Medical News
Laser Drill Leads to World Record in Plasma Acceleration
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 23:47
News Using a laser to drill through a plasma, scientists working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have set a new world record for plasma accelerators: In a plasma tube only 20 centimetres... Contrib...
Epilepsy: Triangular relationship in the brain
EurekAlert! - 25 Feb 2019 09:00
(University of Bonn) When an epileptic seizure occurs in the brain, the nerve cells lose their usual pattern and fire in a very fast rhythm. The cause is a complex interplay of various factors. Scientists at the Universi...
Media & Platform Companies That Ignore Blockchain Do so at Their Own Risk
Medical Design Technology - 26 Feb 2019 00:34
Blog Media and platform companies are encountering headwinds from every direction--from new digital players, to consumers' evolving content preferences, to an influx of digital technologies rendering old models obsolete....
Tech Mahindra Drives Collaborative Disruption with 5G Partners with netOps.ai Framework
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 21:42
News Tech Mahindra Ltd. has announced netOps.ai, Tech Mahindra's Network Automation and Managed Services Framework. The company has conducted a live demonstration of its netOps.ai framework at Mobile World Congress 2019....
Sprint to Launch Mobile 5G in May, Announces New Partnerships
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 20:59
News At MWC 2019 in Barcelona Sprint executives announced the carrier's mobile 5G network will launch in four cities in May. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Carriers
Qualcomm Debuts CPE Reference Design for Fixed Wireless 5G Broadband
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 19:43
News With its next-generation chipset already powering the first 5G smartphones, Qualcomm has now debuted a 5G CPE reference design built to help manufacturers develop 5G-capable fixed wireless home gateway products. Sta...
Distributed Wireless Sensing Designed for Demanding Applications
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 18:39
Product Announcement LORD Sensing, MicroStrain has launched three innovations for 2019: two new wireless temperature nodes, which allow users to remotely collect data from a range of temperature sensor types, as well as ...
Warning Issued over Attacks on Internet Infrastructure
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 18:33
News Key parts of the internet infrastructure face large-scale attacks that threaten the global system of web traffic, the internet's address keeper warned Friday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and... Contr...
Japan's Probe Briefly Landed on an Asteroid to Shoot It with a Bullet
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 18:04
Videos Japan's Hayabusa2 probe successfully landed on the Ryugu asteroid that's 300 million km away, to collect samples that could point to the origin of the solar system and life itself. The probe didn't stay long... St...
Electric Car Batteries Inspire Safer, Cheaper Way to Make Compounds Used in Medicines
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 18:00
News Recent advances in battery technology, from the engineering of their cases to the electrochemistry that takes place inside them, has enabled the rapid rise of Teslas, Leafs, Volts and other electric cars... Contribu...
Bajaboard Boosts Ego with 45 mph Skateboard
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 18:00
News Bajaboard has created the Pantera, an electric skateboard that can zoom around at speeds of 45 mph. The company says they're looking at this as an ego-thing, a show-off thing, like a supercar... Staff Author: Tierne...
How to Break Down Work Into Tasks That Can be Automated
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 18:00
News Virtually every organization is wrestling and experimenting with automation. But most are missing the benefits that come from deep and systemic change. One of the largest failings, in our estimation, is that organiz...
Developing Environmentally Friendly Membrane for Rain Jackets
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 18:00
News As part of his master's project, the chemical engineer Mario Stucki developed a breathable, environmentally friendly membrane for rain jackets. With his colleague, he has since founded the spin-off Dimpora to market...
A Nonvolatile Spintronics-Based 50 uW Microcontroller Unit Operating at 200 MHz
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 17:50
News Researchers at Tohoku University have announced the development of a nonvolatile microcontroller unit (MCU) which achieves both high performance and ultra-low power by utilizing spintronics-based VLSI... Contributed...
Utilities Are Starting to Invest in Big Batteries Instead of Building New Power Plants
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 17:48
News Due to their decreasing costs, lithium-ion batteries now dominate a range of applications including electric vehicles, computers and consumer electronics. You might only think about energy storage when your laptop.....
Physicists Train the Oscillatory Neural Network to Recognize Images
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 17:46
News Physicists from Petrozavodsk State University have proposed a new method for oscillatory neural network to recognize simple images. Such networks with an adjustable synchronous state of individual neurons... Contrib...
Magnetization Reversal Achieved at Room Temperature Using Only an Electric Field
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 17:42
News Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology achieved magnetization reversal in cobalt-substituted bismuth ferrite by applying only an electric field. Such an effect had been sought after for over a decade in order.....
Achieving Greater Efficiency for Fast Data Center Operations
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 17:40
News Today's data centers eat up and waste a good amount of energy responding to user requests as fast as possible, with only a few microseconds delay. A new system by MIT researchers improves the efficiency... Contribut...
Embedded Motor Controller with Extended Memory for Automotive Applications
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 17:38
Product Announcement TDK Corporation (TSE 6762) expands its Micronas embedded motor controller portfolio with the HVC 4420F, featuring extended flash memory for the drive of small brush-type, stepper, or brushless motors...
New Layer of Medical Preparedness to Combat Emerging Infectious Disease
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 17:00
News DARPA has selected five teams to support PREventing EMerging Pathogenic Threats to reinforce traditional medical preparedness by containing viral infectious diseases in animal reservoirs and insect vectors before th...
Novel App Uses AI to Guide, Support Cancer Patients
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 17:00
News Artificial Intelligence is helping to guide and support some 50 breast cancer patients in rural Georgia through a novel mobile application that gives them personalized recommendations on everything from side effects...
Calling for More Rigorous Means of Monitoring AI Medical Applications
Medical Design Technology - 25 Feb 2019 17:00
News Health policy analysts have published a Policy Forum in Science calling for a more rigorous means of monitoring and introducing AI medical applications. In their paper, they provide five standards they believe shoul...