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Laura Shin
Laura Shin
Contributing Editor
Laura Shin has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times, and is currently a contributor at Forbes. Previously, she worked at Newsweek, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LearnVest. She holds degrees from Stanford University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Laura Shin
In the unlikely event that Laura has a professional or financial relationship with a company she writes about, it will be prominently disclosed.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Rose Eveleth
Rose Eveleth
Contributing Editor
Rose Eveleth is a freelance writer, producer and designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, OnEarth, Discover, New York Times, Story Collider and Radiolab. She holds degrees from the University of California, San Diego and New York University.
Rose Eveleth
Rose does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
she writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Archive: 09-2011
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Doctors use ecstasy to treat PTSD
Ecstasy could be used to treat trauma victims.
September 30, 2011, 8:26 PM PDT | By Boonsri Dickinson
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Do you make better decisions when you need to urinate?
Decision-making when you have to pee … beetles that have sex with beer bottles … wasabi-spraying fire alarm systems … and more from the “21th” annual Ig Nobel Awards....
September 29, 2011, 8:25 PM PDT | By Laura Shin
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Coming soon: Robots in the sky that recognize and track you
Developing technologies will make drones more adept at recognizing the faces of specific individuals and understanding their intent — even from afar.
September 28, 2011, 7:55 PM PDT | By Laura Shin
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Send secret messages with genetically-engineered bacteria
Researchers at Tufts University encoded messages in E. coli using fluorescent bacteria.
September 28, 2011, 2:36 PM PDT | By Boonsri Dickinson
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Video: Three consumer health apps that you should know about
Companies show-off the latest in mobile health tech for consumers at the Health 2.0 conference Monday in San Francisco. SmartPlanet blogger Boonsri Dickinson shows you three apps that caught her eye.
September 27, 2011, 7:14 PM PDT | By Boonsri Dickinson
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WellnessFX launches with a platform that can help you lead a healthier life
Now you can manage your health online, through a service called WellnessFX which aims to serve as a dashboard into your health. WellnessFX launches tomorrow at the Health 2.0 conference in San...
September 26, 2011, 9:26 AM PDT | By Boonsri Dickinson
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Video: Man uses fish poo, sensors to grow garden
A man from Kenya finds that he’d like to bring some farming to Oakland, so he hooks up sensors to his plants and nourishes his garden with fish excrement.
September 25, 2011, 4:00 AM PDT | By Boonsri Dickinson
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Video: Mind-reading tech reconstructs moving images others see
For the first time ever, scientists used brain imaging to determine what moving images a person is seeing.
September 22, 2011, 8:26 PM PDT | By Laura Shin
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Scientists measure particles moving faster than light
Scientists at the world’s largest physics lab say they have measured subatomic particles called neutrinos that travel faster than light. If true, it would put into question Albert...
September 22, 2011, 4:40 PM PDT | By Boonsri Dickinson
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Proton-based computer chip can talk to living things
Researchers designed a proton-based transistor that could let machines talk with living things.
September 22, 2011, 4:19 AM PDT | By Boonsri Dickinson