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A team of researchers at MIT claim to have developed a new and improved glass that is both anti-fogging and glare-free. The near-invisible glass is also said to be self-cleaning, and it could have dozens of practical applications.

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Jogging regularly can add years to your life.
Jogging regularly may help you live longer, a new study from Denmark suggests.  The study finds that women who regularly jogged lived 5.6 years longer than women who didn’t, and men who jogged lived 6.2 years longer than those who didn’t.

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The new filling contains calcium phosphate nanoparticles that rebuild tooth minerals.
Thanks to a new dental breakthrough, the dreaded trip to the dentist to replace a worn-out filling could soon be a thing of the past.  Scientists have used nanotechnology to create the first cavity-filling composite that kills harmful bacteria and regenerates tooth structure lost to [...]

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E-mail causes stress at work.
Your email could be killing you!
The University of California, Irvine and United States Army researchers released a new study on Thursday which found that people who do not look at e-mail on a regular basis at work are less stressed and more productive.

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A new first for a private spaceship.
You are looking at the first private spaceship that will dock with the International Space Station: a SpaceX Dragon on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. It’s the beginning of the future of manned space travel, people…

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The goal is to help visually impaired people move around more efficiently without physical aids.
head-up display.  Two cameras mounted to a pair of glasses generate a three-dimensional image of a person’s environment and their place in it, displaying the information on a handheld Braille device.

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Alcoa’s smog-eating panels.
The giant multinational of aluminum production Alcoa announced last week that its new “smog-eating” architectural panels can remove pollutants from the surrounding air. The aluminum panels, branded Reynobond with EcoClean technology, have a titanium dioxide coating which breaks down pollutants in direct sunlight.

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Brain scans can show the difference between ”go-getters” and ‘’slackers”.
Scientists have identified neural pathways that appear to influence an individual’s willingness to work hard to earn money. Lazy people who prefer to live off others may have brains that are wired for under-achievement, according to a new study.

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Energy drink habit among teens is causing irreversible damage to teeth as the high acidity levels in the drinks erode tooth enamel.
Scientists have warned that teenagers’ love of energy drinks is taking a terrible toll on their teeth.  A study published in the Academy of General Dentistry charted an alarming increase in the consumption of [...]

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Hair salon Super Hair Seo in Nishinomiya, Japan is playing lucky host to Panasonic’s Head Care Robot, which is undergoing its first tests alongside hairdressers.  The shampoo robot  ‘offers a degree of comfort that users cannot experience with human hands.’

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BioHarness sensors from Zephyr Technologies can be worn as a patch or as a strap.
Wireless carriers are fueling the boom of a new generation of mobile technology for remotely monitoring family members and others who need to be tracked.

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Facebook added a new feature that has the potential to save lives.  On Tuesday, Facebook announced the arrival of a new tool that will allow people to share their status as an organ donor on their timelines.

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Forty-eight percent of the time, drivers either neglect to use their signals when changing lanes or fail to turn the signals off.
A new study finds a more serious problem than distracted driving that’s responsible for as many as 2 million accidents annually.

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Every hour a baby is born in the United States with symptoms of withdrawal from opiates.
During the last decade the U.S. has seen a sharp increase in the number of pregnant women addicted to opiate drugs and the number of babies born experiencing withdrawal symptoms as the fastest growing abuse of prescription drugs has [...]

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The Pebble
The Pebble has raised $7 million from nearly 50,000 strangers in a matter of weeks. That’s the power of a growing trend toward crowd funding, as demonstrated by the most successful Kickstarter campaign yet.