Technology

Singular Value Decomposition Method Increases Accuracy Of Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis

Nearly anyone touched by ovarian cancer will tell you that almost 80 percent of patients reach advanced stages before diagnosis and that most patients are expected to die within five years. One quarter of women diagnosed have no warning that they are resi ...

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

No Batteries Required- New Camera Runs Forever

A research team has created a prototype video camera that is fully self-powered. Solar panels and digital cameras obviously have different purposes- one converts light to power while the other simply measures it- but both are constructed from essentially ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2015 - 4:12pm

Spinning Objects: A Process for Controlling Self-modifying Systems

I used to work with a programming language called Business Basic.  It was descended through several generations from the original Dartmouth BASIC.  Like all primitive 3rd generation languages early Business Basic languished in the era of line numbered sou ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Apr 16 2015 - 12:46am

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