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A robotic Cyberknife to fight cancer

As you can see above, “the CyberKnife System uses image guidance software to track and continually adjust treatment for any patient or tumor movement. This sets it far ahead of other similar treatments. It allows patients to breathe normally and relax ...

From ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE, ZDNet,  31 Dec 2008
Related Topics: BBC

Human hair to feed plants?

You all know that agricultural crop production relies on fertilizers, such as composted waste materials. But I bet you wouldn’t have thought to add human hair to animal manure to produce better and greener fertilizers. Yet, a study done by Mississippi ...

From ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE, ZDNet,  30 Dec 2008

Protecting beer from bacteria

A Canadian PhD student from the University of Saskatchewan has a mission: saving beer from bacterial contamination. She’s a member of ‘one of only two labs in the world that studies beer spoilage.’ And she jokes about what she’s doing: ‘It’s a good ...

From ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE, ZDNet,  29 Dec 2008

Toward opal-based billboards?

The figure above shows “the process of chemically transforming an opal (left) into a composite opal (middle) where the spheres and infiltrated material are colored white and green, respectively, and finally an inverse opal (right) where the spheres ...

From ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE, ZDNet,  28 Dec 2008

Batteries to store wind energy

You can see two pictures on the left. The top one represents workers lifting a battery module into place. (Credit: S&C Electric Company) The picture below is a schematic of one of these sodium-sulfur batteries. “The battery is made up of twenty ...

From ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE, ZDNet,  27 Dec 2008
Related Topics: XCEL ENERGY INC,  Scientific American

Developing hurricane-proof homes

Engineers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have developed fiber-based composite materials for low-cost residential coastal housing. Homes built with this material would be able to resist to a hurricane by bending instead of breaking. ...

From ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE, ZDNet,  26 Dec 2008

Sexy objects stimulate our brain

So how did Serences find that we’re ‘rewarding’ valuable objects? “Serences examined how value affects visual processing with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a brain-scanning technique that indirectly measures neural activity. The brain ...

From ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE, ZDNet,  25 Dec 2008

How some vegetables fight breast cancer

You certainly know that eating vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower or cabbage can help prevent breast cancer. Until now, the protection mechanism offered by these cruciferous vegetables was unknown. But researchers at the University of California ...

From ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE, ZDNet,  24 Dec 2008

Artificial intelligence to detect heart attacks?

Greek researchers have used online analytical processing (OLAP), a technique usually associated with financial and marketing analysis, to build the foundations for a heart attack calculator. Their model integrates ‘lifestyle factors including ...

From ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE, ZDNet,  23 Dec 2008

Is the LED revolution coming?

According to two professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and smart lighting could save trillions of dollars worldwide in the next ten years. They claim that innovations in photonics and solid state lighting ...

From ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE, ZDNet,  22 Dec 2008

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