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In-home monitors detect behavioral patterns and predict medical emergencies. Simple hardware combined with behavioral mathematics is helping seniors live free of nursing homes. Intel and General Electric's joint healthcare product, QuietCare , uses infrared sensors, like those used for motion-sensing light switches, to monitor patients as they move throughout their home and alert medical staff to deviant behavior that suggests a medical threat.

A new microscope invented by scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus will let researchers use an exquisitely thin sheet of light -- similar to that used in supermarket bar-code scanners -- to peer inside single living cells, revealing the three-dimensional shapes of cellular landmarks in unprecedented detail. The microscopy technique images at high speed, so researchers can create dazzling movies that make biological processes, such as cell division, come alive.

More cowbell! Everyone from Christopher Walken enthusiasts to major record labels to Columbia University is excited about The Echo Nest. The many uses, frivolous and non-, of Echo Nest's massive 30-million-song dataset. You music lovers out there probably think we're living in a Golden Age.

It has happened to everyone. You can’t recall a name or you forget your credit card PIN number.

Illustrations by Shingo Shimizu Breakthroughs in materials science mean greener, cleaner, and safer spaces. We take a closer peek at three that amaze. .h2{ color:rgb(0,113,146) !important; clear:both !important; } .p{ font-size:11.5px !important; clear:both !important; } #float_box { width:580px; margin:10px auto; } #bird_windows { width:250px; margin-right:20px; float:left; } #bird_windows img { margin-bottom:10px; } #liquid_glass { width:300px; float:right; } #liquid_glass img { margin-bottom:10px; } Heat-Releasing Walls To keep a room cool, just let the walls melt

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By Philip Ball The first microscopes were a lot better than they are usually given credit for. [More]

You've heard about the lovely and amazing , now let's hear about the duds of TED. “Only 5% of TED Talks have been given by CEOs,” Pepsi chief Indra Nooyi observed from the stage at TED, before going on to demonstrate why. Her bland recitation of the accomplishments of Pepsi Refresh , a decent, though hardly groundbreaking corporate social responsibility program, had some attendees wondering if it was a paid product placement.

Wes Leonard went into cardiac arrest after making a game-winning shot in a high school basketball game. A medical examiner ruled his untimely death was the result of an enlarged heart.

In the last few years NASA has built and launched two world-class climate satellites, both of which promised invaluable new data on the natural and human influences on Earth's changing climate. Neither of them, however, will ever deliver the data that climate scientists so eagerly expected from them.

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SeeYourImpact.org rewards acts of micro-charity with photographs and stories of the impact donors make.

To celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, author Adam Hargreaves has created a New "Mr.