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A YouTube video from years ago shows a highly enthusiatsic Steve Balmer (to put it lightly) strutting on stage shouting “Developers, developers, developers, developers!” over and over again. Guest blog by Ron Breault.

A patient preparing for cancer treatment that uses radiation has plenty to worry about. Getting the right treatment every time — just the right dose in just the right place — should be taken for granted. And yet in radiotherapy, as in every other human activity, errors happen.Tracking down and eliminating errors in a way that simultaneously prevents further problems is the stock-in-trade of the Center for the Assessment of Radiologica...

Striking electron microscope pictures from inside the brains of mice suggest what happens in our own brain every day: Our synapses – the junctions between nerve cells – grow strong and large during the stimulation of daytime, then shrink by nearly 20% while we sleep, creating room for more growth and learning the next day.

A new Design Challenge for designers and engineers called ‘Upcycle it’ has been launched by element14. Sponsored by Intel, element14 will challenge 15 community members to Upcycle an unwanted or waste product to give it a new or enhanced lease of life. Upcycling is a concept that began in the 1990s and is also known as “Creative Reuse”. This is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted...

The Psyche mission, a journey to a metal asteroid, has been selected for flight under NASA’s Discovery Program, a series of lower-cost, highly focused robotic space missions that are exploring the solar system.Psyche includes prominent roles for Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) professors MariaZuber (leading the Gravity investigation), Richard Binzel (asteroid composition expert), and Benjamin Weiss (leading th...

It is safe to say last year, (2016) was an incredible year for space exploration and discovery. Here we will take a look at two particular significant NASA missions. Guest blog by Linda Pirrotta.

Celebrating its 25th birthday is Progea, and the company has used the occasion to mark the release of NExT, a new SCADA product designed from a clean sheet to address the needs of SCADA applications of the next generation.

The Creator Ci40 and Ci20 IoT development kits from Imagination Technologies are available at RS Components (RS). The Creator kits include the hardware, software and cloud infrastructure required to quickly build a wireless IoT system. Built on open industry standards, the Creator IoT framework is supported by an ecosystem including reference software and projects.

A UW–Madison Microbiome Initiative comes with $1 million in grant funding administered by the vice chancellor for research and graduate education to support interdisciplinary research, infrastructure, and research community enhancements related to the microbiome.“Microbiome science has the potential to revolutionise areas such as health care, agriculture, biomanufacturing, environmental management, and more,” says Marsha Mailick...

Iowa State University Aerospace Engineering Department is the winner of Rohde & Schwarz’s 2 minutes competition and is the recipient of the star prize of an R&S Scope Rider. Scope Rider will help the University’s MAVRIC student team design and debug a Mars Rover and enter the University Rover Challenge (URC), the world's premier robotics competition for college students.