In emergency care every second counts. LifeBot, the telemedicine unit that connects ambulances to hospitals with patient data and live video feeds, has just...
At the giant electronics convention, CES 2011, Samsung showed off their flexible AMOLED displays to great fanfare. Soon after, rumors ran rampant flexible displays would be...
In 1996, Jan Scheuermann was diagnosed with spinocerebellar degeneration, a hereditary condition in which areas of the spinal cord and brain that control movement...
Why do we love the annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition? Because it gathers art, science, and technology into one tiny room and reminds...
Headed to Tennessee a decade from now? If you're a Hubber, you might consider demoting Graceland. Star Wars geek extraordinaire, Chris Lee, is building...
Europe certainly believes in the promise of stem cells.
A joint public-private collaboration between the European Union and Europe’s pharmaceutical industry, called the StemBANCC project,...
Every Earth Day, we're reminded that though common petroleum-based plastics are durable and cheap, many aren't biodegradable or recycled. This accounts for the 72...
In the graphic novel The Watchmen, the physicist Jon Osterman is vaporized in an experiment and comes back as the god-like Doctor Manhattan after meticulously...
On Sunday’s episode of the Emmy award-winning show Homeland, the Vice President of the United States is assassinated by a group of terrorists that...
Technological innovation and the ubiquity of smartphones continue to combine to enable diagnostics outside of the traditional healthcare setting. AliveCor is an electrocardiogram monitor...
Just before closing out an exciting year, Singularity University (SU) has made yet another announcement -- the acquisition of the Singularity Summit, one of the premier annual...
On the brink of a health information revolution that promises to offer round-the-clock body monitoring and personalized medicine, the medical implant company Medtronic has...
Having been modeled after a variety of organisms (or their parts), robots come in all shapes and sizes but researchers at MIT now report that they've...
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is conducting a 12-month, $25 million study to see if cars sending data to each other over Wi-Fi can make...
