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News When spies meet, they use secret handshakes to confirm their identities, ensuring they are who they say they are. Now, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology, and colleagues, have solved a 15-year-old... Con...

Industry Brief The global prosthetic heart valves market is expected to reach $1.4bn by 2028, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 2.5 percent, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company....

Article Makers of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) continue to improve their products for longer lifetime, higher efficiency and brightness, and other performance factors. With these enhancements, LEDs are paving the way... ...

News The International Space Station is back up at full power, after the successful replacement of a failed electrical box. Flight controllers completed the repair work Thursday, operating the station's big robot arm... ...

Article Continuous airflow measurements during anesthesia monitoring and intensive care treatment, as well as in clinical and ambulatory environments, provides important information for the assessment of cardiorespirator...

Article Hopes that the tech industry was on the cusp of rolling personal robots into homes are dimming now that several once-promising consumer robotics companies have shut down... Contributed Author: Matt O'brien Topics...

News FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on Wednesday sent letters to CEOs of the top four U.S. carriers, seeking updates on the companies' respective efforts to stop selling customers' real-time location information to...

News Conversing through voice, compared to text, enhances the connection users have with a virtual assistant. This can lead to better attitudes toward the technology, according to a study by Penn State graduate student E...

News The Hong Kong Polytechnic University shared that more youngsters can have their scoliosis conditions detected early and monitored frequently, thanks to the portable imaging system developed by PolyU's experts in sco...

Article Each year, hundreds of Canadians die waiting for organ transplants. At the end of 2017, for example, 4,333 people were waiting for transplants; 242 of them died... Contributed Author: Nicole Robitaille, The Conve...

Blog You may have noted that with the first signs of spring come an abundance of media messages reminding you that this is also the beginning of tick season... Contributed Author: Jade Savage, The Conversation Topics: Ho...

News A urinary tract infection can be painful at any age, with the burning sensations, frequent urges and pressure. It can be even worse and more dangerous for those who may not be able to communicate clearly what is hap...

News Small enough to be an aircraft carry-on, the Juventas spacecraft nevertheless has big mission goals. Once in orbit around its target body, Juventas will unfurl an antenna larger than itself, to perform the very... C...

News Long before scientists test new medicines in animals or people, they study the effects of the substances on cells growing in Petri dishes. However, a 2D layer of cells is a poor substitute for the much more complex ...

News Researchers are teasing out what exactly happens to cartilage as a result of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. The team hopes that this insight can be utilized in the development of improved osteoarthritis ...

Videos Shrinky Dinks--sheets of polystyrene plastic that kids can draw on and cook to make jewelry, toys, and more--are being used to make durable grippers that could be the foundation of future materials or be used in s...

Blog Russia and China have recently touted their progress in developing hypersonic vehicles, which fly much faster than the speed of sound, which is 767 mph. Hypersonic missiles are rocket-boosted to high altitude... Con...

News To meet the demands of an electric future, new battery technologies will be essential. One option is lithium sulfur batteries, which offer a theoretical energy density more than five times that of lithium ion batter...

Videos Levita Magnetics announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted the company an expanded indication to market the first-of-its-kind Levita Magnetic Surgical System for use in prostatectomy procedu...

News Take a moment to enjoy these sunrise and sunset photos on Mars, brought to you by NASA's InSight lander. The camera on its robotic arm took the images on the mission's 145th Martian day (sol)... Staff Author: Jennif...

News Last year, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) revealed its industrial robot report for 2016. Now, the 2017 numbers have been released--how do the stats compare? In 2016, there was an average... Staff Aut...

Videos A Southwest Research Institute methane leak detection system is taking flight as part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) project to develop automated inspections... C...