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Two Hours in Nature Each Week Could Be All You Need to See Health Benefits
Discover - 13 Jun 2019 23:12
(Credit: photo-nic.co.uk nic/Unsplash) By now, you probably know that spending time in nature -- hiking through a forest, walking through a park, even hanging out on a beach -- is good for your health. There has been man...
Research Reveals Liquid Gold on the Nanoscale
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 22:54
News The research published in Nature Communications set out to answer a simple question-- how do nanoparticles melt? Although this question has been a focus of researchers for the past century, it still is an open probl...
Soon, Air Pollution Could Be Measured on Every Street Corner
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 22:30
News Air pollution is responsible for 550,000 premature deaths a year in Europe and 7 million worldwide, according to the WHO. Measuring it can be a challenge, however, as the equipment tends to be large and expensive. B...
Half of Ebola Outbreaks Go Undetected, Study Finds
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 21:59
News Half of Ebola outbreaks have gone undetected since the virus was discovered in 1976, scientists at the University of Cambridge estimate. The new findings come amid rising concern about Ebola in... Contributed Author...
Making the 'Human-Body Internet' More Effective
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 21:30
News Wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth have made remote connectivity easier, and as electronics become smaller and faster, the adoption of "wearables" has increased. From smart watches to implantables... ...
National Maglab Creates World-Record Magnetic Field with Small, Compact Coil
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 21:24
Videos A novel magnet half the size of a cardboard toilet tissue roll usurped the title of "world's strongest magnetic field" from the metal titan that had held it for two decades at the Florida State University-headquar...
One-Fifth of U.S. Surgeons Still Overusing Riskier Procedure to Create Kidney Dialysis Access
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 21:09
News Long-term hemodialysis is a lifesaver for approximately half a million patients in the United States with kidney failure (also known as end-stage renal disease, or ESRD) who are either waiting on or unsuitable for a...
Researchers Develop New Method to Rapidly, Reliably Monitor Sickle Cell Disease
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 20:08
News Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disorder that affects red blood cells, distorting their natural disc shape into a crescent moon or "sickle" shape. Normal red blood cells move freely through small vessels through...
Scientists Are Citing Patents for Things That Don't Actually Exist
Discover - 13 Jun 2019 20:00
(Credit: Willrow Hood/Shutterstock) Let's say I have an idea for a great invention one day -- a series of pneumatic tubes that would shoot pods with people inside between cities at hundreds of miles an hour. My "Superloo...
People with Mobility Issues Set to Benefit from Wearable Devices
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 19:53
News The lives of thousands of people with mobility issues could be transformed thanks to ground-breaking research by scientists at the University of Bristol. The FREEHAB project will develop soft, wearable rehabilitativ...
Carbon-Neutral Fuel Made from Sunlight and Air
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 19:41
Videos Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a novel technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air. For the first time worldwide they demonstrate the entire thermochemical proce...
Skinflow: A Soft Robotic Skin Based on Liquid Transmission
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 19:32
News Researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and the University of Bristol have recently developed a new soft robotic skin-like sensor that is based on fluidic transmission. This sensor, presented at the... Contri...
Rutgers Scientist Creates 'Virtual Biopsy' Device to Detect Skin Tumors
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 19:23
News Using sound vibrations and pulses of near-infrared light, a Rutgers University scientist has developed a new "virtual biopsy" device that can quickly determine a skin lesion's depth and potential malignancy without ...
First Blood-Brain Barrier Chip Using Stem Cells Developed by Ben-Gurion University Researchers
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 19:06
News Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have, for the first time, duplicated a patient's blood-brain barrier (BBB), creating a human BBB chip with stem ...
Small Currents for Big Gains in Spintronics
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 19:00
News UTokyo researchers have created an electronic component that demonstrates functions and abilities important to future generations of computational logic and memory devices. It is between one and two orders of magnit...
FCC Wants to Fix Maps That Now Overstate Broadband Coverage
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 18:58
News U.S. telecom regulators are trying to fix faulty maps that don't reflect which Americans have access to high-speed internet. Contributed Author: Tali Arbel, AP Technology Writer Topics: Carriers
Laser Trick Produces High-Energy Terahertz Pulses
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 18:19
News A team of scientists from DESY and the University of Hamburg has achieved an important milestone in the quest for a new type of compact particle accelerator. Using ultra-powerful pulses of laser light, they were abl...
New Nanosheet Coating Could Replace Nonrecyclable Metalized Films in Food Packaging
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 17:38
News A team of researchers at the University of Oxford, in the U.K., has developed a new type of nanosheet coating for food packaging that could replace the metalized films currently in use. In their paper published in.....
Earthquake Tests New Wireless Network in Far-Flung Alaska
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 17:33
News The police chief of Alaska's largest city hurried out of the department's glass building after the ground began to shake. Phone lines jammed and even police radios were spotty after a major earthquake, but his cellp...
NASA Prepares to Launch Twin Satellites to Study Signal Disruption From Space
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 17:26
News NASA's twin E-TBEx CubeSats -- short for Enhanced Tandem Beacon Experiment -- are scheduled to launch in June 2019 aboard the Department of Defense's Space Test Program-2 launch. The launch... Contributed Author: NA...
New Record: 3D-Printed Optical-Electronic Integration
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 17:20
News Optoelectronic integration offers a promising strategy to simultaneously obtain the merits of electrons and photons when they serve as information carriers, including high-density communication and high-speed inform...
New Application Can Detect Twitter Bots in Any Language
Medical Design Technology - 13 Jun 2019 17:17
News Thanks to fruitful collaboration between language scholars and machine learning specialists, a new application developed by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and Linnaeus University in Sweden can dete...