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Performance of a Remotely Located Muon Radiography System to Identify the Inner Structure of a Nuclear Plant

What was it like to use a wearable computer back in 1999?

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Glass apps will require people to create new content filters. Maybe that’s just a losing battle.

Would you want your daily horoscope beamed to your right eye? That’s the vision of the future I saw when I tried out the fashion magazine Elle’s app for Google Glass yesterday, one of several apps...

Otherfab’s Kickstarter project offers an easy way to make custom circuit boards at home.

Building solar and wind projects in the wrong place is wasting billions of dollars in Europe.

Siemens says it would make sense to build solar power plants in sunny countries in Europe rather than in cloudy ones. And wind turbines should be built in windy places.

The mental fuzziness induced by cancer treatment could be eased by cognitive exercises performed online, say researchers.

Cancer survivors sometimes suffer from a condition known as “chemo fog”—a cognitive impairment caused by repeated chemotherapy. A study hints at a controversial idea: that brain...

Here’s the smartphone technology that alerts a doctor when patients are headed for trouble.

At the Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, nurses can see into the lives of some diabetes patients even when they’re not at the clinic. If a specific patient starts acting lethargic, or m...

The mental fuzziness induced by cancer treatment could be eased by cognitive exercises performed online, say researchers.

Long-term cancer survivors who use a brain-training program for 12 weeks are more cognitively flexible, verbally fluent and are faster thinkers than survivors who did not...

Prototype spots swelling and bleeding in a pilot study—but the novel technique employed is relatively unproven.

A helmet that sends a magnetic field through the wearer’s head might someday offer a quick way to reveal whether the brain is  swelling or bleeding as the result of an injury.