A force-feedback steering wheel. It’s quite literally the stuff of racing games, and AT&T labs, along with Carnegie Mellon, is researching the possibly of throwing similar tech into your real-world whip. MIT’s Technology Review recently highlighted the project, which uses 20 vibrating actuators shoved inside of a steering wheel to create a variety of patterns — a counter-clockwise sequence [...]
An ambitious experiment created by Harvard economist Roland Fryer to export and scale the practices of high-performing charter school chains to public schools in Houston appears to be bearing early fruit, according to Fryer’s findings in a recent report. But the results are preliminary, and the method has its critics. The three-year project, called Apollo [...]
There’s a long press release with scads of information, but it distills to this: controlling machines with your brain. José del R. Millán, a researcher at Switzerland’s EPFL, has been developing the technology both for communication and mechanical-control purposes, and Nissan Europe has partnered with the lab with an eye on taking such technology to [...]
Seven really is the lucky number – at least when it comes to sleep. Regularly sleeping less than seven hours a day is linked to an increased risk for heart disease, say researchers at West Virginia University School of Medicine. But don’t assume that more sleep is better: The researchers also found that regularly sleeping [...]
It’s no secret that guys who can really get down on the dance floor often have a leg up with the ladies. And now research by psychologists at Northumbria University in England reveals which dance moves, in particular, make men sexy to women. Turns out women go for guys whose dance movements include large and [...]
More than 25 years into the epidemic, Americans are reasonably well informed about HIV/AIDS. But a new report reveals that a shocking number of Americans remain in the dark about one very important question: Am I infected? Up to 20 percent of the 1.1 million adults living with HIV in the U.S. don’t know they [...]
A revolution in the fight against HIV/AIDS might be around the corner, according to a new study, which found a daily pill, made of two commonly used HIV medications, lowered the risk of infection by 73 percent. That’s for participants who took the drug almost every day. The study found a 44 percent reduction in [...]
Is sex with circumcised men safer? While the debate not be settled everywhere, researchers working in Uganda have added an important piece to the puzzle, especially when it comes to human papillomavirus (HPV). They found women had a 28 percent higher risk of being infected with HPV by men who weren’t circumcised, according to Reuters. That’s [...]
A study out today in “The Lancet” by Moffitt Cancer Center researcher Dr. Anna Giuliano and her colleagues finds that 50% of men ages 18 to 70 in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. have genital infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). In addition to causing cervical cancer in women, HPV causes warts and cancer of the [...]
Americans are living longer than ever, with life expectancy for a baby born in 2009 now reaching 78 years and two months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report on Wednesday. In 2009, about 2.4 million people died in the U.S. – roughly 36,000 fewer deaths than the year before. Deaths [...]
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