Tuesday, March 27, 2012
For years, University of South Florida marine scientists have relied on bright yellow underwater vehicles to patrol the Gulf of Mexico and report back to them important information on water conditions.
But none of these space-age vehicles have made quite the splash as the newest member of the team: @Tavros02.
Not only can this robot independently analyze what it is finding in the water’s depths, it is capable of using Twitter to report back what it’s learning about the waters it patrols. ..
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Hydrogen fuel cells, like those found in some “green” vehicles, have a lot of promise as an alternative fuel source, but making them practical on a large scale requires them to be more efficient and cost effective.
A research team from the University of Central Florida may have found a way around both hurdles. ..
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
New technology being developed at Florida State University could significantly decrease the cost of drug discovery, potentially leading to increased access to high-quality health care and cancer patients receiving personalized chemotherapy treatments. ..
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) has completed a solar energy project that provides John U. Lloyd Beach State Park with 100 percent of its energy needs through a combination of solar electric and solar hot water systems.Known as the Sustainable Energy Project, the initiative combines using energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to provide all of the park’s energy needs, while generating environmental and economic benefits for the park as well. ..
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Nova Southeastern University’s College of Pharmacy recently launched America’s first Center for Consumer Health Informatics Research to deliver health care solutions through social media and cell phones. The center’s mission is to make new health discoveries using consumer health informatics (integration of patient preferences, behaviors, and technology) to improve health. It will use the participatory medicine model to gain insight about patient habits and other trends in health care. These discoveries can then be used to help the public make better informed personal health care decisions. ..
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
A process that prompts a single gene to generate millions of supercharged stem cells, which can then turn into any kind of cell a body needs to repair itself, has been patented at the University of Central Florida. ..
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Testing the effectiveness of new pharmaceuticals may get faster thanks to a new technique incorporating quantum dots developed at the University of Central Florida. Some drug testing can take a decade or more, but UCF associate professor Swadeshmukul Santra and his team have created an electronic quantum dots (Qdots) probe that “lights up” when a drug it is delivering attaches to cancer cells. The research appears online in this month’s Biomaterials. ..
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
A research project going on at Florida Tech involves teaching snakes — so that hopefully, they can teach us a thing or two.
Michael Grace, an associate dean of the College of Science at Florida Tech and a professor of biological sciences, earned a three-year, $369,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his work on the mechanisms of infrared imaging in pit vipers, pythons and boas. ..
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Five researchers from the University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) and the College of Engineering received a patent last month for a wireless emergency reporting system that sends and receives notifications to cell phones in a defined geographic location. ..
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The University of South Florida has received a nearly $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study a process that will help result in the creation of a highly trained workforce in engineering technology. ..
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