Technology

NailO: Your Thumb As A Miniature Wireless Track Pad

A new wearable device turns the user’s thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad, which could let users control wireless devices when their hands are full or enable subtle communication in circumstances that require it, such as sending a quick text to ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2015 - 8:00am

How To Pitch A Good Research Idea

In the private sector, pitching a research idea is a relatively straight-forward proposition. Drug companies, for example, know that only 1 out of 5,000 research programs is going to make it to market. Have a good idea and it will get approved. In governme ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2015 - 3:23pm

Trauma: Universal Donor Plasma Feasible, Can Save Lives

A recent randomized trial looked at the feasibility of 2013 guidelines issued by the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Project for trauma resuscitation and found that delivering universal donor plasma to massively hemorrhaging patien ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2015 - 2:15pm

Perfusion System Could Revolutionize The Organ Donation Time Window

While growing new organs from a patient's own stem cells is the future much of science is working toward, there are people who need replacements right now. Lots of people are signed up for organ donations in the case of death but willing donors is not ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2015 - 7:36am

Feel The Game- Hands Omni Tactile Glove Brings Touch To Virtual Environments

Forget vibrating joysticks on your Xbox, Rice University engineers have invented a glove that allows a user to feel what they're touching while gaming. The Hands Omni provides a way for gamers and others to feel the environments they inhabit through t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2015 - 1:01pm

Genetic Test Can Prevent Killer Bees Around The Globe

A genetic test that can prevent 'killer' bees from spreading around the world has been created in a new research effort. Africanized honeybees are highly aggressive and very difficult to manage relative to European honeybees used by Canadian and ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2015 - 8:20am

Sensation Of Invisibility Created In The Lab

We've long been fascinated by but it has been fictional. Now a team of researchers has created a perceptual illusion of having an invisible body. You won't just 'feel' invisible like no one notices you in a crowd, you can actually feel ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2015 - 9:21am

Are Insects The Future Of Food?

At first my meal seems familiar, like countless other dishes I’ve eaten at Asian restaurants. A swirl of noodles slicked with oil and studded with shredded chicken, the aroma of ginger and garlic, a few wilting chives placed on the plate as a final flouri ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Apr 27 2015 - 8:00am

LAWS And The Autonomy Of Killer Robots

The future of lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) – often referred to in the popular press as “killer robots” – remains uncertain following a week-long meeting in Geneva to discuss their legality. While the LAWS debate in Geneva was deeper and richer ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 26 2015 - 8:00am

Autonomous Self-Powered Liquid Metal Vehicles: Cue Rise Of The Machines Music

Autonomous locomotion for a macroscopic liquid metal machine has been made self-actuated when fueled with aluminum (Al) flake and now a much larger liquid metal machine has been made possible. It can autonomously move and accelerate with an increase in te ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2015 - 8:39am