Monitoring Movement Through Sound
Children and adults hitting virtual baseballs and throwing punches at TV screens have become a common sight, thanks to video…
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Who’s Calling?
The call comes into the White House switchboard and the voice on the other end of the line hisses: “The…
Upstarts
Tackling Blindness A new drug-delivery strategy for vision loss, particularly effective in diabetic patients and the elderly, is closer to…
Powering the Grid
Batteries and other energy storage could ease many of the woes currently faced by our power grid, notes Dennice Gayme,…
A Difficult Ding–Made Easier
Learning a neue language can be a difficult Ding, but drei Professoren in the Department of Computer Science and the…
A Vial Solution for TB
Health care workers who treat tuberculosis in developing nations diagnose the disease through an observation test. They smear a sample…
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“Conformity is ‘doubly hard’ to beat—it can obviously happen when people imitate one another, but it can also set in…
Tech Tools
A Safer Suit Health care workers battling Ebola on the front lines in West Africa work in oppressive heat and…
Battling Brain Cancer with Nanofibers
Glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer, is always fatal and kills its victims within months. Surgery, which is the…