technology

Repeats of your favourite shows can have a healing effect.

Exposure to back-lit computer screens reduces the hormone you need to sleep.

Cyberbullying is increasingly common but certain aspects of it are worse than others.

Psychologists have developed a scale to measure whether you are addicted to Facebook.

Using tablet computers may pose problems for your neck and shoulders.

Doctors may soon prescribe an app for what ails you and an app will tell you when it’s coffee time.

We all know we can do most things online. These days I opt for online shopping, online socializing, online information gathering, online bill payment….Well, now you can even have a dental check up online! You must be thinking I have lost my mind… As I discussed in my articles so far, dental diseases are largely […]

Text messaging reduces your ability to be flexible with language.

There is reason to believe that 2012 will be the year when we find another habitable planet.

Technology was initially created to make our lives easier but, as most of us have discovered, just the opposite is true. So what benefits can be gained by switching off, tuning out and dropping offline?

Australia and New Zealand have millions of unwanted and superseded electronic gadgets. Find out why the backward stance of these countries just does not compute.

As a technology for food processing, food irradiation is the exposure of food to gamma rays from a radioactive source. What are the health benefits and risk factors associated with irradiated foods?