Chemotherapy is still widely used to treatcancer-- but it's far from perfect. The treatment can't tell the difference between healthy cells and cancerous ones, meaning that both are attacked. This subsequently leads to side effects such as sickness, weakness and hair loss.Now, a team at the University of Toronto has developed a "moleculardelivery system" which allows chemotherapy drugs to target unhealthy cells, minimising damage done to healthy cells.
By: Emily Reynolds,
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What's your responsive design process like? Do you feel that it's efficient? The following article is an excerpt from Ben Callahans chapter Responsive Process, first published in the Smashing Book 5 (table of contents). We've collected some useful techniques and practices from real-life responsive projects in the book and you can get your hard copy or grab the eBook today. You will not be disappointed, you know. Ed.
The successful respondent to this RFP will provide three static design options for our team to evaluate. Ive never been a huge fan of taking a multi-option design approach, but I get it sometimes a client needs this. Each of these options will provide design for three unique layouts: home page, listing page, detail page. All right. Now, were up to nine static design files. This is getting a bit out of hand.
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The Gear 360's design is clean and futuristic and comes complete with a clever tripod that converts into a handle when closed.
By: Jeremy White,
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In an effort to cut down on food wastage, Asda is selling boxes of ugly veg that are 30 percent cheaper than their more cosmetically-pleasing lines.
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It's Friday again, and I found some interesting articles for you to read over the upcoming weekend. In projects, developer, manager and product leaders still try to put pressure on the people who work on a task. Somehow they feel relieved, more secure if they do that. On the other hand, the people experiencing the pressure of urgency are struggling massively with it.
The fallacy here is that while the ones spreading the pressure feel better, the people experiencing it usually do a worse job than without the pressure. It leads to more bugs, unstructured work and, in the end, all people involved will suffer from the result. So instead, a team, which includes everyone from a developer to a manager, should focus on the purpose of the work. Give it a try, y'all, and now, enjoy your weekend!
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Not to be outdone by Sony's new PS4 firmware beta test, Microsoft's first major Xbox One software update of 2016 is rolling out to players tomorrow.
By: Matt Kamen,
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Penguins are known for their cute and distinctive waddle. A report has examined the science behind their ubiquitous gait -- and it's all to do with how fat they are.
By: Emily Reynolds,
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Earlier this year, WordPress passed the 24% mark, running almost a quarter of all websites -- and for good reason. It has a loyal user base and scores of dedicated developers who bring better features to the system year round.
This article is for those of you who either are new to WordPress or are regular users who want to learn about the best way to run a WordPress website. We'll be learning about working with domains, installing WordPress, managing content and using great plugins and themes to secure our website and make our content shine.
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The drone's wings work like artificial muscles, changing shape based on the forces they experience during flight.
By: Matt Burgess,
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Actor Peter Mayhew -- better known to fans as Chewbacca -- is posting pages from George Lucas' first draft at Star Wars.
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How much sugar is in a Starbucks Hot Mulled Fruit Grape with Chai, Orange and Cinnamon? Plus, we find out how Noma is creating the food of the future.
By: WIRED.co.uk,
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Marvel Studios and Disney have officially revealed the cast for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the follow up to 2014's surprise hit sci-fi superhero movie.
The sequel adds a surprising trio of actors to the ensemble, including one whose inclusion has been rumoured for some time. That would be arguably the biggest "name" actor to sign on, Kurt Russell. He's joined by Elizabeth Debicki, and Chris Sullivan. They join previously announced newcomer Pom Klementieff.
By: Matt Kamen,
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Congratulations - you're now eligible to call yourself a space archaeologist. This year's $1 million TED Prize is being used to create an online platform that lets anyone explore ancient sites from satellite images - while identifying archaeological looters in the process.
By: David Rowan,
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Photoshop is still a favorite among a lot of web designers, and the right tools make it even more powerful as it already is. To help you boost productivity, save time, and, obviously, nerves, we have picked some valuable Photoshop resources, plugins, and scripts for you.
Some of them will speed up routine tasks so you can concentrate more on your actual work, others build a bridge between Photoshop and code so your design mockups can benefit from the best of both worlds. All resources are free to use.
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick used the TED stage today to attack transport regulators for standing in the way of uberPOOL's mission to cut "congestion, pollution and parking" and reclaim city streets.
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As I was leading my course in responsive web design between 2011 and 2012, I kept stumbling over the process of wireframing. My students tended to focus on the wireframe as being the end game in the planning process. They didn't understand that responsive design focuses on how users will access the content.
You can only imagine my relief when I happened to come across a video by Stephen Hay speaking at the Beyond the Desktop conference in 2012. There, in his talk on responsive design, he presented the concept of the content wireframe. This was a huge relief to me. I just knew there was a step before the process got real, but I couldn't articulate it. In this post, I'll describe the methods I use to get from content to responsive wireframe -- and how you can, too.
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In May of 2015, Facebook unveiled its new in-app publishing platform, Instant Articles. A month later, Apple declared that the old Newsstand experience (essentially a fancy folder full of news apps) would be replaced in iOS 9 with a brand new news-aggregation and discovery platform called Apple News.
Four months later, it was Google's turn to announce its own, somewhat belated but no less ambitious, plan to revolutionize mobile news consumption with an open-source web-based solution called Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP. In just a few months, we've seen the relative tranquility of mobile digital publishing erupt into yet another full-scale platform war as Facebook, Apple, and now Google compete for both the loyalty of publishers and the attention of readers.
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