Every week reporter Ankita Rao selects interesting reading from around the Web. NPR: 5 Simple Habits Can Help Doctors Connect With Patients I'd never [before] been encouraged to sit at a patient's bedside -; to stop hurrying for even a ...
Tags: Obesity Origins, Children with Chronic Disease, Health&Medicine
The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. A team of engineers has developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that ...
Tags: bio-hybrid machines, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a robotic "nanobiopsy" system that can extract tiny samples from inside a living cell without killing it. The single-cell nanobiopsy technique is a powerful tool for scientists working to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), which uses a fine-tipped probe to scan surfaces at the atomic scale, will soon be augmented with a chemical sensor. This involves the use of a hollow AFM cantilever, through which a liquid - in this case ...
Tags: Chemical Sensor, Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Sensor
Users from Northwestern University, working with the Center for Nanoscale Materials EMMD Group at Argonne, have demonstrated the first growth of graphene on a silver substrate. Unique wave-like electron scattering at the edges of the ...
The ultra-thin electronic membrane sticks to various surfaces. Credit: Peter Rueegg, ETH Zurich Researchers at ETH are developing electronic components that are thinner and more flexible than before. They can even be wrapped around a ...
Tags: ETH, electronic components, ultra-thin, transparent sensors
Researchers in Japan have created indium phosphide (InP) nanowire (NW) solar cell structures with internal quantum efficiencies (IQEs) that beat the performance of bulk InP-based devices in the short-wavelength range of 300-570nm [Masatoshi ...
Tags: INP Nanowire solar cells, InP SA-MOVPE p-type, InP substrates
The idea of everyone in a community pitching in is so universal that even bacteria have a system to prevent the layabouts of their kind from enjoying the fruit of others' hard work, Princeton University researchers have discovered. Groups ...
Tags: Vibrio cholerae, loafers, bacteria, freeloader
Manufacturers of increasingly minute computer chips, transistors and other products will have to take special note of research findings at the University of Huddersfield. The implications are that a key process used to transform the ...
Tags: nanoscale materials
After studying specimens from the Nearctic deposited in the United States National Museum of Natural History and some specimens in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, researchers have found 16 new species of wasps from the Nearctic ...
Tags: new species, wasps, Nearctic region
Researchers in China have developed a selective area epitaxy (SAE) approach to create nanopyramids of nitride semiconductor 'white' light-emitting diodes (LEDs) without using phosphors [Kui Wu et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol103, p241107, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
Some tiny or microscopic samples or specimens of botanical or chemical or biological areas of science studies may need to be safely transported and carried or sent across laboratories. If they are not live, they can be applied on glass ...
One of the biggest challenges facing rechargeable batteries with lithium (Li) electrodes is the growth of dendrites, which can short-circuit the batteries and cause complete failure. Although dendrites do their damage in the battery's ...
Tags: Electronics, Batteries
Optical inspection tool manufacturer Nanotronics Imaging LLC of Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA has completed a $7m Series B financing round from San Francisco-based technology investment firm Founders Fund (which has previously backed companies ...
Tags: Nanotronics, inspection tool
A novel microfluidics device by IBM could be a boon to the oncology market. The new device can assist oncologists in identifying different types of cancer, offering several improvements over existing biopsy techniques. When a patient has ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Microfluidics Device