With about 4.49 billion web pages on the Internet, finding academic material to plagiarize is easier than ever, allowing students to take shortcuts. A 2010 survey of 24,000 students from 70 different high schools found that 58% admitted they’d plagiarized, while a staggering 95% said that they had cheated in some form or another. However, […]
Day: September 1, 2015
The Latest Weapon in the Fight Against Superbugs: Robots
It sounds like something out of science fiction: a robot that rolls into a hospital room and zaps germs using ultraviolet light. But that’s precisely what biotechnology startup Xenex has created — and CEO Morris Miller says there’s a huge market for it. “On a daily basis we are cleaning 5,000 to 7,000 rooms,” he […]