An electronic system developed by Aura Ganz, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, allows visually impaired people to safely navigate unfamiliar buildings using a three-ounce ...
Engineering
Dec 16, 2010
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Restricting calories extends life and slows a range of age-related disorders in mice, rats and other organisms. But even after eight decades of research on the subject, scientists are still unclear just how caloric restriction ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 16, 2010
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New technologies developed by NASA and other agencies are revealing surprising insights into a major earthquake that rocked parts of the American Southwest and Mexico in April, including increased potential for more large ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2010
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(AP) -- The content-sharing site Delicious may not be on Yahoo Inc.'s shrinking menu of online services much longer.
Business
Dec 16, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments.
Space Exploration
Dec 16, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Wind turbines seem to be sprouting up all over the Midwestern landscape lately, providing a clean source of renewable energy. Now, Stephen Dinsmore, associate professor of natural resource ecology and management, ...
Ecology
Dec 16, 2010
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Apple is planning a January 6 opening for an online shop stocked with software applications that add entertaining or functional features to the firm's Macintosh computers.
Software
Dec 16, 2010
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NASA will run a series of fuel tank tests on the shuttle Discovery Friday to see if repairs have successfully fixed a series of cracks that have thwarted the mission's final run to space.
Space Exploration
Dec 16, 2010
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There's a whale of a new display at the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History, a leviathan that represents a scientific saga of equally grand proportions.
Archaeology
Dec 16, 2010
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Two satellite instruments aboard NASA's Solar Radiation & Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission -- the Total Solar Irradiance Monitor (TIM) and the Solar Irradiance Monitor (SIM) -- have made daily measurements of the sun's ...
Space Exploration
Dec 16, 2010
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