Researchers Devise X-ray Approach to Track Surgical Devices and Minimize Radiation Exposure
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have developed a new tool to help surgeons...
Smartphone way to lose weight
Your smartphone could be a key tool to losing weight according to scientists at the University of Leeds. Their study is the first to...
Researchers morph ordinary skin cells into functional brain cells
Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have discovered a technique that directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed...
Wireless "Smart Skin" Sensors Could Provide Remote Monitoring of Infrastructure
Major bridge failures in recent years have focused attention on the need to monitor America’s highway bridges and other infrastructure. As thousands of bridges,...
New technology adopted to improve bladder cancer detection
The Keck Medical Center of USC is the only health care provider in the western United States to offer blue light cystoscopy, a new...
New tool promises private photo sharing
In the next five minutes, roughly a half-million photos will be shared online.
Embarrassing or not, many are only intended for a certain audience —...
Brain scans reveal first objective measure of physical pain
For the first time, scientists have identified how much pain people feel by looking at images of their brains.
The findings, published in the New...
Your next phone camera might be able to sense depth
The camera in your smartphone may soon have a new trick: depth perception. Toshiba, Samsung and Silicon Valley startup Pelican Imaging are developing image...
Eyeglasses read to the blind
A unique pair of eyeglasses developed by an FIU student team could revolutionize the lives of the blind, enabling them to walk into a...
Discovery points to new approach to fight dengue virus
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have discovered that rising temperature induces key changes in the dengue virus when it enters its human host, and...