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The device, called Active Alarm, detects the alarm and shuts off power to the stove Some very creative young minds took the top prize at one of the state’s most coveted college business idea competitions. More than 2,000 students from 14 college campuses across the state competed in the annual Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, but three

We will do our best to match you with the appropriate researcher and project   The Lowell Amateur Research Initiative (LARI) is looking to engage the ever-growing and technically sophisticated amateur astronomy community in some exciting research projects with astronomers at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. LARI brings together professional and amateur astronomers in

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have found a simple way to grow muscle tissue with real muscle structure in the laboratory. They found that the muscle cells automatically align themselves if they are subjected to tension in one direction — this is essential for the ability of the muscle cells to exert a

The first dengue vaccine candidate (CYD-TDV) to reach phase 3 clinical testing has shown moderate protection (56%) against the disease in Asian children, according to new research published in The Lancet. Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that infects around 390 million people each year, of whom about 96 million suffer from symptomatic infection. WHO estimates

A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Tacoma has developed a novel platform to diagnose infectious disease at the point-of-care, using a smartphone as the detection instrument in conjunction with a test kit in the format of a credit card. The group is led by Illinois Electrical and

Image via Wikipedia Miele has announced its new smart grid ready domestic appliances at IFA 2010. These appliances have been designed to start automatically when electricity is cheapest, offering consumers energy savings. The first two appliances featuring smart-grid functionality will be a washing machine and a tumble dryer. The models can also be fitted with

Sitti and Yim wanted to engineer an active robotic capsule that could be controlled while inside the gastrointestinal tract. When someone mentions robots, popular representations such as R2-D2, Wall-E, or the Terminator may come to mind. But what if scientists could make robots so tiny they could navigate inside the human body? Metin Sitti, Carnegie

A tiny implantable pacemaker as a pinhead is all set to revolutionise medicine world with its big advantage. Powered by radio waves from outside the body, the device does not need any battery to operate. The invention by Stanford University engineers could lead to a host of new medical sensors that could run without batteries.

Indicators is a widely-used resource, reporting on R&D trends, the STEM workforce, and more. The United States’ (U.S.) predominance in science and technology (S&T) eroded further during the last decade, as several Asian nations–particularly China and South Korea–rapidly increased their innovation capacities. According to a report released today by the National Science Board (NSB), the policy