In other words, it should stop an acute reaction in its tracks. While many of us may have irritating allergic reactions to things like wool or cats, it can be a much different story for [...]

The goal is to help doctors make better predictions about how a patient’s illness will progress and what type of treatment will be most effective. Storing music and photos on distant computers via “cloud” technology [...]

TechJect is looking to raise $110,000 via indigogo by the time the calendar ticks over to 2013. Given their impressive flight capabilities, it’s not surprising to see researchers turning to the world of flying insects [...]

India has become the focal point for a mosquito-borne plague that is sweeping the globe. An epidemic of dengue fever in India is fostering a growing sense of alarm even as government officials here have publicly refused to acknowledge [...]

Aguilar suggests that a future version of the device might have a Geiger counter to get initial readings on suspected radioactive areas. A CLUMP of cameras, electronics and LEDs packed into a rubber shell the [...]

This discovery opens the door to a great deal of applications Controlling and modifying at will the transparency, electrical properties, and stiffness of a gel – such are the promises of a new discovery by [...]

Future research projects include optimized routing, road hazard reporting, optimized de-icing, beacon for at-risk pedestrians, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication to enhance rear signaling. Someday, your auto and the roadway will be in constant communication and able [...]

The Mayor’s Challenge is a contest run by Bloomberg Philanthropies to find the best ideas bubbling out of our cities–from data mining to turning foreclosed houses into urban farms. It’s a theme that we’ve touched [...]

Why spend billions on restringing, burying, or waterproofing power lines?  True post-storm resilience lies in onsite renewable energy. Last week, 8.5 million people in the Northeast lost power, most for days, due to Hurricane Sandy. [...]

WORLD’S FIRST NEURAL-CONTROLLED BIONIC LEG In a historic climb, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) research subject, Zac Vawter, will climb 103 floors of the Willis Tower using the first “Bionic Leg”, a neural-controlled prosthetic leg [...]

The Navy could save approximately 300 to 400 million dollars a year With its strong dependence on gas-turbine engines for propulsion, the U.S. Navy is always looking for ways to improve the fuel consumption of [...]

Internet voting for American citizens is exceedingly dangerous. That’s the opinion of David Jefferson, acomputer scientist and chairman of Verified Voting, an election watchdog group based in Carlsbad, Calif. “I consider voting security to be a national-security issue,” [...]