Technology

World's Most Advanced (And Most Expensive) SCRABBLE Game

Mind Sports has created arguably the most expensive and advanced tournament Scrabble system in the world. It's set to be unveiled at the Prague Mind Sports Festival next month and is a tech-lovers dream. It cost over $25,000 to produce because it uti ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2012 - 1:43pm

Reverse Dynamization Enables Healing After Massive Bone Loss

Bones are resilient and heal well after most fractures but in cases of traumatic injury, where large pieces of bone are missing, healing is much more difficult and sometimes impossible. "Large segmental defects" are a major clinical problem,  es ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2012 - 2:22pm

Elsevier Launches Leukemia Research Open Access Journal

Elsevier has launched a new open access, online journal, Leukemia Research Reports. It will publish  a range of peer-reviewed short form papers, including brief communications, case reports, letters to the editors, images and debate articles about basic a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2012 - 9:36am

Skeletal Muscle Regeneration: Muscle Engineering And Stem Cell Transplantation

A study today highlighted a new therapeutic technique to repair and rebuild muscle for sufferers of degenerative muscle disorders. The therapy brings together two existing techniques for muscle repair, cell transplantation and tissue engineering- mesoangi ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 3:38pm

Executives Think Amazon Beats Apple In Three Of Four Important Attributes

A global poll of executives found  that e-commerce giant Amazon is more admired than its Californian rival on all major supply chain attributes- except innovation.  Amazon is more respected than Apple for supply chain excellence and the Seattle-based reta ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2012 - 8:52am

Case Studies In Engineering Failure Analysis- New Open Access Journal

Elsevier has launched a new, international, open access journal, Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis.  ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2012 - 11:00am

Childhood Obesity Can Be Predicted By The Mother's Job, Says Study

An online calculator says it can predict at birth a baby's likelihood of becoming obese in childhood, according to a paper in PLOS ONE. They estimate the child's obesity risk based on its birth weight, the body mass index of the parents, the num ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2012 - 5:55pm

Do Mail Order Food Intolerance Tests Even Work?

There are lots of diagnostic tests available outside of the conventional medical system and those include tests for food intolerance, like vega testing, kinesiology, hair "body field analysis" testing, cytotoxic and live blood testing.  Doctors ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2012 - 10:40am

2012 Semantic Web Challenge Winners Announced

The winners of the 2012 Semantic Web Challenge (SWC), determined by a jury from both academia and industry, were announced at the International Semantic Web Conference held in Boston. The challenge and allocated prizes were sponsored by Elsevier.   In 200 ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2012 - 1:01pm

Can Smartphones Develop Emotional 'Intelligence'?

Apple's Siri sounds like she cares about your needs, but she is faking it.  But some research by a team of engineers shown at the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology describes a new computer program that gauges human feelings through speech w ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2012 - 11:00am