Technology

MisTable: Your Future Computer Monitor Could Be Made Of Mist

A new tabletop display has a personal screen made from a curtain of mist. It allows users to move images around and push through the fog-screens and onto the display. MisTable, led by Professor Sriram Subramanian and Dr Diego Martinez Plasencia from the Un ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2014 - 12:03am

In 2017, England Will Try To Stop An Ancient Tradition

In 2017, the British will introduce a new coin that should be difficult to counterfeit.  The last time a Queen Elizabeth sat on the throne they tried the same thing, to deter “divers evil persons” from damaging the reputation of English coinage and, with i ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2014 - 9:56pm

The Pulse Of Music: Making People The Instrument

Live electronic music is an oxymoron. Clearly if you have hired Paris Hilton as a deejay, you are not hiring her because she is any sort of keen ear. If she never showed up, the music would go on. University of British Columbia music professor Bob Pritchar ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2014 - 1:11pm

Popular Medical Websites Too Complex When It Comes To Colon Cancer- Analysis

 A review of a dozen popular websites found that information on colorectal cancer is too difficult for most lay people to read and doesn't address the appropriate risks to and concerns of patients. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2014 - 1:40pm

Regenerated Esophagus Successfully Transplanted Into Rat

A research team led by Paolo Macchiarini, MD, PhD at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has successfully transplanted a regenerated esophagus into a rat using a bioreactor developed by Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology (HART), a spin-off of Harvard Bi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 3:16pm

Herding Cells With Electrcity Could Lead To Smart Bandages

Researchers have used an electrical current to orchestrate the flow of a group of cells, an achievement that could establish the basis for more controlled forms of tissue engineering and for potential applications such as "smart bandages" that us ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 2:09pm

Is Nick Szabo The Creator Of Bitcoin? Linguists Say They Have The Answer

A recent Newsweek article claimed that the mystery of the brains behind Bitcoin had been solved- and Dorian S. Nakamoto was the guy. The primary author of the celebrated cryptocurrency Bitcoin paper has remained unknown. Bitcoin is an Internet-based virtua ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 10:35am

Artificial Intelligence Programs Go Head To Head

Most academics don't like competition but in the field of artificial intelligence, everyone wants to square off against the best in their discipline. In June, the International Planning Competition held every two years will take place in  New Hampshir ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2014 - 11:02am

EyeBox CNS- National Space Biomedical Research Institute Funds Eye Tracking Technology

The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), based at Baylor College of Medicine, is a consortium of biomedical institutions that study the health risks related to long-duration spaceflight and developing the technologies and countermeasures n ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 6:30am

ReferralPlus Increases Match Rate For Clinical Trial Volunteers By Over 66%

ReferralPlus is a tool to match patients who disqualify for one study with others they might qualify for, using a geo-therapeutic matching algorithm with other studies, similar to how OpenTable matches people with the restaurants they are interested in by ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 8:00am