A new study by U.K.’s National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that despite the common belief that air pollution was an unavoidable by-product of ...
Technologie bringt Querschnittsgelähmten Handfunktion zurück
Wissenschaftler an der Universität Tübingen haben ein Hand-Exoskelett entwickelt mit dem die Handfunktion von Querschschnittsgelähmten nahezu vollstä ...
Forscher entwickeln selbstständig treppensteigenden Rollstuhl
An der TU München haben Wissenschaftler einen treppensteigenden Rollstuhl entwickelt, der sich selbst stabilisieren kann. Damit sind Menschen, die auf ...
Health Big Data of 500 largest US cities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation started the 500 Cities Project jointly with the CDC and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ...
Daimler fördert Gesundheit seiner Mitarbeiter
Deutschlandweit sollen Gesundheitschecks für alle Beschäftigten angeboten werden. Teil der Vereinbarung ist aber auch ein Bonus für Mitarbeiter, die ...
Smog alert in Paris
Paris the second European capital, besides London, that suffers from heavy levels of smog this week. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has banned all cars with odd- ...
Wearable device to help Parkinson patient to write
BBC has started a series where people in need can draw on help from experts and top inventors in the UK. In the first episode 29-year old graphic designer ...
How to keep staff healthy by office design
The awards-winnning “The Edge” is a business tower in Amsterdam that aims at making the staff happy and productive by design. 20,000 sensors ...
The next level of smart health: sweat bio-sensors
A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, develops wearable sweat bio-sensors to receive molecular information of the human body. ...
IBM and Pfitzer draw on big data for medical research
The big data technology of IBM will be applied to improve Pfizer’s research in immuno-oncology. Big data and literature from different sources will be ...
