Need for Speed
The Internet has revolutionized the flow of information beyond anyone’s prediction, but to Yair Amir, a professor of computer science…
Impact
Getting Creative in the Face of Disaster
Stemming the cascade of catastrophe that occurs when an earthquake, hurricane, flood, or other disaster strikes a community is the…
Upstarts
Tracking Epilepsy Sridevi Sarma, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was educated as an electrical engineer, and…
Modeling Metastasis
It’s not the tumor, but cancer’s spread to other organs that kills. Fully understanding metastasis holds the key to halting…
Tech Tools
Surer Probe Doctors use ultrasound to guide needles into the body. But the hand-eye coordination required to reach the target…
Deciphering the Data in Parkinson’s
By the time symptoms arise in many neurodegenerative diseases, much of the damage has already been done. If only researchers…
Pinpointing Cystic Fibrosis Severity
Cystic fibrosis, an inherited chronic disease linked to the CFTR gene, affects some 30,000 Americans. Today, their average life expectancy…
Trending
“I’m kind of expecting to see that they’ll be after our refrigerators once they go on the Internet.” 4/30/14, ABC2…
Sleuthing Subs
Much of the drinking water for arid Phoenix, Arizona, comes from expansive Lake Pleasant, and monitoring water quality is a…