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Candy-coated pills could prevent pharmaceutical fraud
Colorful nonpareils can uniquely identify drug capsules and counterfeit fashions
By Holly Ober |
| Science / Technology
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Air-powered computer memory helps soft robot control movements
“Airhead” robot uses pneumatic RAM to play piano
By Holly Ober |
| Science / Technology
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Simple new testing method aims to improve time-release drugs
Glass tuning-fork-shaped tubing gives accurate, continuous measurements of drug dissolution
By Holly Ober |
| Science / Technology
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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
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‘A closed mouth doesn’t get fed’
This future PepsiCo associate was raised without her parents since the age of 9. Her resiliency transformed into grit
By Sandra Baltazar Martínez |
| Students
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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
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Machines whisper our secrets
Spies can learn what a machine is making from the sounds it makes
By Holly Ober |
| Science / Technology