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How Prostate Cancer Therapies Compare by Cost and Effectiveness
January 4, 2013 — The most comprehensive retrospective study ever conducted comparing how the major types of prostate cancer treatments stack up to each other in terms of saving lives and cost effectiveness have been ... > full story -
Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor Enhances Hospital Disinfection of Superbugs
December 31, 2012 — Infection control experts have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical are highly effective at killing ... > full story -
Virtual Reality and Robotics in Neurosurgery: Promise and Challenges
December 20, 2012 — Robotic technologies have the potential to help neurosurgeons perform precise, technically demanding operations, together with virtual reality environments to help them navigate through the brain, ... > full story -
Dragonflies Have Human-Like 'Selective Attention'
December 20, 2012 — In a discovery that may prove important for cognitive science, our understanding of nature and applications for robot vision, researchers have found evidence that the dragonfly is capable of ... > full story -
Motivation, Study Habits -- Not IQ -- Determine Growth in Math Achievement
December 20, 2012 — It's not how smart students are but how motivated they are and how they study that determines their growth in math achievement. That's the main finding of a study that looks at six annual waves of ... > full story -
Robotic-Assisted Radical Bladder Surgery Potentially Benefits Bladder Cancer Patients
December 19, 2012 — About 30 percent of the more than 70,000 bladder cancer cases expected in 2012 are muscle invasive. In such cases, radical cystectomy is the preferred treatment. In a pilot trial, a team of ... > full story -
Artificial Intelligence Helps Sort Used Batteries
December 19, 2012 — A new type of machine sorts used batteries by means of artificial intelligence (AI). One machine is now being used in the UK, sorting one-third of the country’s recycled ... > full story -
Major Breakthrough in High-Precision Indoor Positioning
December 17, 2012 — Cell phones are getting ever smarter today, savvy enough to tell you where to go and what to buy in shopping centers or department stores. Although still in nascent stages, indoor positioning and ... > full story -
Noise Power on Adhesion: New Model May Help Robotic Fingers, Made of a Soft Surface, Manipulate Small Objects
December 17, 2012 — A new model could ultimately help robotic fingers, made of a soft surface, manipulate small objects. Imagine a solid ball rolling down a slightly inclined ramp. Scientists have studied the effect of ... > full story -
Woman With Quadriplegia Feeds Herself Chocolate Using Mind-Controlled Robot Arm
December 17, 2012 — Reaching out to "high five" someone, grasping and moving objects of different shapes and sizes, feeding herself dark chocolate. For Jan Scheuermann and a team of researchers, accomplishing these ... > full story
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