Technology

Heat For Sore Joints- Now In A Flexible Mesh

If you suffer from chronic muscle pain a doctor will likely recommend for you to apply heat to the injury, but how do you wrap that heat around a joint? A team has come up with therapeutic heat in a light, flexible design.  Other teams have come up with si ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2015 - 11:30am

Genomics- The Biggest Of Big Data

Each cell in the body contains a whole genome, 3 billion of "letters" known as bases, so the data packed into a few DNA molecules could fill an entire hard drive. Instead of having one reference genome for study, more and more people are having ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2015 - 6:56am

How Accurate Are Symptom Checkers?

Hundreds of millions of times every year many of us turn to online symptom checkers to try to self-diagnose our symptoms and to get advice on whether we should seek further medical care or just rest at home until we feel better. But how good is the inform ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2015 - 2:52pm

Stairs: How 3-D Printing Helped Robots Tackle Their Greatest Obstacle

We’ve long attempted to recreate living creatures in robot form. From very early age of robotics, there has been attempts to reproduce systems similar to human arms and hands. This has been extended to flexible and mobile platforms reproducing different a ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 12 2015 - 8:00am

Muon: Electron’s Heavy Cousin Could Help Detect Damaged Pipes

By Charles Choi, Inside Science- Of all the parts of the nation's infrastructure that one might want least to fail, nuclear power plants might rank the highest. ...

Article - Charles Choi - Jul 13 2015 - 11:00am

Ultrasound Accelerates Skin Healing

Healing times for skin ulcers and bedsores can be reduced by a third with the use of low-intensity ultrasound- ultrasound transmits a vibration through the skin and wakes up cells in wounds helping to stimulate and accelerate the healing process.  More th ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2015 - 10:00am

Using Drones For Better Crops

A study carried out by researchers from Robotics and Cybernetics Research Group (RobCib) at Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR) has used a drone to measure the temperature, humidity, luminosity and carbon dioxide concentration in a greenhouse. The cap ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2015 - 3:56pm

Aerosolized Vaccine Protects Primates Against Ebola

Researchers have developed an inhalable vaccine that protects primates against Ebola.  Previous studies with primates suggest that aerosols of most biothreat agents, which are particles dispersed in the air, are infectious. Recent studies show that contac ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2015 - 8:30am

Flash Is A Dead Plugin

After more than 20 years making the web a slightly more interesting and interactive place, albeit one that pandered to designers’ worst excesses and (in pre-broadband days) led to interminable download waiting times, the word on the net is that Adobe Flas ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 18 2015 - 6:04am

Breathing Windows: Decentralized Ventilation Building Features

Centralized ventilation systems that exchange heat between the air inside and outside a building often come with a lot of pipes and shafts while compact, decentralized ventilation systems distributed throughout a building can provide a real added-value bot ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2015 - 8:30am