Tiny Cancer Detection Device Proves Effective in Uganda Testing
Its name is an acronym used to convey its size, but researchers at Cornell Engineering and Weill Cornell Medicine are hoping their hand-held cancer...
Small Modulator for Big Data
Conventional lithium niobite modulators, the longtime workhorse of the optoelectronic industry, may soon go the way of the vacuum tube and floppy disc. Researchers...
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Kidney specialist Professor Carol Pollock has been treating Vicki Hanson for more than 20 years. Now Vicki is expressing her gratitude with a donation...
New Test Kit Invented by NUS Researchers Enables Quick, Accurate, and...
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a portable, easy-to-use device for quick and accurate screening of...
Study of Tiny Vortices Could Lead to New Self-Healing Materials, Other...
In the “Wizard of Oz” a tornado picks up Dorothy’s house and moves it far away. A bit farfetched, right? But scientists at the Department...
X-Rays Uncover a Hidden Property That Leads to Failure in a Lithium-Ion Battery Material
Over the past three decades, lithium-ion batteries, rechargeable batteries that move lithium ions back and forth to charge and discharge, have enabled smaller devices...
Point-Of-Care Sensors to Detect Manganese from Single Drop of Blood
A three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago to develop portable,...
Two Quantum Dots Are Better Than One: Using One Dot to Sense Changes in...
Quantum dots are nanometer-sized boxes that have attracted huge scientific interest for use in nanotechnology because their properties obey quantum mechanics and are requisites...
Building Sustainable Infrastructure
Buildings serve many essential purposes in people’s lives — they provide shelter; an environment in which to live, learn and work; and are the...
Little Helpers React to Ultrasound
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UVA Identifies Brain’s Lymphatic Vessels as New Avenue to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
Lymphatic vessels that clean the brain of harmful material play a crucial role in the development and progression of multiple sclerosis, new research from the University...
New ‘Trap’ to Analyse, in Real Time, How Cells Communicate
Using multiple laser beams and Raman spectroscopy experts at the Universities of Nottingham and Glasgow have designed and built a new instrument which could help...
Researchers Will Develop New ‘Smart Fabrics’ for Activity and Health Monitoring
The next generation of wearable activity sensors will not be strap-on devices that can be lost or forgotten, say researchers at the University of...
Truth Serum and Zero-G in the Vomit Comet: The Hunt for Deep Space Flight...
Engineers from Trinity are among an elite team of researchers with a unique tale to tell, having recently returned from a research expedition to...
Panasonic Develops Technology to Visualize Movement of the Lithium Ions in...
Panasonic Corporation succeeded in regionally fixed quantitative visualization of the two-dimensional distribution of the lithium ions in the LiCoO2 cathode for the first time...
Long Wind Turbine Blades Require New Composite Materials
As Denmark is getting yet greener and focus on wind energy is increasing, challenges are appearing, too. The reason is the possibility of not...
Chemists Demonstrate Sustainable Approach to Carbon Dioxide Capture from Air
Chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a practical, energy-efficient method of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from air. They report their...
