Medical News

(The Hastings Center) A new Hastings Center Special Report calls on bioethics to 'broaden its lens' to improve the experience of aging and tackle problems of injustice affecting older adults and caregivers.

Videos On this week's episode Roger Entner of Recon Analytics gives his take on the new credit card-sized Palm device and discusses the recently announced bidders participating in the FCC's 24 GHz and 28 GHz spectrum auc...

News New houses could soon deliver on a long-awaited promise and incorporate windows or roof tiles that harvest solar energy, research conducted at KAUST suggests. Derya Baran, at the KAUST Solar Center... Contributed Au...

Article iRIScope creates a standardized, easily monitored cleaning and disinfection process for flexible endoscopes. Staff Author: Daniel Seeger Topics: Surgical Products

News Surgical Innovation Associates, a start-up medical device company, announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for DuraSorbTM Monofilament Mesh, an advanced bioabsorbable technologies for reconstruc...

News Google plans to start charging smartphone makers to pre-install apps like Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps on Android handsets sold in Europe, a response to a record $5 billion antitrust fine imposed by the European U...

Videos Purdue University researchers have advanced a sticker solution moving it several steps closer to reality. The research was recently published in ACS Advanced Materials and Interfaces... Contributed Author: Purdue ...

News Sandia National Laboratories helped design the first generation of fueling stations for hydrogen-powered cars so that they're as safe as conventional gas stations. Now, Sandia is working to do the same for the next ...

Videos "Ladder Climbing with the Snake Robot" is a video that was released last year by Kyoto University's Matsuno Lab, and it is still drawing stares and shivers. Contributed Author: Nancy Owano , Tech Xplore Topics: Ro...

Product Announcement DuPont Transportation & Advanced Polymers is introducing Crastin® thermoplastic PBT polyester resins for applications in the fast growing electric/hybrid-electric vehicle market. "We're delighted to...

Product Announcement C&K announced the launch of its new BDB DIP switches. The traditional full-profile DIP switch delivers a new generation price-competitive solution for all applications that require a reliable DIP swi...

Product Announcement Global technology leader Laird announced the release of its new Bluetooth 5 module series, which simplifies the process of bringing wireless designs to market. The BL651 Series is the latest addition...

Product Announcement Heilind Electronics is now offering a broad variety of reed switches from Standex Electronics. Standex's portfolio includes a diverse selection of magnetic reed switches covering the majority of low ...

News OmniVision Technologies, Inc. announced the OS02C10, a 2.9-micron, 2-megapixel image sensor with breakthrough ultra-low-light (ULL) technology. Combining ULL with OmniVision's industry-leading Nyxel(tm)... Contribut...

News Just like their biological counterparts, hardware that mimics the neural circuitry of the brain requires building blocks that can adjust how they synapse, with some connections strengthening at the expense of others...

News In late July of 2008 a British solar plane set an unofficial flight-endurance record by remaining aloft for more than three days straight. Lithium-sulfur batteries emerged as one of the great technological advances....

News Members of the open-source Telecom Infra Project (TIP), including Aricent, announced a partnership with India's Tech Mahindra to develop a virtualized LTE RAN reference platform under the guidance of CableLabs. Staf...

News Graphene Flagship researchers have shown in a paper published in Science Advanceshow heterostructures built from graphene and topological insulators have strong, proximity induced spin-orbit coupling... Contributed ...

News Hacker attacks on everything from social media accounts to government files could be largely prevented by the advent of quantum communication, which would use particles of light called "photons" to secure... Contrib...

News A new study shows that terahertz data links, which may play a role in ultra-high-speed wireless data networks of the future, aren't as immune to eavesdropping as many researchers have assumed. The research... Contri...

News It's now possible to check in automatically at Shanghai's Hongqiao airport using facial recognition technology, part of an ambitious rollout of facial recognition systems in China that has raised privacy concerns......

News A new infrared telescope designed and built by astronomers at ANU and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the US will be the first of its kind to monitor the entire northern sky in search of new cosm...