insert_link Tech Made Simple The new Engage Game Boy is an experiment in “Sustainable Gaming” The original Game Boy from 1989 was an iconic handheld console but, as anyone who owned one will tell you, it required a steady stream of batteries to keep running. Now, a team of researchers at Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology have developed a new take on the classic console, replacing its array of four AA batteries with a set of five rows of solar panels and buttons that harvest power […] todaySeptember 9, 2020
insert_link Health & Wellness Could Childhood Obesity Come Down to Mind over Matter? Weight gain occurs when an individual's energy intake exceeds their energy expenditure -- in other words, when calories in exceed calories out. What is less well understood is the fact that, on average, nearly half of the body's energy is used by the brain during early childhood. In a new paper published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), "A hypothesis linking the energy demand […] todayJune 27, 2019
insert_link Food & Drink Food Allergy? Phooey! More than one in 10 adults has a food allergy, but nearly one in five think they do, according to a new survey. The survey, administered by NORC at the University of Chicago in 2015 through 2016 was completed by 40,443 U.S. adults and aimed to provide national estimates of the "distribution, severity and factors associated with adult food allergy." Researchers estimated that 10.8 percent of Americans had one or […] todayJanuary 25, 2019
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