Content Tagged with: Philip Brisk

Bottles of chemicals with hazard labels

Can I mix those chemicals? There’s an app for that!

New technology can find the safest way to store and dispose of reactive chemicals
By Holly Ober | | Science / Technology
Seismograph recording

Earthquakes, chickens, and bugs, oh my!

New big data algorithms improve earthquake detection; monitor livestock health and agricultural pests
By Holly Ober | | Science / Technology
Chronoprint 75% cough syrup

Seeing through food and drug fakes and frauds

“Chronoprints” can identify a sample from a video taken as it reacts to disturbance
By Holly Ober | | Science / Technology
Base pairs of DNA fold themselves up into a spiral. Credit: Darryl Leja and Ernesto Del Aguila III, NHGRI

Machines whisper our secrets

Spies can learn what a machine is making from the sounds it makes
By Holly Ober | | Science / Technology
p chip

Microchips can permanently link patients with clinical samples

Project to embed patient data directly in biological samples receives Gates Foundation funding
By Holly Ober | | Science / Technology