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Ryerson University Digital Media Zone tech expert outlines this year's hottest holiday tech gifts.

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Ryerson Digital Media Zone’s resident 3-D expert offers advice on purchasing your first 3-D television this holiday season...

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When it comes to teaching space and Earth sciences, there’s a world of information out there, and two Florida State University researchers are helping K-12 teachers to bring it into the classroom.

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Widely prescribed for their cholesterol-lowering properties, recent clinical research indicates that statins can produce a second, significant health benefit: lowering the risk of severe bacterial infections such as pneumonia and sepsis.

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OpenStudy is a social media site hooks up students from all across the globe, making the entire world a study group.

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28-year old traveled to University of Maryland Medical Center from Georgia

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Kelly Bruno, a second-year medical student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is also an amputee who has completed three Ironman triathlons. But she is perhaps better known to many as "Kelly B.," one of the castaways on "Survivor: Nicaragua."

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As the global HIV/AIDS community prepares to commemorate World AIDS Day 2010 on December 1, there is a growing recognition that the development of an HIV vaccine is a vital step in battling the rising incidence of AIDS around the world.

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As the global HIV/AIDS community prepares to commemorate World AIDS Day 2010 on December 1, there is a growing recognition that rapid HIV testing is a vital tool in battling the rising incidence of this disease around the world.

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Using a social networking platform such as Twitter as a tool in university courses can increase student engagement and boost grades. That’s the conclusion of a study involving university students published Nov. 12, 2010, in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.

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Decoding the DNA of a woman who died of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has led researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to a gene that they found to be commonly altered in many patients who died quickly of the disease. The findings, if confirmed in larger studies, suggest that a diagnostic test for mutations in the gene could identify AML patients who need more aggressive treatment right from the start.

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The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), a nonprofit scientific society focusing on the science of food, today announced that it received the PR News' Nonprofit PR Award in the video category for their "A Day in the Life of a NASA Food Scientist" video.

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University researcher Jeffrey Pollard, Ph.D., has received the prestigious Medal of Honor in Basic Science from the American Cancer Society (ACS) in recognition of his research into the critical role the tumor microenvironment plays in modulating cancer behavior, specifically the role that members of the innate immune cells called macrophages play both in normal development and in promoting tumor progression. These macrophages could hold the key to more targeted cancer treatments.

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Being diagnosed with cancer is tough enough, but many times cancer patients have to endure hours of chemotherapy to treat the disease. A new program at a cancer hospital in Boston may just be what the doctor ordered to help patients pass the time.

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The amount of time parents spend talking about numbers has a much bigger impact on how young children learn mathematics than was previously known. Children whose parents talked more about numbers were much more likely to understand the number principle that the size of a set of objects is determined by the last number reached when counting the set.

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Controlling malaria in part of Africa may become easier thanks to an international partnership between U.S. researchers and colleagues in Ethiopia that uses new tools to monitor risk.

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Researchers have reached a significant milestone in their development of nanometer-scale generators that harvest mechanical energy from the environment using an array of tiny nanowires: the ability to power conventional electronic devices such as liquid-crystal displays.

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University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Edward Partridge, M.D., a renowned women’s cancer doctor and leader in the fight to reduce race- and ethnicity-based cancer disparities, has been named president of the American Cancer Society (ACS) National Board of Directors for 2010-11.

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The study found that there are significant benefits of Tai Chi for individuals with all types of arthritis, including fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.

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American soldiers are taking their own lives in the largest numbers since the military began keeping records, and the Department of Defense has enlisted the help of The Florida State University in waging the war against suicide.

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An interest in technology and a desire to help elementary school students prompted a Kansas State University professor and two graduate students to turn to webcams to improve students' reading fluency.

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a gene linked to the spread of melanoma of the eye. Although more research is needed, the researchers say the discovery is an important step in understanding why some tumors spread and others don’t. Metastasis is the most common cause of death in cancer patients.

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A fatal genetic disorder that frequently takes years to diagnose may soon be detectable with a simple blood test. For patients with Niemann-Pick type C disease, the test will make it possible to begin treatment earlier, when it is more likely to improve quality of life and to further extend lives.

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The Missouri River needs a flow of sediment, not just water, to stay healthy, and regulatory agencies and scientists need to do a better job of gathering and understanding information about that process.

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has launched SuperAgers.com, a new website that features the latest information on more than a decade of aging research. It highlights the work of Nir Barzilai, M.D., director of the Institute for Aging Research, and a team of researchers, coordinators and volunteers examining the genes of the very old through the Longevity Genes Project.

