Medical News

(University of Eastern Finland) A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that a moderately high intake of dietary cholesterol or consumption of up to one egg per day is not associated with an elevated ris...

News Drawing inspiration from biology and the toy shelf, researchers have developed a swimming robot with a light-controlled cellular engine that can perform highly-targeted drug delivery... Contributed Author: Dartmouth...

News Bomb squad teams from New Mexico and beyond are converging at Sandia National Laboratories for a five-day Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise where emergency preparedness skills will be put to the test... Contribute...

News Greenhouse gases are not seen as healthy for the environment, but researchers at Stanford University believe the type of gas released would still be an improveme... Sustainability, a process has been developed to......

News Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia Engineering has shown that cube-shaped nanoparticles, or nanocubes, coated with single-stranded DNA chains assemble i...

News Claude Aiken, president and CEO of the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA), questioned whether the merger would stifle broadband investment from smaller operators already providing service in are...

News Dish Network is scooping up more EchoStar assets, announcing Monday plans to acquire the company's Broadcast Satellite Service (BSS) business in an all-stock deal valued at $800 million. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher...

News Owlstone Medical has announced a strategic collaboration with Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd. to discover and validate a breath-based test to help facilitate the early diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension and its subty...

News Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working to improve imaging methods in order to make medicine more precise and personalized. This work will be a critical component of a new interdisciplinary researc...

Blog Gigabit-Class LTE delivers important 5G capabilities today while providing a pathway to full 5G. Contributed Author: Todd Krautkremer, CMO Cradlepoint Topics: Carriers

News In the distant future, teams of Soldiers equipped with high-powered exoskeletons disembark a series of autonomous personnel carriers outside the enemy's position. Overhead, a small fleet of drones scans... Contribut...

News Huawei could lose its grip on the No. 2 ranking in worldwide cellphone sales after Google announced it would comply with U.S. government restrictions meant to punish the Chinese tech powerhouse. Contributed Author: ...

News In Utah, drones are hovering near avalanches to watch roaring snow. In North Carolina, they're searching for the nests of endangered birds. In Kansas, they could soon be identifying sick cows through heat signatures...

News Colonies of social insects are capable of self-organizing and accomplishing complex tasks through individual interactions. For example, to march across large gaps, ants grip the bodies of each other, forming... Cont...

News NASA astronaut Anne McClain performs the first series of tests of an Astrobee robot, Bumble, during a hardware checkout. To her right is the docking station that was installed in the Kibo module on the International...

News Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a wearable patch that could provide personalized cooling and heating at home, work, or on the go. The soft, stretchy patch cools or warms... Contrib...

News A fleet of driverless cars working together to keep traffic moving smoothly can improve overall traffic flow by at least 35 percent, researchers have shown. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge... Contr...

Videos Semiconductors, which are the basic building blocks of transistors, microprocessors, lasers, and LEDs, have driven advances in computing, memory, communications, and lighting technologies since the... Contributed ...

News Researchers in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering recently received a $389,919 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate, explore and innovate new flying mechanisms... Contribu...

News Imagine a battlefield where Soldiers have access to near-real time video transmitted back to them on a handheld device. Program Executive Office Soldier (PEO Soldier) fielded the first personal Unmanned... Contribut...

News Governments are becoming ever more reliant on digital technology, making them more vulnerable to cyber attacks. In 2007, Estonia was attacked by pro-Russian hackers who crippled government servers.... Contributed Au...

News Philips Lumify, a point-of-care ultrasound device, has earned the U.S. Army Airworthiness Certification after passing a series of rigorous military tests. This certification now allows Philips Lumify, to be added to...