 Computer scientists unravel 'language of surgery'Borrowing ideas from speech recognition research, Johns Hopkins computer scientists are building mathematical models to represent the safest and most effective ways to perform surgery, including tasks such ... | |
 Sony joins DVD war as new Blu-ray machine hits storesLess than a month after the troubled launch of its PlayStation 3, Sony has rolled out its new high definition DVD recorder in Japan as it struggles to restore its tarnished reputation. | |
 Yahoo Shakeup Highlights Web Video Shift(AP) -- The departure of television veteran Lloyd Braun from Yahoo Inc. underscores a shift, or at least a major hiccup, by Internet companies away from creating costly original content. | |
 NIST Math Technique Opens Clearer Window on UniverseA fast, efficient image enhancement technique developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and originally applied to improving monochrome microscope images has proved itself equally effective ... | |
 Possible Signs of Liquid Water Flowing on MarsNASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years. | |
Cell phones for the holidaysNo longer is the cellular phone selection limited to the RAZR, a $500 Treo and hundreds of look-alikes and act-alikes. Recent months have brought a wave of new devices that stand apart from the pack in terms of looks and ... | |
 Some gadget gifts make work, play easierNothing shows how much you care more than a gift that makes play more fun and work less arduous. From an advanced computer mouse to a robot vacuum that sucks up nails, there's no shortage of gadgets to stuff ... | |
 NASA Mars Orbiter Photographs Spirit and Vikings on the GroundNew images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show three additional NASA spacecraft that have landed on Mars: the Spirit rover active on the surface since January 2004 and the two Viking landers that successfully ... | |
Weight determination of individual viruses with a miniature ion trapViruses are the simplest life forms on our planet, consisting of only DNA or RNA and a shell. After the prokaryotes (bacteria and archebacteria), viruses are the second most common type of organism. In our oceans they are ... | |
 Japan to develop tiny superlight spy plane: reportJapan's Defense Agency is to develop a miniature superlight reconnaissance aircraft, based on ideas from a paper plane, a local newspaper has said. | |
 Nintendo's Wii game console debuts in JapanThousands of video-game fans waited all night for the Japanese debut of Nintendo's next-generation Wii, brightening the company's hopes of wresting market share from troubled Sony's PlayStation. | |
Review: 3 Smart Phones Target Consumers(AP) -- In a blink of mere months, the mobile "smart" phone has been transformed from pricey corporate gadget to an affordable alternative for ordinary folk. | |
 Robot to penetrate deep inside Cheops pyramidA robot archaeologist is to be sent deep inside Egypt's largest pyramid in a bid to solve secrets revealed by a first foray more than four years ago, antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass said. | |
One-off treatment to stop back pain -- Using patients' own stem cellsA University of Manchester researcher has developed a treatment for lower back pain using the patient�s own stem cells, which could replace the use of strong painkillers or surgery that can cause debilitation, neither of ... | |
 New wide-angle lens produces pictures without distortionSouth Korean researchers have designed and built an inexpensive optical lens that collects light from a large area and produces a virtually distortion-free wide-angle image. Standing in contrast to commonly ... | |
