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26Sep/17

F1 tech keeping your baby safe in an ambulance

September 26, 2017InnovationAmbulance, Auto racing, City: Motorsport, Formula 1, Formula One, G-force, GROVE, Keep, McDill, Medical technology, Motorsport, Open wheel racing, PAUL MCNAMARA, Stuart McDill, UK's Children Acute Transport Service, United Kingdom, WILLIAMS ADVANCED ENGINEERING, Williams Grand Prix Engineeringsmbale

The same technology that keeps Formula One drivers out of danger in the event of a crash is being used to help new-born babies stay safe in ambulances, as Stuart McDill reports. Continue reading →

25Sep/17

Computer says no – beauty not in the eye of the beholder

September 25, 2017ScienceAesthetics, Beauty, Beholder, Bradley Cooper, Dungeons & Dragons, Eye of the Beholder, Face, Fashion, Geometry, George Clooney, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals, Idris Elba, Interpersonal attraction, Julian De Silva, London, McDill, Medicine, Perception, Physical attractiveness, Plastic surgery, Role-playing video games, Stuart McDill, United Kingdom, United Statessmbale

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but now a computer facial mapping technique is proving geometry also plays an important part and the ancient Greeks knew all about it, as Stuart McDill reports. Continue reading →

21Mar/17

Tiny predator is Top Gun of the insect world

March 21, 2017ScienceAgriculture, Asilidae, CAMBRIDGE'S DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY, Fly, Geological history of Earth, GONZALEZ-, Insect, Insects in culture, Mesozoic, minimal data processing, Neuroscience, Predation, Rice, Stuart McDill, TREVOR WARDILL, Triassic, Tropical agriculture, United Kingdomsmbale

A tiny fly, the size of a grain of rice, could be the Top Gun of the insect world after Cambridge scientists identified its remarkable ability to detect and intercept its prey mid-air, as Stuart McDill reports. Continue reading →

08Feb/17

Electronic nose sniffs out diseases on a patient’s breath

February 8, 2017InnovationBiology, Branches of biology, Breathing, Clinical medicine, disease, Exhalation, Geriatrics, Germany, Haifa, Health, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals, Hossam Haick, Israel, MAINZ, Medicine, Parkinson, Parkinson's disease, Psychiatric diagnosis, Respiration, RTT, Science and technology in Israel, Stuart McDill, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Technology/Internet, YOAV BROZAsmbale

A “NaNose” device which can diagnose 17 diseases, including cancer and Parkinson’s, based on ‘smelling’ a patient’s breath paves the way for quick, non invasive and affordable early detection according to its Israeli developers. Stuart McDill reports. Continue reading →