A mobile phone game will be used to help international students deal with “culture shock” and university life in Britain.

The game—called C-Shock—is the idea of University of Portsmouth games technology expert Nipan Maniar who, himself , arrived in the UK from India five years ago as an international student.Nipan said the game would act as a “mobile mummy” for new students . “ I found some parts of British culture very different to what I was used to in my own culture in India,”Nipan said. “ I thought it would be great to have a learning tool to help people deal with the culture shock because if you have not experienced such things before , it’s hard to know how to act properly.”

The game follows an international student arriving in the UK for the first time .The aim of the game is to reduce the character’s “culture shock” by performing a series of tasks that introduce things and pictures that are related to culture shock.

The game’s beginning is a student’s first day at university in the UK .The student is shown a map of the university and is given tasks to find certain locations.Clicking on（点击）pictures along the way warns the student about what to expect in terms of   culture shock —for example, it is acceptable for students to drink alcohol.

“ C-Shock could be used to guide students through events such as course registration and help them with basic information like getting to a bank .You could put a whole city guide into the game so the new student can settle into a new city very quickly ,”Nipan said.

The game is in the final stage of development and is expected to be download from the University of Portsmouth website later this year.

Creating meat out of thin air sounds like technology you’d only expect to see in sci-fi movies, but according to Air Protein, it’s very real and available.

Air Protein, the startup behind the air-based meat project, was founded by Dr. Lisa Dyson, a research physicist, with the goal of producing meat alternatives. These days, plant-based meat alternatives are all the fashion and are referred to as the future of the meat industry, but Air Protein is taking it to a new level with its air-sourced proteins. They are basically relying on a bunch of microbes(微生物) capable of changing CO2 into amino-acids (氨基酸), with the final product being a protein-based flour that can be used to make a bunch of meatless products.

Air Protein is the only startup currently involved in making proteins out of the air, but their technology was inspired by research that NASA carried out in the 1960s. They were trying to come up with ways that astronauts could grow their own food on space voyages and discovered these microbes, which fed on CO2 and produced amino-acids under the right circumstances.

The behind-the-scenes process is even more complicated than what Air Protein has so far revealed. The ‘magic’ happens in these giant tanks that take up much less land than both cattle which eat grass and plant-growing, and the energy comes from renewable sources. Thus, it’s both cheaper and more sustainable than other meat alternatives. Another key advantage that air-sourced protein has is production time. The protein-rich flour can be produced in days, compared to the years necessary to raise cattle and the months and resources needed to grow crops.

But is the world ready for protein produced by CO2-munching microbes? Air Protein certainly believes so, and if the current trends in the food industry are any indication, they are right to be confident. Meat alternatives are attracting important funding, and the demand from eco-conscious consumers is certainly there, so it’s just a matter of creating a good enough product.

Scientists have developed a new type of smart bandage (绷带) that can signal the type of bacterial (细菌的) infection it’s protecting, just like a traffic light, as well as release the right type of drugs on demand. The traffic light system works just like this: Green means no bacteria or a low concentration of bacteria, yellow means drug-sensitive (DS) bacteria responsive to standard antibiotics (抗生素) and causes antibiotic release, and red means drug-resistant (DR) bacteria that need extra help to be wiped out.

In testing the bandage on mice, the research team was able to successfully treat both DS and DR infections using the new method. However, the common methods of sensing resistance are limited by time, the requirement for professional personnel, and expensive instruments. Moreover, the abuse of antibiotics causes the accelerated process of bacterial resistance.

It’s easy to see how a simple bandage and light could overcome some of these limitations. Treatment doesn’t have to wait for a doctor to make a diagnosis, and the bandage can get the right sort of drugs applied at the earliest opportunity. What’s more, the person wearing the bandage gets real-time feedback on what’s happening with the infection, if there’s an infection at all. The researchers say it offers numerous benefits over existing treatments that make use of light, including photodynamic therapy or PDT.

We’ve been seeing quite a few upgrades to the traditional bandage in recent years, thanks to advances in science — like the nanofiber mesh that attracts bacteria and draws some of it out, speeding up the healing process. Then there’s the novel bandage for treating burns, which stops bacteria from multiplying and lowers the risk of infection.

The more work that a bandage can do while it’s protecting a wound, the better. Efforts to improve bandages continue and now we've got a bandage that not only releases antibiotics, but also tells the patient exactly what’s going on too.