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Blood simple circuitry for cyborgs
— 30 Mar 2011 16:34 | TechnologyCould electronic components made from human blood be the key to creating cyborg interfaces? Circuitry that links human tissues and nerve cells directly to an electronic device, such…
Video skilled the students so far
— 29 Mar 2011 17:22 | TechnologyMaking a video about a scientific experiment rather than writing up a presentation poster leads to better learning and clearer understanding of the concepts underpinning the experiment…
Predicting serious drug side effects before they occur
— 29 Mar 2011 17:22 | HealthAll medications have side-effects from common aspirin to herbal remedies and from standard anticancer drugs to experimental immunosuppressants. However, predicting important side effects,…
Water for an integrative climate paradigm
— 14 Mar 2011 20:36 | EnvironmentInternational climate negotiations are deadlocked between the affluent global North and 'developing' South, between political Left and Right, and between believers and deniers. Now,…
Can bees colour maps better than ants?
— 10 Mar 2011 18:51 | BiologyIn mathematics, you need at most only four different colours to produce a map in which no two adjacent regions have the same colour. Utah and Arizona are considered adjacent, but Utah…
Build your online networks using social annotations
— 17 Feb 2011 17:30 | TechnologyResearchers at Toshiba are working on a way of finding clusters of like-minded bloggers and others online using 'social annotations.' Social annotations are the tags and keywords, the…
The international digital divide
— 9 Feb 2011 17:20 | TechnologyThe developed nations must invest in information and communications technologies (ICT) in the developing world not only the close the so-called digital divide but to encourage sustainable…
Detecting lethal diseases with rust and sand
— 31 Jan 2011 16:07 | HealthThe next big thing in medical diagnostics could be minutes particles of rust, iron oxide, coated with the material from which sand is formed, silicon dioxide. These magnetic nanoparticles,…
Thwarting attacks on cell phone mesh networks
— 21 Jan 2011 19:44 | TechnologyA Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) or cell phone mesh network uses software to transparently hook together numerous active cell phones in a location to provide greater bandwidth and better…
Converting 2-D photo into 3-D face for security applications and forensics
— 20 Jan 2011 16:22 | TechnologyIt is possible to construct a three-dimensional, 3D, face from flat 2D images, according to research published in the International Journal of Biometrics this month. The discovery could…