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Could better Point of Sale (POS) technology help your restaurant stay on top of employee theft? According to a new survey, it could be. Previously, National Restaurant Association research has indicated that restaurants and other food service operators experience unusually high levels of internal employee theft. According to a paper titled "Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology Monitoring on Employee Theft and Productivity" published by professors at MIT, Brigham Young University, and Washington University, POS technology could potentially solve this industry-wide problem. Their study, using restaurant guard technology that monitors employee interactions with POS systems, found that not only were losses reversed, but restaurants actually experienced greater profit beyond...

In a groundbreaking study published this week in Science Translational Medicine, researchers say that a low-powered laser could be the key to creating new tooth growth. In the lab, the Harvard-led team were able to use lasers to "turn on" a natural healing cycle, which caused dentin to regrow inside teeth. This technology could allow a cavity to essentially "fill itself" back in with healhy tooth tissue, or enable a broken tooth to regrow again.Although the technology has only been tested on rats so far, it is possible that human clinical trials could begin within the year. "There's potential for this to be broadly useful," says David Mooney, the paper's senior author and a Harvard University bioengineer. If the approach works, the implications stretch beyond just avoiding the “drilling an...