Technology

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

Nifty Shades Of Grey- 3D Printing Finds Its Sweet Spot

A 'less is more' approach is not only making 3-D printed parts lighter and stronger, but faster and more economical. A new technique under development is high speed sintering (HSS). Unlike commercial 3-D printers that use lasers, HSS marks the sh ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2014 - 2:52pm

No, Digital Natives Are Not Clueless About Protecting Their Privacy Online

Snooping is not allowed. Credit: Paul Walsh, CC BY-NC-SA By Grant Blank, University of Oxford ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 12 2014 - 3:52pm

Minecraft Purchase Is The First Building Block In Microsoft’s New Strategy

Rebuilding Microsoft one block at a time.Credit: animeareftw, CC BY-NC-ND By Mark Skilton, University of Warwick Just as the game Minecraft sees players build their virtual world block by block, Satya Nadella’s bid for its parent company is his first soli ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 12 2014 - 5:00pm

The Keys May Be On Your Fingertips, But That Doesn't Mean Biometric Locks Can't Be Picked

Keys at your fingertips, but the technology isn't there yet. Credit: Rachmaninoff, CC BY-SA By Andrew Smith, The Open University How can we ensure that someone is who they say they are? How can be sure that the person in our system, both digitally sp ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 14 2014 - 8:00am

NuQ Blood Test Detects 84% Of Colorectal Cancers

Data from an initial representative 938-subject sample of  a 4,800-subject colorectal cancer trial at Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen demonstrated that the NuQ® blood-based diagnostic platform  is able to correctly diagnose 84% of colorectal cancers, includi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2014 - 8:00am