July 26, 2012 – According to the World Health Organization 25 percent of women and 8 percent of men worldwide have felt the excruciating pain of a migraine headache. Symptoms, which vary from person to person, are often under-diagnosed or blamed on inflamed sinuses. A SURF-IT su

July 19, 2012 – Over the course of the last several decades, computer engineers have loaded more and more transistors onto the chips that form the backbone of electronic devices. This has led to faster data processing and greatly enhanced memory and computing capabilities. It al

July 12, 2012 – Large appliances like refrigerators, washing machines, clothes dryers and freezers have always guzzled the lion’s share of residential electricity. These days, however, they have stiff competition in the form of much smaller devices, as the audience at this week’

June 27, 2012 – UC Irvine will anchor a new $12.5 million, Intel-funded research center that applies social science and humanities to the design and analysis of digital information. “Technology is profoundly entangled with our everyday lives. As researchers, we can’t