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Electronica Exhibits Solutions ‘Ahead Of What’s Possible’

Editorial Team Oct 5, 2016

In Munich, Germany, Analog Devices, (ADI), will exhibit a broad range of simplified solutions and innovative technologies across 6 application areas, and a total of 18 live demonstrations covering healthcare, instrumentation, process…

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Otterly amazing wetsuits inspired by semiaquatic animals

Editorial Team Oct 5, 2016

Beavers and sea otters lack the thick layer of blubber that insulates walruses and whales. And yet these small, semiaquatic mammals can keep warm and even dry while diving, by trapping warm pockets of air in dense layers of fur.…

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Keyboard technique developed to monitor Parkinson’s at home

Editorial Team Oct 5, 2016

In a paper published today in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers at MIT and elsewhere describe a technique they have developed to monitor Parkinson’s disease progression as patients interact with a computer keyboard. Parkinson’s…

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Time-tracking wasting your time? Don’t flip out – or do?

Daisy Stapley-Bunten Oct 4, 2016

Introduced on Kickstarter, ZEI° is the 8-sided device which makes time tracking simple and elegant. No more minutes wasted writing how many minutes it takes to write the minutes. This time tracking device allows you to record different…

Materials

Growing old gracefully by preventing free radicals

Editorial Team Oct 4, 2016

Free radicals destroy our cells, all human organisms are attacked by them and over times they contribute to us ageing. Researchers have found out how a particularly dangerous type of free radicals is formed, and it may lead to a better…

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Materials discovery and the survival of the fittest battle

Editorial Team Oct 4, 2016

Paving the way for the development of dynamically-evolving polymers that form spontaneously by adapting to their environment is research led by Rein Ulijn, Director of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)'s Nanoscience…

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Oxides set aflutter with water vapor

Editorial Team Oct 4, 2016

Exposing one type of an oxide structure called perovskite to both water vapour and streams of electrons, it exhibits behavior that researchers had never anticipated: The material gives off oxygen and begins oscillating, almost resembling a…

A&D

Discovery of dark matter could win scientists Nobel Physics Prize

Editorial Team Oct 4, 2016

Scientists behind the groundbreaking discoveries of gravitational waves and the existence of dark matter are seen as potential favorites for Tuesday's announcement of the Nobel Physics Prize. Gravitational waves are 'ripples' in the…

Genetics

DNA microsatellites lead to new understanding of cancer tumors

Editorial Team Oct 4, 2016

Short, unstable stretches of DNA, called microsatellites, may play a far greater role in the development and progression of cancer than previously thought, UW Medicine researchers report in a study appearing October 3rd in the journal…

Smartphones

Google Translate now does real-time visual translation

Editorial Team Oct 4, 2016

More information: Google The Google Translate app now does real-time visual translation of 20 more languages. So the next time you’re in Prague and can’t read a menu, we’ve got your back. But how are we able to recognize these new…