A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
A Stone Age semester
Rice anthropology class teaches students what it was like to live in the Stone Age HOUSTON – In the popular cartoon "The Flintstones," Fred Flintstone and his best friend, Barney Rubble, dine out, listen to…
Nicotine vaccine that may combat cigarette smoking and…
[caption id="attachment_6805" align="alignright" width="270"] Xinyuan Chen, an assistant professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences at URI’s College of Pharmacy, holds the patch he developed to deliver a powdered nicotine vaccine next to a traditional hypodermic…
Richard B. Kaner selected as 2015 MRS Medalist
University of California, Los Angeles, Distinguished Professor honored for synthesizing methods [caption id="attachment_6802" align="alignright" width="189"] Richard B. Kaner, University of California, Los Angeles[/caption] WARRENDALE, PA – Richard B. Kaner, University of California, Los Angeles, has been…
Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost
Mathematical modeling enables $100 depth sensor to approximate the measurements of a $100,000 piece of lab equipment. [caption id="attachment_6799" align="alignnone" width="599"] MIT researchers have developed a new biomedical imaging system that harnesses an off-the-shelf depth…