Medical News
Samsung's 1Q Profit Slides on Falling Chip Prices
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 19:04
News Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday its operating profit for the last quarter declined more than 60% from a year earlier because of falling chip prices and sluggish demands for its display panels. Contributed Autho...
How Would You Survive on Mars?
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 18:00
Videos The Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats Institute is working to ensure that the first long-term settlement on other planetary bodies are safe from hazards such as a meteoroid colliding with the moon or violent san...
Squid Skin Inspires Trendy Material for Blanket, Clothes, and Buildings
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 18:00
News Squid skin is inspiring engineers in the design of an adaptive space blanket. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a space blanket that provides users with the ability to control their ...
Tracking Cattle Across Australia's Farmland
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 17:04
News Founded in May 2017, mOOvement is a company that has tracked cattle across the farms of Australia with their own GPS Ear Tag. The system enables farmers to keep tabs on their cattle herds, stay up to date... Staff A...
Best of April: Stratolaunch's First Flight and the Unbreakable Guitar
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 17:02
Blog We're already at the end of April, boy does time fly! A lot went down this month in the engineering space. For a rundown of the top five ECN stories of the month, check out the list below... Staff Author: Jennifer D...
Aircraft Powered by Variable-Buoyancy Propulsion Takes Flight
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 17:00
Videos In a team effort, the first ever large-scale aircraft powered by variable buoyancy propulsion was developed and flown. Dubbed the Phoenix, it is designed to repeatedly transition from being lighter than air to bei...
Coffee Machine Helps Physicists to Make Ion Traps More Efficient
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 17:00
News Scientists from ITMO University have developed and applied a new method for analyzing the electromagnetic field inside ion traps. For the first time, they explained the field deviations inside nonlinear radio-freque...
Washington Cyberteam Stands up to Protect DOD Infrastructure
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 16:58
News As the use of technology increases, so makes the threat of a dangerous cyber attack that can shut down our utilities, cripple our transportation system and threaten our democracy. For several years, the Washington.....
Aerial Imaging of Plant Heights Could Help Farmers Manage Field Crops More Effectively
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 16:56
News Monitoring the growth patterns of crop plants provides farmers with a strong indication of potential yield, allowing them to tweak crop management to boost production. Now, KAUST researchers have demonstrated... Con...
Greek Researchers Enlist EU Satellite Against Aegean Sea Litter
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 16:54
News Knee-deep in water on a picture-postcard Lesbos island beach, a team of Greek university students gently deposits a wall-sized PVC frame on the surface before divers moor it at sea. Holding in plastic bags... Contri...
Walmart Experiments with AI to Monitor Stores in Real Time
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 16:52
News Who's minding the store? In the not-too-distant future it could be cameras and sensors that can tell almost instantly when bruised bananas need to be swapped for fresh ones and more cash registers need to... Contrib...
The Drawing Board: A Quantum Jump Into the Future for Display Technology
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 16:50
Blog As its name implies, "The Drawing Board" column, each month, often discusses innovations that look highly promising in the laboratory but aren't quite ready for prime time. On occasion, that requires perusing... Con...
Decoupled Graphene Thanks to Potassium Bromide
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 16:48
News The use of potassium bromide in the production of graphene on a copper surface can lead to better results. When potassium bromide molecules arrange themselves between graphene and copper, it results in... Contribute...
New Technique Could Pave the Way for Simple Color Tuning of LED Bulbs
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 16:46
News Volkmar Dierolf and an international team demonstrate the possibility of tuning the color of a GaN LED by changing the time sequence at which the operation current is provided to the device. A new technique... Contr...
SFF-TA-1002 Compliant Sliver Card Edge Connectors
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 16:38
Product Announcement TE Connectivity (TE) announced its new Sliver card edge connectors have been adopted as the standard connector design into the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Small Form Factor Technol...
The Ruggedized KM6-HD Subrack System Designed to Meet MIL-STD 167
Medical Design Technology - 30 Apr 2019 16:00
Product Announcement Designed for use in rail, military, aerospace and other harsh operating environments where electronic equipment will be subject to shock and vibration during use, the ruggedized KM6-HD subrack system...
Gender impacts brain activity in alcoholics
EurekAlert! - 30 Apr 2019 08:00
(Boston University School of Medicine) Compared to alcoholic women, alcoholic men have more diminished brain activity in areas responsible for emotional processing (limbic regions including the amygdala and hippocampus),...
Can stress in the womb lead to mental resilience later in life?
EurekAlert! - 30 Apr 2019 08:00
(Frontiers) Maternal stress during or after pregnancy has been repeatedly associated with subsequent psychiatric problems and non-coding 'epigenetic' DNA changes during childhood. Published in Frontiers in Genetics, a st...
Analysis of old people's civic participation
EurekAlert! - 30 Apr 2019 08:00
(University of Barcelona) A team of the University of Barcelona has analysed the research carried out over the last 55 years on old people's civic participation. The available evidence shows civic participation has a pos...
New 3D imaging and visualization technique provides detailed views of muscle architecture
EurekAlert! - 30 Apr 2019 08:00
(University of Missouri-Columbia) In a new study, scientists in pathology and anatomical sciences in the University of Missouri's School of Medicine have revealed a three-dimensional view of the skeletal muscles responsi...
Do you smell what I smell?
EurekAlert! - 30 Apr 2019 08:00
(Monell Chemical Senses Center) A new study from the Monell Center and collaborating institutions sheds light on understanding the extensive individual differences in how we sense odors. By showing that small changes in ...
Nanomaterials mimicking natural enzymes with superior catalytic activity and selectivity
EurekAlert! - 30 Apr 2019 08:00
(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) A KAIST research team doped nitrogen and boron into graphene to selectively increase peroxidase-like activity and succeeded in synthesizing a peroxidase-mi...