Engineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards, forest fires, and other places too perilous for people...
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT        Read more......

Virtual characters can behave according to actions carried out unconsciously by humans. Researchers at the University of Barcelona have created a system which measures human physiological parameters, such as respiration or heart rate, and introduces them into computer designed characters in real time...
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT        Read more......

Sociologist Ms Lucía Merino presented her PhD thesis entitled, Digital natives: a study of the technological socialisation of young people, at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Considering that young people nowadays are natives of the so-called digital culture, Ms Merino explored their relationship with the new technologies and how they learn and socialise through them...
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT        Read more......

Prompted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has come up with a new way of predicting how contaminants like oil will spread. He was able to forecast several days in advance that oil from that spill would wash ashore in particular parts of the Gulf of Mexico...
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT        Read more......

Using two of the planet's largest, creative online communities -- World of Warcraft gamers and Etsy artists -- as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive, networked collaborations could benefit scientists, corporations and the very IT designers who facilitated the success of the two online communities...
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:00 PDT        Read more......

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that Cincinnati and Detroit are the two final pilot communities selected under the new Beacon Community Program that is using health information technology to help tackle leading health problems in communities across the country...
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT        Read more......

Banner Health and Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI) jointly announce Banner Health's system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow® SET technology. The system-wide conversion ensures that patients visiting any Banner Health hospital will be cared for using the most technologically and clinically-advanced oximetry and noninvasive patient monitoring solutions available...
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT        Read more......

The Turek Clinic, founded by men's reproductive health pioneer, Paul Turek, MD, unveiled a new website dedicated to educating men on sexual health and male fertility problems. The site is designed to be an educational tool on topics ranging from vasectomy and reversal to sperm retrieval and testicular mapping, a minimally invasive procedure pioneered by Dr...
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT        Read more......

Webmedx, the third largest medical transcription service provider in the U.S. and a premier supplier of speech recognition and quality analytics technology, reinforced their commitment to quality and patient safety by announcing important changes to their quality assurance processes and procedures for transcribed and speech-generated reports...
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT        Read more......

Scientists have long thought that social networks, which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produces large-scale changes most quickly...
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT        Read more......