For those without hearing, the use of mobile phones has been limited to text messages. But technology is being upgraded enough for a group of researchers from Cornell University and colleagues have now created mobile phones that enable deaf people to communicate in sign language, just as normal with people with hearing to discuss phone use.

Sheila Hemami, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Cornell University, conducts the research with Eve Riskin and Richard Ladner, University of Washington. (more…)

Samsung present two developments within the range of its Flash memories for smart-phones and similar devices by announcing it will begin to apply the technology of 30 nanometers in the process of manufacturing such chips, resulting in new memories moviNAND from 64GB and memory cards microSDHC from 32GB. (more…)

A high incidence of cancer that is currently registered in southeastern China may have been favored by a group of Siberian volcanoes scattered across the Earth ash 250 million years ago, according to a new study.

Nonsmoking women in Xuan Wei County, Yunnan Province, China, have the highest known rate in the world in incidence of lung cancer in this group, and researchers believe that the answer lies in coal than women this province used for heating and cooking. (more…)

In an effort to fill gaps in knowledge on key ocean processes, ocean sciences division of the U.S. National Foundation for Science (NSF) has allocated nearly a million dollars to finance the work of a team of scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. The team will develop a new generation of robots for ocean exploration.

Jules Jaffe and Peter Franks will lead a group of scientists responsible for designing and deploying autonomous underwater explorers, or AUEs. The AUEs capture the details of oceanographic processes critical for many tiny inhabitants of the marine environment.

Although the scientific community is able to obtain details of large-scale ocean processes, marine scientists has arisen between the need to focus on more localized areas. By monitoring more specific areas of currents, temperature, salinity, pressure and biological properties of AUEs provide valuable new information on various ocean phenomena. (more…)