 Google Science Fair. Foreground: Vint Cerf and Shree Bose (2011 winner)

An expectant crowd gathered last night inside an airplane hangar at a flight school in Palo Alto, California to hear the winners of the second annual Google Science Fair. The grand prize went to Brittany Wenger, 17, of Sarasota, Florida, who wrote a computer program to help doctors diagnose breast cancer less invasively.  Jonah Kohn, 14, of San Diego, Calif. won his age category for creating a device that converts sound into tactile vibration to improve the music-listening experience for the hearing impaired; and a trio from Spain won the 15 to 16 age category for documenting the hazardous and non-hazardous organisms found in water from different parts of their country.

Blind Mice Can Now See - Thanks To A Chemical Injected In Their Eyes!

Research has romanced eyesight restoration for long now, and if the latest news is to be believed, this love story did have a happy ending outcome. A multinational crop of scientists (from UC Berkeley, University of Munich and the University of Washington) have made some advancements which offers the easiest and the cheapest way to restore the light sensitivity of our eyes. A chemical- AAQ (acrylamide-azobenzene-quaternary ammonium) was injected into the eyes of blind mice and the results show that their vision has indeed been restored, though partially. Little quantity of AAQ can cause this effect for a few hours at a stretch, and is quite uncomplicated and less extreme than substitutive methods like stem cell therapy or synthetic implants.

Honda’s Latest CVT For Mid-Size Cars Unveiled

New CVT for Midsize Vehicles Enhances Driving Performance and Fuel Economy to be Featured First on All-New Step WGN and Step WGN Spada

Microbot Walks & Jumps on Water

Chinese microbot walks on water, skims the surface of insect-inspired design.

Bugs are creepy. You don't need to be an entomophobe to empathize with that sentiment. But bugs are also inspiring -- to researchers in China, that is. Taking a cue from nature, a team of engineers from the country's School of Chemical Engineering and Technology have devised a microbot weighing just 0.02 lbs (11 grams) that can repeatedly jump across the surface of water without tanking.

New Method Detects Lung Infection in Ancient Mummy

A novel proteomics method revealed that a 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of its death, showing evidence of an active pathogenic in an ancient sample for the first time. The full report is published July 25 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.

Detecting diseases in ancient remains is often fraught with difficulty, especially because of contamination. Techniques based on microbe DNA can easily be confused by environmental contamination, and they can only confirm that the pathogen was present, not that the person was infected, but the researchers behind the study, led by Angelique Corthals of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, found a way around this problem. They used proteomics, focusing on protein rather than DNA remains, to profile immune system response from degraded samples taken from 500 year-old mummies.