Home
RSS
Right after the surgical robots and bomb sniffing ferret, here’s a Duke University-developed robot that combines the facets of both to a degree of sorts. The laboratory robot is specially designed to sniff out pieces of metal within the human flesh...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
16
Star It 
(1)
When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago, he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like.
The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an...
made popular 16 hr. ago
Kenya is on high alert now that the first case of swine flu has been detected. The case happens to be a British student who among others are in the country on a...
made popular Jul 2 2009
Web workers face various health issues. Here are 50 resources that address lack of exercise, eating disorders, stress, and more.
made popular Jun 23 2009
The Tunisian government has announced that the first case of H1N1 virus, or Swine flu, has been registered in the country. Such a case is the first in the Maghreb...
made popular Jun 23 2009
Women in Africa are being sterilised without their consent after being told the procedure is a routine treatment for Aids, a lawsuit will claim.
Forty HIV-positive...
made popular Jun 23 2009
The nationwide initiative — funded by the United States government and implemented by global charity ‘Population Services International’ (PSI) —...
made popular Jun 19 2009
9 cases of H1N1 virus were confirmed in the Jordanian Kingdom. Jordan discovered and announced the first case of infection on Monday, and the number quickly increased...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Health officials assuring citizens of availability of swine flu medicines. Over the past weekend, mobile phone text messages were sent with the message that swine flu...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Scientists are genetically modifying a bizarre looking Mexican salamander, which according to ancient mythology is a transformed Aztec god, in the hope its ability to...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Beware of These Numbing Cream Manufacturers!
Date Wednesday, June 17th 2009, 10:43 PM Icon 1 Date 0
1
The Food and Drug Administration warned five medication...
made popular Jun 18 2009
The adult film industry said it was the first case since the 2004 outbreak, the LA Times reported.
In fact, 22 performers have tested positive, including last...
made popular Jun 13 2009
Venezuela’s Health Ministry said Friday it banned sales of Coca-Cola Zero because the company failed to declare that the no-calorie soft drink uses an artificial...
made popular Jun 13 2009
Greece will impose a tobacco ban in public places on July 1 in its third attempt in a decade to stamp out the habit in Europe’s biggest-smoking nation, the health...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Thousands of patients are dying unnecessarily because hospital doctors are missing the signs of kidney failure, a national inquiry reports today.
Half of people who...
made popular Jun 11 2009
tips and advice regarding smoking withdrawl symptoms
made popular Jun 8 2009
The oldest himan had died aged 134 couple hours ago. Moloko Temo lived all her life in Limpopo Province of South Africa.
If Temo was born in 1874 she is almost...
made popular Jun 6 2009
This article goes exclusively for Shimla .
I thank god that I was blessed to be born in Shimla The Queen Of Hills in a Chotta Shimla based business family, I got my...
made popular Jun 5 2009
Throughout the Second World War Eton College was adamant it would not close its doors as a result of any threat from the Germans. It would not, its then headmaster...
made popular May 29 2009
Pumwani maternity hospital is one of the busiest hospitals here in Nairobi but this is where the devil has pitched camp.
The hospital is known for all kind of weird...
made popular May 27 2009
Mobile telephones are to be banned from French primary schools, and operators must offer handsets that allow only text messages, under government measures to reduce the...
made popular May 27 2009
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
Interpreting expressions is a tough challenge even for a mentally potent human so imagine how good the algorithms that comprehend hand gestures and convert them to text...
made popular Jun 11 2009
Duke University grads not only got their degrees on the graduation day confirming their education but also got more education, which was not theoretical at all.
Oprah,...
made popular May 11 2009
AP, Raleigh
A North Carolina appeals court has heard arguments in a case that could decide whether a Duke University lacrosse coach can sue the school’s former spokesman for...
made popular Jan 14 2009
AP, Durham
Duke University officials are appealing a ruling that allows former men’s lacrosse coach Mike Pressler to pursue a slander lawsuit against the school and its...
made popular Jan 14 2009
AP, Durham
Duke University says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s son was properly dismissed from the golf team and was never promised a spot on the squad.
made popular Sep 10 2008
AP, Raleigh
The son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is suing Duke University, claiming his golf coach manufactured accusations against him to justify kicking him off...
made popular Jul 24 2008
AP, Durham
The son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is suing Duke University, claiming he was wrongfully kicked off the golf team.Andrew Giuliani claims he was...
made popular Jul 24 2008
It turns out the golden years really are golden. Eye-opening new research finds the happiest Americans are the oldest
made popular Apr 21 2008
AP, Winston-salem
A federal judge on Tuesday refused a Duke University request to sanction lawyers for publicizing a lawsuit in which three dozen Duke lacrosse players say they were...
made popular Apr 16 2008
AP, Durham
Authorities have charged a suspect in the slaying of the University of North Carolina student president with the January killing of a Duke University graduate student.A...
made popular Mar 13 2008
Idoya
is a normal ape. However, a rigorous training schedule means that she can now
walk on a treadmill and that too at varying speeds. On Thursday, this ability
of the...
made popular Jan 17 2008
Sending data over a great distance is not a problem, which the present optical networks like the Internet, are doing so successfully. However, it is time to consider...
made popular Dec 18 2007
Every year, millions of children are born across the world. Of these newly born babies, a sizable amount are born with a number of inherent metabolic disorders that...
made popular Dec 11 2007
A study by scientists of Duke Universityhave identified ’silenced genes’ which makes a person vulnerable to various disorders ranging from obesity to...
made popular Nov 30 2007
If you think that blood from the blood bank will save you, think again! Last few years have witnessed an increased level of heart attack and stroke in the patients who...
made popular Oct 10 2007
In the United States, half of over a million people suffering from heart attack die each year! There are several known factors that lead to heart attack — be it...
made popular May 7 2007
Students at the Duke University have created a prototype Wisdom Door that uses biometric information to decide who enters.
The door does not make you to stop and...
made popular Feb 17 2007
Now, a surgical robot will have a guide, and that too, not a human - but a three-dimensional ultrasound scanner. Developed by engineers from Duke University, the...
made popular Oct 31 2006
Scientists have been adding on fearful after-effects of global warming. Here is another reason for one to worry of increasing temperature of the planet - it will lead...
made popular May 30 2006
Related Tags
3D ultrasound technology Artificial Intelligence Autonomous Robot Duke Entertainment Gesture Interpretation giuliani Health & Fitness lacrosse lawsuit Military Robot mobile phone PhonePoint Pen robotics Robots Shrapnel detecting robot sports Technology United States wisdom
