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Catholic Relief Services of Baltimore faced a daunting challenge: getting advice from several thousand people at once.

by Chris Barncard Borrowing computing power from idle sources will help geneticists sidestep the multimillion-dollar cost of reconstituting the flood of data produced by next-generation genome-sequencing machines.

Electronic Visualization Laboratory King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Calit2 Virtual Reality Design Engineer Greg Dawe demonstrates the HUVR device, which combines a consumer 3D HDTV

A delicate wine glass shatters on the floor. A rock is thrown through a window. A child smashes his piggy bank.

Imperial celebrates five new Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows Imperial engineers acknowledged for their exceptional contribution to engineering ?

Students interview Dr. Osman Palma (center), director of the Alfonso Moncada Guillen Hospital Amigo de la Niñez y de la Madre, located in Ocotal, Nicaragua.

Nano-sized beauty, cutting-edge scientific advances and glimpses of remarkable humanitarian initiatives in distant parts of the world have all been captured in this year's Engineering photo competition at the University of Cambridge.

UC San Diego Energy Dashboard Sustainability at UC San Diego UC San Diego Energy Dashboard to Help Campus Curb Appetite for Power SDG&E Recognizes UC San Diego for Saving Additional $900,000 a Year i

That's the challenge being set by scientists from the University of Sussex, who will be presenting their research into how insects find their way home at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, which opens today (25 June 2010). Researchers Dr Andrew Philippides (Informatics) and Dr Paul Graham (Life Sciences) from the University's Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) will be explaining to visitors at the London exhibition the surprisingly complex mechanisms used by small-brained nest-dwelling insects as they navigate back home from foraging expeditions.

PA 150/10 A simple new risk assessment score allowing GPs accurately to predict which of their patients are most likely to develop Chronic Kidney Disease over the next five years has been written by experts at The University of Nottingham.

School pupils from Nottingham have become pioneer scientists as part of a research project aimed at designing an innovative approach to learning.

Interdisciplinary research being undertaken by the Universities of Leeds and Cambridge has received a major boost through a £5.9m, five- year EPSRC Programme Grant award to address this issue of enabling growth of ICT networks while at the same time reducing energy consumption.

MEMSIC Adopts IBM Software to Enable Organizations to More Easily Harness Sensors and Find Patterns in Ubiquitous Data Rosemont, IL, June 9, 2010—IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a contract with MEMSIC Inc.

Hylas on schedule for launch 4 June 2010 The completion of important tests on the Hylas telecommunications satellite has brought it a step closer to launch late this year.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A robot named MABEL with a human-like gait can walk over rough terrain in University of Michigan electrical engineering professor Jessy Grizzle's lab.

A readership survey suggests that Stanford Report 's transition from a weekly newspaper to a daily "eNews" has been successful.

The Centre for Digital Humanities brings together research from the traditionally separate disciplines of computing and humanities to create new tools that enhance the understanding and study of the humanities and culture heritage.

Computer scientists at the University of Birmingham have won funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to work on a groundbreaking study into teenage energy consumption that could change the behaviour of a whole generation.

Dr Sri Subramanian from the Department of Computer Science has been leading a project examining the use of interactive technology in school classrooms in India.

Tiny sensors tucked into cell phones could map airborne toxins in real time May 13, 2010 By Susan Brown A tiny flake of silicon can be engineered to respond to a wide range of chemical hazards.

PASADENA, Calif.—A team of scientists from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have programmed an autonomous molecular "robot" made out of DNA to start, move, turn, and stop while following a DNA track.

Researchers from UCL have developed a digital tool that allows people to attach memories to objects in the form of text, audio or video.

Princeton engineers are leading a research center that brings together scientists and engineers from multiple universities to determine how to improve the speed, reliability and energy-efficiency of tomorrow's computer systems while reducing their cost.

It brings together 160 research groups from several faculties, specialised hospitals and institutes across UCL, including the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), with a common interes