| Experimental interplanetary Internet used to test robot from International Space Station Nov 8th 2012, 20:18 NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully have used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet to control an educational rover from the International Space Station. The experiment used NASA's Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to transmit messages and demonstrate technology that one day may enable Internet-like communications with space vehicles and support habitats or infrastructure on another planet. |  | Setting national goals to bolster patient safety with electronic health records Nov 8th 2012, 01:00 Electronic health records are expected to improve patient safety, but they themselves can present challenges for which health care providers must be prepared. Experts have proposed a framework to help develop new national patient safety goals unique to electronic health record-enabled clinical settings. | | Setting national goals to bolster patient safety with electronic health records Nov 8th 2012, 01:00 Electronic health records are expected to improve patient safety, but they themselves can present challenges for which health care providers must be prepared. Experts have proposed a framework to help develop new national patient safety goals unique to electronic health record-enabled clinical settings. | | Dealing with power outages more efficiently Nov 7th 2012, 13:56 When there is a power failure, the utility companies, public officials and emergency services must work together quickly. Researchers have created a new planning software product that enables all participants to be better prepared for emergency situations. | | Privacy vs. protection: Study considers how to manage epidemics in information blackouts Nov 1st 2012, 21:19 When foot-and-mouth disease swept through the British countryside in early 2001, more than 10 million sheep, cattle and pigs were slaughtered to control the disease. Despite the devastation, the disease was contained within ten months in part owing to the availability in that country of finely detailed farm data, which enabled mathematical modelers to make accurate predictions about the spread of the disease and suggest optimal ways of managing it. | | Tree of life branches out online Oct 16th 2012, 21:31 Exploring the evolutionary tree of life is now as easy as navigating an online map, thanks to a new interactive website called OneZoom. | | Light might prompt graphene devices on demand Oct 10th 2012, 18:14 A breakthrough in plasmonics could allow the creation of on-demand electronic devices on graphene by hitting the material with light of a particular wavelength or at a certain angle. | | Mine your business: Text mining insights from social media Oct 10th 2012, 18:14 Thanks to blogs, online forums, and product review sites, companies and marketers now have access to a seemingly endless array of data on consumers' opinions and experiences. In principle, businesses should be able to use this information to gain a better understanding of the general market and of their own and their competitors' customers. | | Greenhouse gas emissions mapped to building, street level for U.S. cities Oct 9th 2012, 16:16 Researchers have developed a new software system capable of estimating greenhouse gas emissions across entire urban landscapes, all the way down to roads and individual buildings. Until now, scientists quantified carbon dioxide emissions at a much broader level. "Hestia" combines extensive public database "data-mining" with traffic simulation and building-by-building energy-consumption modeling. | | A system to automate traffic fines Oct 9th 2012, 14:21 Researchers in Spain have designed a system that automates the administrative sanctioning process by applying communication and information technologies to traffic flow and using sensors built into vehicles. | | Computational intelligence opens up new avenues in Alzheimer's research Oct 9th 2012, 14:16 Researchers have used machine learning and data mining techniques to compare gene expresssion levels in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients in two key regions of the hippocampus: the dentate gyrus, where the disease appears to have little or no effect, and the entorhinal cortex, where Alzheimer's disease produces major neuronal damage. The results corroborate previous findings by other studies and set forth new working hypotheses for AD research. | |
