Technology

New Cancer-Hunting 'Nano-Robots' To Seek And Destroy Tumors

Nano-robots have cancer in their sights. Credit: StephenMitchell/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Dr. Jason Liu, Monash University It sounds like a scene from a science fiction novel – an army of tiny weaponized robots traveling around a human body, hunting down ma ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 1 2014 - 1:00pm

Battery-Less Pacemaker Works Like An Automatic Wristwatch- Powered By Heart Motion

A new battery-less cardiac pacemaker is based on the automatic wristwatch concept- it is powered by heart motion. The prototype device  presented at ESC Congress 2014 by Adrian Zurbuchen from Switzerland does not require battery replacement. Zurbuchen is ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2014 - 7:00am

You Are Ready To Eat Insects If You Have These Characteristics

Are you in the target market to eat insects? The easiest uptake will be by a young male who claims to care more about the environment, believes they are progressive and adventurous about food, and already doesn't care about meat.  Matching those crite ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2014 - 9:18am

Off the Road with Polish Rover Team

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Sep 2 2014 - 5:58pm

American Politics: Old Media Losing Role As Gatekeepers To Twitter

The Obama administration opened up a new front in the culture wars by creating a stunning social media campaign to get out the vote, and they have leveraged new media since; only one internal photographer gets to take pictures, for example, and those pict ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2014 - 9:17am

Donald Spector: The Most Prolific Living Inventor You've Never Heard Of

Donald Spector is Chairman of New York College and just received Patent# 8,823,512 for a Wearable Biosensor, which he is donating to the college. The Wearable Biosensor patent predates the patents of the industry's leading technology companies, making ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 9:48pm

Spider Limb Positioner: Surgical Aid Gets A New Use In Bone Cancer Surgery

An ortho-oncology team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center successfully adapted a shoulder surgical aid, the Spider Limb Positioner, to conduct a left hip disarticulation on a melanoma patient.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 8:30am

You Can't Have Science 2.0 Without Statistics- Or Big Data Either

Statistics- learning from data and of measuring, controlling and communicating uncertainty- has become important to science and it is vital to the future of science, Science 2.0. Over the last 200 years, and certainly with the advent of large-scale computi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 11:30am

Wireless For Miles, By Leveraging Unused UHF TV Spectrum

VFH and UFH portions of the radio spectrum are reserved for over the air television broadcasts and the FCC keeps plenty of space between channels to prevent interference. But unused UHF TV spectrum could be used for fat streams of data over wireless hotsp ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 6:31pm

Safety Of New Hip And Knee Implants 'Could Be Compromised'

Since the failures of some metal on metal hip implants were brought to light, the introduction of new joint implants has been the focus of major scientific and policy discussions, but regulation 'requires major overhaul,' say a group of experts, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 6:26pm