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Novel Biomedical Imaging System Combines Optical, Ultrasound Technology

Researchers are developing a novel biomedical imaging system that combines optical and ultrasound technology to improve diagnosis of life-threatening diseases. The...

Device Harvests Energy from Low-Frequency Vibrations

A wearable energy-harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm while walking or jogging. The device, about the size of a wristwatch, produces enough power to run a...

Electronic Brain Implant Stops Seizures

Researchers have successfully demonstrated how an electronic device implanted directly into the brain can detect, stop, and even prevent epileptic seizures. The work represents an advance in the...

Cloaking Nano-Sensors for Optics and Biomedicine

A new metamaterial will improve the accuracy of nano-sensors in optics and biomedicine by cloaking them from external radiation. The aim of the project is to model and then prototype a...

Design Tool Brings a ‘Structural’ Approach to Color

A new approach to structural coloration is more freeform than you might expect.

Volvo Sees 360c Concept as Alternative to Flying, Autonomous-Standards Avatar

Volvo this week revealed what it believes could be a viable alternative to short-haul airliner travel: the 360c concept car, which offers a comfortable bed along...

Northrop Grumman Completes First Live Motor Cast for OmegA Rocket

Northrop Grumman of Falls Church, Va. has successfully completed casting, or filling with solid propellant, the first live motor segment for its new OmegA rocket. The...

2018 Mercedes-Benz A200 AMG Line

Mercedes-Benz is fond of saying it cascades at least some of the S-Class’ posh luxury and technology throughout its range. That’s just what it has done for the fourth-generation A-Class, the nameplate...

Off-Road Bus from Torsus Transports to Hard-To-Reach Places

Start-up company Torsus recently launched what it claims is the world’s first purpose-built, heavy-duty off-road bus, the Praetorian, designed to transport personnel and...

GKN Aerospace to Develop First Additive-Manufactured Rocket Engine Turbines in Europe for Prometheus Project

GKN Aerospace in Trollhättan, Sweden, are developing and manufacturing the first additive-manufactured, or 3D-printed, rocket engine...

New Use for Beer, Soup, Barley: Medical Imaging Drink

Before launching their latest science experiment, University at Buffalo researchers bought more than 200 types of tea, chocolate, herbs, and other foodstuffs. The goal wasn't to stock up for...

Imaging Analysis Could Lead to Better Arthritis Treatment

An algorithm to monitor the joints of patients with arthritis, which could change the way that the severity of the condition is assessed, has been developed by a team of engineers,...

Photodetector to Improve Night Vision, Thermal Sensing

Using graphene, one of science's most versatile materials, engineers from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have invented a new type of photodetector that can work with more types of...

3D Super-Resolution Imaging Gives Insight into Alzheimer's

Recent studies show that 40 percent of Americans over the age of 85 have Alzheimer's disease, and that the disease begins 10 to 20 years before people show up at the doctor's office...

3D-Printed Prototype for Bionic Eye

This video shows the 3D-printing process for directly and fully 3D printing an array of interconnected semiconducting photodiode (light receptor) devices on a glass hemisphere. The work was done at the...

Augmented Reality Simplifies Aircraft Inspection

The Air Force Research Laboratory is using augmented reality to simplify and expedite nondestructive inspection of aircraft. This approach eliminates the need to scan several displays...

NASA Uses Shape Memory Alloys to Fold F-18 Aircraft Wing

Engineers from NASA and Boeing have successfully used shape memory alloys (SMA) to move a full-sized wing section of an F/A-18 Hornet. This test is part of a project investigating the...

A GPS for Inside Your Body

A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has created an "in-body GPS" system called ReMix. The new method can pinpoint the location of ingestible implants inside the body...

Technology Innovation at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

This video describes the goals of NREL’s Innovation and Technology Transfer activities by taking the scientific discoveries that are coming out of the lab and to transfer them...

Electronic Flight Bag Users Forum Focuses on Regulatory, AID, Security, Connectivity, Other Pressing Issues

More than 300 aerospace professionals are expected at SAE International’s Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) Users Forum, hosted by...

Tackling the Lubrication Challenges of Electric Vehicles

Although electric vehicles (EVs) often are extolled as “low-maintenance” alternatives to conventional internal-combustion (IC) propulsion and its brew of critical fluids that...

Biosensor Chip Detects Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Wirelessly and with Higher Sensitivity

A team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a chip that can detect a type of genetic mutation known as a single nucleotide...

Mobile Ultrasound Combines Stationary, Portable Functions

A high-tech device-transformer for ultrasound examination combines three functions in one device. So instead of two types of vehicles (stationary and portable), medical institutions can...

Using LCP-Based Flexible Substrates for Medical Smart Sensor Applications

Medical devices require sensors that are miniaturized, highly reliable and integrated, cost-effective, hermetic, and biocompatible. By combining thin film technology with...

Sensory Device Aids Amputees

Sensory feedback — achieved by direct interfaces attached to the nerves — fundamentally changed how study participants used their mechanical attachment, “transforming it from a sporadically used tool into a...

Wireless Pressure-Sensing Eye Implant Could Help Prevent Blindness

Researchers at Caltech have developed an implantable pressure sensor that can reside in the human eye for years at a time while wirelessly sending data about the eye’s health...

Sound Waves Provide ‘Liquid Biopsies’

Researchers have developed a gentle, contact-free method for separating circulating tumor cells from blood samples that is fast and efficient enough for clinical use. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs)...

RFID for Medical Device and Surgical Instrument Tracking

Ensuring patient safety and quality of care has become an increasingly technology-reliant process for most healthcare providers. With 4,000 reported “retained surgery items” cases per...

3D Printed Biopsy Robot for Breast Cancer Research

A 3D printed biopsy robot is propelled by cylinders driven by air pressure. With the help of hoses that supply the air, the control of the robot can be placed outside the MRI scanner. The...