Technology

Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley

One evening, during the drearily sodden summer of 1816, Lord Byron and his friends read  Fantasmagoriana, a French translation of a German book of ghost stories (they were intellectuals after all) in his Villa Diodati in Switzerland (they were rich intell ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Aug 31 2014 - 8:27am

Tiny Implanted Sensor And Your Smartphone Could Help Prevent Blindness

Checking for glaucoma. Image credit: communityeyehealth,  CC BY-NC By David Crabb, City University London Scientists have proposed a way to monitor glaucoma using a tiny device implanted in the eye. Readings from the device could be monitored by a smartph ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 1 2014 - 9:17am

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