Medical News

(Scripps Research Institute) The discoveries not only offer new directions for fighting the virulence of some of humanity's most dangerous pathogens, they have implications for our understanding of how life itself evolve...

News Video cameras continue to gain widespread use to monitor human activities for surveillance, health care, home use and more, but there are privacy and environmental limitations in how well they work. Acoustical waves...

News Computers and similar electronic devices have gotten faster and smaller over the decades as computer-chip makers have learned how to shrink individual transistors, the tiny electrical switches that convey digital in...

News For environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, infrastructure maintenance and certain security applications, slow and energy efficient can be better than fast and always needing a recharge. That's where "Sloth...

Videos Stanford University mechanical engineers have developed a more stable prosthetic leg--and a better way of designing them--that could make challenging terrain more manageable for... Contributed Author: Nathan Colli...

News Wearing a sensor-packed glove while handling a variety of objects, MIT researchers have compiled a massive dataset that enables an AI system to recognize objects through touch alone. The information could be... Cont...

News After years of making progress on an organic aqueous flow battery, Harvard University researchers ran into a problem: the organic anthraquinone molecules that powered their ground-breaking battery were slowly decomp...

News Combining big data with artificial intelligence has allowed University of Copenhagen researchers to determine whether you wrote your assignment or whether a ghostwriter penned it for you--with... Contributed Author:...

News An international team of researchers just published in Advanced Energy Materials the widest study on what happens during battery failure, focusing on the different parts of a battery at the same time... Contributed ...

News Sprint on Thursday announced its mobile 5G network is now live in four markets, covering nearly 3.6 million people from the onset. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Carriers

Article How often have you heard, "It's what's inside that counts?" This common saying applies to how engineers typically feel when it comes to electronic products, focusing on the tiny components that make the overall d...

News According to Coherent Market Insights, the global surgical lasers market was valued at US $1.4 billion in 2017, and is projected to exhibit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.4 percent over... Contributed Aut...

News A new device for collecting and purifying water, developed at The University of Texas at Austin, was inspired by a rose and, while more engineered than enchanted, dramatically improves on... Staff Author: Spencer Ch...

News The females of some bat species migrate hundreds of kilometers after hibernation to give birth to their offspring in insect-rich regions. Unlike birds, it is largely unknown how bats keep their energy consumption......

News Rats on campus, disruptive noise pollution, and costly deep-sea research seem to have nothing in common--except that they could all be solved using an engineering design approach. Students in the Harvard John A. Pau...

News More than 100 approved drugs in the U.S. warn of immune-related side effects on their labels. Countless others never make it onto shelves because of unwanted immune responses that can harm patients and limit the eff...

Product Announcement Flex Power Modules introduces the PKU-S series of DC-DC power modules for the industrial/railway and telecom sectors, to provide highly reliable, high performance and rugged DC-DC solutions. The modu...

(University of Saskatchewan) Concussion symptoms -- such as loss of balance and ability to walk straight -- can be reversed by a new type of magnetic stimulation

(Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center) New research out of Loma Linda University Health suggests that unsupportive parenting styles may have several negative health implications for children, even into ...

(NIH/National Cancer Institute) For all cancer sites combined, cancer death rates continued to decline in men, women, and children in the United States from 1999 to 2016. Overall cancer incidence rates, or rates of new c...

(Indiana University) A team of researchers from Indiana University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have been awarded a $4.1 million National Cancer Institute 'Cancer Moonshot' grant to develop immunotherapy tr...

(Princeton University) Princeton University researchers found that the enzyme Nocturnin, known for its role in fat metabolism and circadian rhythm, acts on two well-established molecules in metabolism. The discovery shed...