Medical News
DARPA Identifies Teams Qualified to Compete in First Scored Event of SubT Challenge
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 19:42
News Eleven teams from around the world will attempt to remotely map, identify, and report the greatest number of artifacts along the passages of a Pittsburgh research mine in the Subterranean Challenge Tunnel... Contrib...
Making Custom Lenses Without Costly Molds
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 23:33
News Traditional lens manufacturing methods have required the use of costly metal molds, thus preventing lens makers from being able to easily tool a variety of lens shapes and sizes. Researchers from Washington State Un...
Cement as a Climate Killer: Using Industrial Waste to Produce Carbon Neutral Alternatives
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 23:23
News A team of geoscientists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has found a way to produce more environmentally friendly and sustainable alternatives to cement... Contributed Author: MARTIN-LUTHER-UNIVE...
Getting Vaccines to Remote Areas Safely, Without Cold Storage
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 22:32
News A key challenge facing the medical supply chain is safely storing and transporting vaccines to remote and impoverished global regions. To meet this challenge, researchers at McMaster University have devised a means ...
Pushy Bonobo Moms Help Their Sons Get Lucky
Discover - 21 May 2019 22:14
(Credit: Gudkov Andrey/Shutterstock) Seeing anyone special? Thinking about having kids? When am I going to have some grandchildren? Many moms nag their adult children about the prospect of grandchildren. But bonobo moms ...
Road to Cell Death Mapped in the Alzheimer's Brain
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 21:55
News Scientists have identified a new mechanism that accelerates aging in the brain and gives rise to the most devastating biological features of Alzheimer's disease... Contributed Author: VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE To...
3-D Grayscale Digital Light Printing (G-DLP) Highly Functionally Graded Materials (FGM
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 19:32
News In a recent study, Xiao Kuang and colleagues at the interdisciplinary departments of Mechanical Engineering, Nanobiomechanics and Advanced Structure Technology in China and Canada presented a single-vat grayscale di...
Oculus Quest Standalone VR Headset Launches
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 19:21
News Facebook-owned Oculus launched the fully standalone Oculus Quest VR headset today, hoping to generate mainstream appeal for VR, a technology that has not quite garnered the widespread adoption some had hyped. Staff ...
Stem cell differences could explain why women are more likely to develop adrenal cancer
EurekAlert! - 21 May 2019 06:00
(Worldwide Cancer Research ) Scientists have discovered a potential biological reason why women are more likely to develop adrenal disorders, including cancer. According to the researchers, the answer could lie in the in...
Huawei: US Controls Have 'No Impact,' Talking to Google
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 17:27
News The founder of Huawei expressed confidence Washington's curbs on sales to the Chinese tech giant will have little impact and said Tuesday it is discussing "emergency relief" from Google for possible loss of services...
Virtual Health Technology Among Capabilities Tested During JWA 19
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 17:13
News Members of the Regional Health Command-Pacific team recently executed virtual health capabilities testing with partner agencies during the U.S. Army's largest annual joint-multinational live exercise. The... Contrib...
Planet-Hunter CubeSat Images Los Angeles
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 17:09
News A small satellite designed to hunt for new planets beyond the solar system recently looked down at Earth to capture an image of California's "City of Stars." The greater Los Angeles area stands out in these... Contr...
Air Force Leaders Strengthen Community Ties, Engage Students at JB Andrews Air & Space Expo
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 17:02
News To bolster the long-standing bond between Joint Base Andrews and the local community, Air Force senior leaders interacted with local science, technology, engineering and mathematics students at the JB Andrews... Con...
Engineers Design Solutions to Tackle Low-Frequency Noise
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 16:55
News Low frequency noise (500 Hertz and lower), which could stem from various sources such as construction machineries and aircrafts, is a form of environmental noise problem in urban environments. Such noise... Contribu...
Dog-Like Robot Made by Stanford Students Jumps, Flips and Trots
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 16:50
Videos Putting their own twist on robots that amble through complicated landscapes, the Stanford Student Robotics club's Extreme Mobility team has developed a four-legged robot that is not only capable of performing... C...
Hyperspectral Camera Captures Wealth of Data in an Instant
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 16:43
News Standard snapshots from space don't quite show Earth in all its glory. There's so much more to see. To reveal details impossible to observe with the naked eye, Rice University engineers are building a portable... Co...
Smart Device Detects Food Contaminants in Real Time
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 16:41
News Some consumers place importance on locally grown or organic food. Others want the products they purchase to look and taste good. Yet others focus on low prices. However, no matter what their other requirements... Co...
'Spidey Senses' Could Help Autonomous Machines See Better
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 16:38
News What if drones and self-driving cars had the tingling "spidey senses" of Spider-Man? They might actually detect and avoid objects better, says Andres Arrieta, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering... Cont...
Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 16:34
News DARPA has awarded funding to six organizations to support the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program, first announced in March 2018. Battelle Memorial Institute, Carnegie Mellon University... Contr...
Scientists at DGIST Develop Polariton Nano-Laser Operating at Room Temperature
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 15:08
News A room temperature polariton nano-laser has been demonstrated, providing the crucial path of related research such as polariton physics at the nanoscale and also applications in quantum information systems... Contri...
Watch This Robot Fly and Crawl Around Obstacles
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 15:02
Videos When an obstacle is in its way, the flying sprawl-tuned autonomous robot (FSTAR) can either fly over it or crawl beneath it. Developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, the drone can fly... ...
Mini Displayport Added to Cliff's FeedThrough Connecter Range
Medical Design Technology - 21 May 2019 14:30
Product Announcement Cliff Electronics announces the addition of a Mini Displayport to its market leading range of FeedThrough connectors. Assembled into an industry standard XLR connector panel cut out the Mini DisplayP...