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The holidays are an exciting and busy time of year as parents race to finish the shopping, decorating and baking. As the number of days left in the calendar year winds down, be sure to allow plenty of time in that hectic schedule for playing with your child and sharing holiday traditions as a family. Nationwide Children’s Hospital reminds parents to keep alert to various holiday dangers.

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A protein called T-cadherin docks the fat hormone adiponectin to the heart, where it guards against stress-induced damage.

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A new study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Norwegian researchers has found that women with anorexia nervosa are much more likely to have both unplanned pregnancies and induced abortions than women who don’t have the serious eating disorder.

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As millions of Americans enjoy the annual celebration of baseball known as the World Series, most have no idea "the best baseball player you've never heard of" was the woman who replaced Hank Aaron in the Negro Leagues.

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The Methodist Hospital Research Institute® (TMHRI) today opened a 12-story, 440,000 square foot research facility dedicated solely to research and equipped with the world’s most advanced technology to help research scientists, physicians and engineers cure diseases that afflict today’s patients.

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Analyzing archived images of globular star cluster Omega Centauri taken over a four-year period by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, astronomers have made the most accurate measurements yet of the motions of more than 100,000 cluster inhabitants, the largest survey to date to study the movement of stars in any cluster.

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Researchers have identified an important signaling pathway that, when blocked, significantly decreases the spread of pediatric bone cancer.

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Mothers who have children diagnosed with cancer now have a better approach to address and cope with stresses associated with their child's disease.

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“Since the founding of the Peace Corps 50 years ago, international service programs have grown dramatically across the public, private and nonprofit sectors,” says Amanda Moore McBride, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School and expert on civic service as Research Director at the School’s Center for Social Development (CSD).

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Heart attack patients whose hearts have stopped beating and who receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from bystanders fare better if their resuscitators skip the rescue breaths and do only chest compression, according to a study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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Loyola Non-invasive therapy requires no anesthesia or sedation; can be done in a half hour in psychiatrist’s offic

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Binghamton University, State University of New York, today launched construction of its New York State Center of Excellence in Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging (S3IP) building in a ceremony attended by elected officials, local leaders and University representatives. The facility will connect with the Biotechnology and the Engineering and Science buildings, which are both part of the University’s Innovative Technologies Complex (ITC).

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision. The images show a bizarre X-shaped object at the head of a comet-like trail of material. In January, astronomers began using Hubble to track the object for five months. They thought they had witnessed a fresh asteroid collision, but were surprised to learn the collision occurred in early 2009.

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Scolisoft is the largest international online spinal deformity database and the only database that carries clinical photographs of surgical patients taken before and after surgery.

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Three K-State doctoral candidates have received $15,000 fellowships because their research has national appeal and future intellectual property associated from it. The research is in chemical engineering, mathematics and human nutrition.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the large asteroid Vesta that will help scientists refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous with Vesta in July 2011. Scientists have constructed a video from the images that will help improve pointing instructions for Dawn as it is placed in a polar orbit around Vesta. Analyses of Hubble images revealed a pole orientation, or tilt, of approximately four degrees more to the asteroid's east than scientists previously thought.

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In its continuing fight to end brain disorders, the American Academy of Neurology Foundation is turning entries submitted to the 2010 Neuro Film Festival into its latest video public service announcement about the need for donations for more research into curing brain disorders.

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As the song says, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, and now researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that the sights and sounds of chirping birds, ribbiting frogs and water trickling downstream can ease the substantial pain of bone marrow extraction in one of five people who must endure it.

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A protein that pumps calcium out of cells also moonlights as a signal to get massive quantities of the stuff to flow in, according to Johns Hopkins scientists. Their discovery of this surprisingly opposite function, reported Oct. 1 in Cell, highlights the link between calcium and cancer and holds the promise of a new therapeutic target for certain breast cancers.

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Digging more data out of lung CT scans to improve treatment of lung cancer and diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has earned a physician-scientist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health.

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The Division of Transplantation in the Department of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) has started a live donor liver transplant program. Live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a procedure in which a living person donates a portion of his or her liver to another person.

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Siblings of children with autism have more frequent language delays and other subtle characteristics of the disorder than previously understood. Girls also may be mildly affected more often than recognized in the past, according to a new study, led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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For decades, carefully logging data about how mice go through the motions of their daily routines has been a tedious staple of behavioral and neuroscience research. It’s a task most people would happily cede to automation. Now, according to a new study by MIT neuroscientists, that’s finally possible.

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While outdoor enthusiasts may enjoy soaking up the summer sun, their time spent under the rays can leave skin damaged come fall. That is why fall months are a great time to repair the harm done by overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays.

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Loyola physician says this season will be different in several ways.