The share of solar in the global market for energy generation has doubled in the last 5 years and continues to see rapid growth [1]. While non-renewable energy sources dominate the charts, solar power holds the largest share in the clean energy sector at roughly 44% [2]. Four decades of...
Growing organs in a dish previously sounded a lot like science fiction, but it is already happening. Named by The Scientist as one of the biggest scientific advancements of 2013, researchers have grown what are called “organoids,” three-dimensional organ-buds grown in a laboratory that incorporate certain features that closely resemble...
The United States spends more than any other country on healthcare per person. In 2015, it spent $3.2 trillion in healthcare. By 2025, it will spend about 19.8% of GDP towards healthcare.[1] Despite this, the US is behind other developed nations in healthcare services. Compared to other developed countries, the...
Third Generation photovoltaic devices (or 3GPV) are solution-processed solar cells (SCs) based on organic materials, inorganic semiconductors, nanostructured materials, and hybrids. 3GPVs hold high potential in the renewable energy market given its high efficiency at lower production cost. [blockquote text="In just a decade, 3GPV has almost reached the same efficiency as that...
Google recently unveiled a new tool to help you make better doodles.[1] When someone doodles in Autodraw, the software’s trained neural network recognizes the sketch and suggests clip art based on object recognition. Autodraw is Google’s newest A.I. experiment. (You can access other live Google A.I. experiments here.) Take for example here,...
We are now inundated with a tsunami of data--a metaphor used by many to refer to the speed and quantity of data being generated. The healthcare industry is a key contributor to this data tsunami. Healthcare data is estimated at 500 petabytes in 2012 and is expected to skyrocket to...
The launch of Pokémon Go in July last year has catapulted augmented reality (AR) to mainstream status. Pokémon Go, a location-based AR game developed by Niantic and Nintendo, managed to beat several mobile app records, rapidly rising in less than a month to become the top grossing and most downloaded...
Electronic health records (EHR) has been designed to enable efficient distribution and compilation of healthcare data. EHR is a functional counterpart of all separate physical documents stored for every care-related protocol and clinical event of a patient (including registration, medical history, vital signs monitoring, and laboratory results). With EHR, healthcare providers...