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Digital Mammography Trial Results Announced
Preliminary results from a large, clinical trial of digital vs. film mammography show no difference in detecting breast cancer for the general population of women in the trial.   view more (2005-09-19)

£1 Million For Research Project At The Royal College Of Art
The Computer Related Design Research Studio at the Royal College of Art has been awarded more than £1 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as a partner in the six year EQUATOR project.   view more (2002-04-18)

The Most Efficient Vector Graphics Compression Technique in the World Invented at the University of Joensuu
The digital world surrounding us is full of images. Many of them are very large and do not easily fit into small devices, such as smart mobile phones. Alexander Kolesnikov's thesis brings a revolutionary change to this. He has invented the most efficient vector graphics compression technique in the world that will make all maps, drawings and... view more... (2003-10-17)

Back education efficacy in elementary schoolchildren
In surveys among children and teenagers during the past few years, as many as half of all children in a community report a history of low back pain. Although several authors advocate the implementation of back education in elementary school, no guidelines exist and little is known about the efficacy of such a program. The inclusion of a back... view more... (2002-04-22)

GEN highlights increasing use of digital gene expression profiling
A novel technique for carrying out gene-expression profiling is set to challenge the market dominance of the current, widely used methodology, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN).   view more (2009-04-06)

Digital Ant Colony System
Whoever thinks that ants are only erratic little beings, whose incessant wanderings are pointless or obey no kind of universal order, is very much mistaken. Their society is so organized and complex that it is already being used as a model for the creation of algorithms, adaptable to a variety of scientific areas. Inspired by the work of Chialvo... view more... (2002-09-30)

Digital communications advance with simple CdS thin films
Demands on digital communications are increasing at an exponential rate. The need for innovative advances in this area means research on optical and electrical properties of CdS thin films are of interest.   view more (2006-05-15)

iPods and similar devices found not to affect pacemaker function
Last May, a widely reported study concluded that errant electronic noise from iPods can cause implantable cardiac pacemakers to malfunction. This just didn't sound right to the cardiac electrophysiologists at Children's Hospital Boston, who've seen hundreds of children, teens and young adults with heart conditions requiring pacemakers.   view more (2008-03-31)

Minister sees how Europe benefits new businesses
MEP Dr Barbara O'Toole found out how the University of Sunderland is helping to boost the North East economy with the help of European grants. During a recent visit to the university Dr O'Toole, who is Labour European Parliament spokesperson on Culture, Education, Youth, Media and Sport, discovered how young people at its new £9m Media... view more... (2004-05-26)

Radiation dose reduction in liver cancer
A new digital angiography flat panel system reduces the radiation dose to patients undergoing interventional treatment for liver cancer by about one-fourth, a new study shows.   view more (2005-10-03)

C1XS catches first glimpse of X-ray from the moon
The C1XS X-ray camera, jointly developed by the UK's STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has successfully detected its first X-ray signature from the Moon.   view more (2009-01-26)

Blur's noise and distortion reversed
Errant pixels and blurry regions in a photo, whether digital or scanned, are the bane of photographers everywhere.   view more (2009-07-09)

Pinpoint accuracy with the Proba camera
A new star tracker allowing a satellite to determine its orientation in space with an accuracy never seen before has proved its worth aboard ESA`s Proba mission. Proba (Project for On-Board Autonomy) built by Verhaert (Belgium) for ESA was launched in Autumn 2001 and is now fully operational, carrying out a series of Earth observations with... view more... (2002-06-04)

UWE wins £236k to research digital printing
A major grant of £236,670 has been won by the University of the West of England's Art, Media and Design Faculty to aid research into new ways for fine artists to use digital methods of printing. The three-year research project will include study of the potential of the latest two-metre wide-format printers. This is the latest in a series of... view more... (2003-08-11)

Ensonido: surround sound in digital radio for stereo headphones
5.1-channel surround sound in Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) can now be played back with standard stereo headphones - thanks to Ensonido, a new technology of Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. At High End 2005 in Munich, Bayern Digital Radio and Fraunhofer IIS present for the first time multi-channel sound for headphones in... view more... (2005-05-03)

Audio-visual tools for Speech & Language Therapists
Latest developments from the Department of Electronics at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC) are proving to be invaluable audio-visual tools for Speech & Language Therapists around the world. Senior Lecturer Steve Kelly has been working on an already existing technology called SNORS+ and developed a system that combines time-coded... view more... (2002-04-25)

Single-pixel camera has multiple futures
A terahertz version of the single-pixel camera developed by Rice University researchers could lead to breakthrough technologies in security, telecom, signal processing and medicine.   view more (2008-10-15)

HiRISE Camera on NASA orbiter gets detailed view of opportunity at Victoria Crater
With stunningly powerful vision, the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a remarkable picture that shows the exploration rover Opportunity poised on the rim of Victoria crater on Mars.   view more (2006-10-09)

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business
Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147.   view more (2008-10-31)

Large Area High Definition Television (HDTV) prototype based on Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) Light Valves.
The microsystems group TFCG/IMEC at the University of Gent has developed a large area High Definition Television (HDTV) prototype based on Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) light valves. This work is carried out in collaboration with the Taiwanese company TMDC. The LCoS HDTV is most suited for multimedia and DVD home-theater applications. The R&D... view more... (2003-04-30)
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