Medical News
Children Who Nap are Happier, Excel Academically, and Have Fewer Behavioral Problems: Study
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 16:18
News Ask just about any parent whether napping has benefits and you'll likely hear a resounding "yes," particularly for the child's mood, energy levels, and school performance. New research from... Contributed Author: Mi...
Simplifying Soft Robots
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 23:00
Videos A soft robot developed by researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) could pave the way to fully untethered robots for space exploration, search and rescue syste...
Dialog Semiconductor Accelerates IoT Adoption with New Ultra-Low Power Wi-Fi SoC.
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 22:35
Product Announcement Dialog Semiconductor plc (XETRA:DLG), a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, audio, charging and Bluetooth(R) low energy technology, today has introduced the FC9000...
Six Fingers per Hand
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 22:25
News In a case study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Freiburg, Imperial College London, the University Hospital of Lausanne, and EPFL have for the first time examined... Contributed...
Using a Simulation Framework to Study Spine Behaviors of Quadruped Robots
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 22:03
Videos Researchers at the Robert Bosch center for cyber physical systems in Bangalore, India, have recently proposed a simulation framework to systematically study the effects of spinal joint actuation on the... Contribu...
Analog Devices Announces Breakthrough Solution to Accelerate mmWave 5G Wireless Network Infrastructure
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 22:00
Product Announcement Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), the industry leader in RF and Microwave technology and system design for 5G infrastructure, today introduced a new solution for millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G with the highes...
Better Conservation Through Satellites
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 22:00
News The use of satellite telemetry in conservation is entering a "golden age," and is now being used to track the movements of individual animals at unprecedented scales. To determine the success or failure of satellite...
FDA Announces Project Facilitate to Assist Physicians Seeking Access to Unapproved Therapies for Patients with Cancer
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 21:51
News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oncology Center of Excellence announced a new pilot program to assist oncology health care professionals in requesting access to unapproved therapies for... Contributed Author: ...
Hearing Through Your Fingers: Device That Converts Speech
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 21:27
News A new proof-of-concept study provides the first evidence that a speech-to-touch sensory substitution device can improve hearing in the hearing-impaired without any training, report scientists in... Contributed Autho...
Solar Cell Defect Mystery Solved After Decades of Global Effort
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 20:54
News A team of scientists at the University of Manchester has solved a key flaw in solar panels after 40 years of research around the world. Solar panels are among the most available system of generating... Contributed A...
Cracking Open the Black Box of Automated Machine Learning
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 20:20
News Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed an interactive tool that, for the first time, lets users see and control how automated machine-learning systems work. The aim is to build confidence in these systems...
Enabling Safe, Low-Temperature Operation In Batteries
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 18:42
News Carnegie Mellon University's Venkat Viswanathan and a graduate students Shashank Sripad and Dilip Krishnamurthy are working to improve the safety of lithium ion batteries, which are common in devices such as smartph...
Google's Activities Under Scrutiny by US, Europe Regulators
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 18:27
News Google, the tech giant known universally for its search engine, also has fingers in a number of other pies, like online advertising, email messaging and video. That gives U.S. antitrust enforcers, who have reportedl...
NASA's Mars 2020 Gets HD Eyes
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 18:22
News One of the first operations the Mars 2020 rover will perform after touching down on the Red Planet's Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, will be to raise its remote sensing mast (RSM), which carries important optics and...
Tech Group Eases Stance on Huawei as Beijing Lashes Back
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 18:16
News The world's largest association of technology professionals backed away from barring from some of its activities employees of Chinese tech giant Huawei, the company at the center of a roiling trade dispute between W...
Economical Energy Storage for the Electric Car of Tomorrow
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 18:07
News Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden have developed a new production process with the aim of efficient and environmentally friendly future battery production. They....
Machine Learning for Sensors
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 17:58
News Today microcontrollers can be found in almost any technical device, from washing machines to blood pressure meters and wearables. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS ...
Connected Champagne Putting a Cork in Bogus Bubbly
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 17:52
News Champagne is now connected: Thanks to tracking technology, champagne houses now have tools to better guard against fraud while gaining a new channel to interact with their customers. Using a combination of unique......
Mutations Mean Gene-Edited Twin CRISPR Babies May Die Early
Discover - 3 Jun 2019 17:30
Jiankui He talks to Matthew Porteus of Stanford during a panel talk in Hong Kong following his presentation about his gene editing experiment on two twins. (Credit: Ernie Mastroianni/Discover) This past November, Jiankui...
Researchers Can Now Predict Properties of Disordered Polymers
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 17:10
News Thanks to a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, scientists are able to read patterns on long chains of molecules to understand and pre...
Tornado Outbreaks Reminder to Make Smartphones Disaster-Ready
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 16:00
News Tornadoes have torn their way across the country as the natural disaster season starts, leaving hundreds displaced from their homes and lives in disarray. During natural disasters like these, amid the immediate... C...
Only One in Five Doctors Aware of Patient Feedback About Their Care Online, Survey Reveals
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jun 2019 15:48
News Around one in five doctors are aware of patient feedback about themselves on review and ratings websites, according to a new survey of health professionals... Contributed Author: University of Warwick Topics: Medica...