(AP) — Thursday marks the kickoff of the 2010 NFL season, and along with it, a renewed interest in fantasy leagues and video games that let Monday-morning quarterbacks feel as if they’re part of the action.
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Quick Hit football video game gets NFL makeover
Glancing at the elevation profiles of the stages of the 2010 Tour de France is enough to tire a couch potato. The mountainous race is legendarily strenuous, but beyond short-term discomforts such as road rash and bruised egos, some impacts could last long after racers retire.
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Tour de France Stresses Riders’ Bodies to the Limit
Four unmanned autonomous vehicles designed and built by a team of engineering students at Virginia Tech using the TORC Robotic Building Blocks product line, are headed to Hawaii to participate in the 2010 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) war games in July.
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Marines to use autonomous vehicles built using TORC products
A new study from Rhode Island Hospital indicates that spinal cord stimulation may be able to modulate Parkinson’s disease symptoms.
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Spinal cord stimulation may benefit Parkinson’s patients
Patients with high-grade gliomas who experience acute (early) neurological toxicity during their treatment were more likely to experience chronic (late) neurological toxicity and shortened overall survival, according to researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson. The study will be presented at the 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago.
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Acute toxicity predicts overall survival in high-grade gliomas
Concerns about the economy are changing Houstonians’ attitudes toward jobs, immigration and the role of government, according to the 2010 Houston Area Survey, conducted by the Institute for Urban Research at Rice University.
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Attitudes on the economy, immigration and illegal drugs are highlighted in Houston Area Survey
With a focus on providing cost-effective and reliable solutions to speed manufacturing readiness of 3D technology options, experts from SEMATECH’s 3D interconnect program based at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s (CNSE) Albany NanoTech Complex outlined new developments in wafer bonding, copper removal, and wafer thinning at the 2010 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting on April 5-9 in San Francisco, CA.
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SEMATECH Technologists Detail Process Advances to Accelerate 3D Manufacturing Readiness
In an unprecedented broadcasting move, the 2010 Masters will be produced and broadcast live in 3-D, Augusta National Golf Club chairman Billy Payne announced on Monday.
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Masters will have breakthrough 3-D broadcast
A research team led by Mayo Clinic has found a national trend toward younger, more diverse patients having total knee replacement surgery.
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Researchers find younger, more diverse patients having total knee replacements