News tagged with design
U-M's concept of value-based insurance design featured in major health policy journal
Value-Based Insurance Design -- a concept created at the University of Michigan and incorporated in the nation's new health care reform law -- is the focus of an upcoming national policy journal.
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Restaurants could cut energy use in half, report says
Coffee shops and fast-food eateries could reduce their energy use more than 50 percent with ultra-efficient appliances, lights and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems and other integrated design ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Study challenges conventional theory of modern drug design
Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered new evidence that challenges the current theory about a process key to the way modern drugs are designed and how they work in the human body.
Oct 10, 2010 |
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Current decisions shape your future preferences
Psychologists have known for a long time that after you make a choice, you adjust your opinion to think better of the thing you chose. Now a new study has found that this is true even if you don't know the options that you're ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Researchers tap into cell power to create building 'skins' that adapt to heat/light of environment
Engineers, design architects and cell biologists from the University of Pennsylvania will use a National Science Foundation grant to utilize the flexibility and sensitivity of human cells as the models for ...
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Emotional robot pets
Designers of robot pets are fighting a never-ending battle with consumers to provide entertaining and realistic gadgets that respond to human interaction in ever more nuanced ways, mimicking the behavior of real pet animals ...
Sep 17, 2010 |
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From chemical engineering to the catwalk
Seamless fabric that can be sprayed on to skin and other surfaces to make clothes, medical bandages and even upholstery will be demonstrated this Thursday, in advance of the Science in Style spray-on fashion show next week ...
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Paris building to be warmed by commuters' body heat
(PhysOrg.com) -- Paris Habitat, owner of a low-income public housing project in Paris, is planning to use the excess body heat of commuters in a subway station beneath it to warm an apartment building.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Cracking flight's mysteries: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a microrobot
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards, ...
Sep 06, 2010 |
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Businesses see advantage in green buildings
The Subway sandwich shop on Chicago's State Street may look like any other new restaurant, but its tile, crown molding and most wall coverings are made from recycled materials. In the bathroom, sensors control water flow, ...
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Microrobots: Miniature auto differential helps tiny aerial robots stay aloft
Engineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards, forest fires, ...
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Cluster turns the invisible into the visible
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cluster has spent a decade revealing previously hidden interactions between the Sun and Earth. Its studies have uncovered secrets of aurora, solar storms, and given us insight into fundamental ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Leading design software AutoCAD returns to Macintosh computers
Autodesk announced Monday that its AutoCAD software used by professionals to design everything from skyscrapers to pocket knives is reuniting with the Macintosh computer platform.
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Innovation, reinvented
A carmaker reports that design time on a new model dropped from six months to just one, thanks to new tools for innovation and collaboration developed by European researchers. The way companies get and develop good ideas ...
Aug 16, 2010 |
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Branding in a new light
Illuminated and neon signs outside businesses have contributed to brand identity for some years. But researchers are now evaluating how selecting a universal lighting design for stores can also send out branding signals to ...
Aug 16, 2010 |
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