Gall Bladder (GB) stones are studied as new sensor materials for biomedical and other applications. The GB material samples are analysed for knowing their chemical composition by using an X-Ray diffractometry and other techniques. -Quartz is found to be present

Haptics and virtual environments offer the opportunity to improve the traditional methods of stroke rehabilitation. Traditionally, a therapist has to subjectively evaluate the patient's performance. This paper aims to introduce an automated inference system that utilises haptic data to quantise

As Haptic devices become more affordable and economical, research in Haptic-based virtual rehabilitation systems is gaining more interest. In addition to the benefits provided by virtual rehabilitation, Haptics offer force and tactile feedback which can be crucial for much upper

This paper presents the methodological procedures and the results of a tactile sensitivity analysis to vibrotactile stimuli. The results were obtained through the analyses between the rightness mean while identifying the target frequency, among the following characteristics: visually and hearing

Annus Mirabilis 1905 was marked by fundamental changes in the physics theory which took the attention of the elite of the scientific world, while Dr. Korotkov devised his noninvasive method for measuring blood pressure. More than a century later, his

World's smallest optical transistor brings optical computers a step closer

The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space today after a successful launch from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

In 1988, wildfires raced through Yellowstone National Park, consuming hundreds of thousands of acres. This series of Landsat images tracks the landscape’s slow recovery through 2008.

See the tracks of 2008 storms from Arthur to Paloma from birth to death.

This true-color image from July 1, 2009, shows a series of giant dust plumes west of Mauritania. The smallest and most concentrated plume appears east of Cape Verde.

True-color images of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado show a dramatic difference in snow appearance between 2008 and 2009. In 2009, dust has colored the snow dull brown and accelerated snowmelt.

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the data archive center for NASA s Kepler mission, and has now received the first raw science data from Kepler. Now, the data can be analyzed and used

American Geophysical Union) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Ancient supervolcano's eruption caused decade of severe winters"; "Understanding fault movement during Wenchuan earthquake"; "First direct measurement of lunar backscatter from solar wind"; "Reducing uncertainty in

The change in Earth s climate may help scientists better understand planetary habitability in general. Scientists are now learning how small shifts in climate can have dramatic consequences for the pl

A new discovery at Enceladus could have implications for the potential for life on the Saturnian moon. Researchers have found that the large plume of water spurting from the moon is likely fed by a sa

NASA s Mars rover Spirit is having traction trouble in the martian soil. Although stuck, the rover is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about Mars environmental history.

A bacterium recovered from beneath three kilometers of glacial ice in Greenland may hold clues as to how life could exist on other planets. Astrobiologists are now studying the unique organism, which

A new study has found that hydrocarbon lakes on Titan could be good hosts for a certain type of chemistry that could lead to life.

Scientists have determined that nickel could be used to identify the presence of methane-producing microbes on the early Earth. During the process of methanogenesis, microbes cause changes in the isot

Researchers have created new materials that assemble and disassemble in a way similar to DNA. The materials are constructed from molecules that would be expected to exist on the primordial Earth, and