As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania. This team is working to devise an early-warning system for train operations which makes use of [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Technology on September 11th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: infrastructure, innovation, research, sustainability
The streets of London are littered with irresponsibly discarded chewing gum. More than 30,000 pieces of gum get stuck on Oxford Street alone everyday and it costs a fortune – £150 million to be exact – to hose all of it off each year. Seeing these statistics, and perhaps because she was tired of getting [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on September 3rd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Environment, innovation, innovative
Chemotherapy has been proven an effective treatment for cancer. It is able to suppress the spread of cancer cells throughout a patient’s body by targeting and killing cells that divide rapidly. Unfortunately, the treatment also affects cells that divide rapidly under normal circumstances, such as cells in the digestive tract, bone marrow and hair follicles. [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on September 2nd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: healthcare, innovation, research, Technology
As covered by the journal “Nature,” a worldwide consortium of researchers has made a breakthrough by identifying biomarkers for heart disease. In the reported study, the consortium has identified 59 novel regions of the heart genome that are involved in lipid metabolism.
Lipid concentrations in the blood are one of the key risk factors for [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 28th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: healthcare, innovation, research
About thirty years ago, in Israel, Dr. Shaul Eger, a physiologist specializing in animal husbandry, turned to his roots to cure an otherwise fatal heart arrhythmia. The cure he found was inspired by the Jewish doctor Assaf Harofeh, or Assaf the Physician who wrote that olive oil kept mental illness and an array of other [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 27th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: healthcare, innovation, israel
Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are used to power a great number of gadgets. From digital cameras to cars, the ion storage packs are praised for their efficient energy dispensation and slow loss of charge when not in use. Now, they can be made more efficient, and affordable according to research from the US Department of [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on August 26th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: innovation, Technology
The latest contribution towards the development of clean energy was unveiled in Scotland earlier in the month. Weighing 1430 tons and sizing up at nearly 75 feet tall, the AK1000 is described as the largest tidal power turbine. Its developer, the Atlantis Resources Corporation, says that the device’s 60 foot rotors can generate one megawatt [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 25th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, energy, Environment, innovation, sustainability, Technology
A recent report from the American Red Cross, named Social Media in Disasters and Emergencies, finds that in the event of a large-scale emergency, such as the onset of a natural disaster or an accident, one in five web users would try to contact an emergency responder through digital media channels.
From July 22 to 23, [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Technology on August 24th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: communication, innovation, research, Technology
Sometimes, the quirkiest projects can open avenues into more interesting finds, such as in the case of Michael J. Haas and his dairy-to-diesel research. “It was something we wanted to show could be done,” said Michael J. Haas, a research biochemist at the United States Department of Agriculture who came up with the idea. [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 19th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, Environment, innovation, sustainability
In Israel, a scientific team led by Prof. Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute has developed a device which makes use of sniff-sensing to allow the severely disabled to communicate and even steer their wheelchair. The device works by sensing changes in air pressure in the nostrils which translates these into electrical signals for writing [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on August 12th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.