By letting DNA strands grow together with gold, scientists at Uppsala Berzelii Centre for Neurodiagnostics and Science for Life Laboratory have developed a brand new concept for super sensitive diagnostics of different diseases. The study ...
Tags: DNA, ACS Nano, strand, UU Innovation
(Phys.org) —Advances in light-sheet microscopy have led to impressive images and videos of the brain in action. With this technique, a plane of light is scanned through the sample to excite fluorescent calcium sensors which proxy ...
Tags: LFM, Google glass, Misha Ahrens, microscopy
(Phys.org) —An attempt to uncover the 'holy grail' of a lossless energy source has inadvertently led to a study which could result in the next generation of high-speed, mass storage hard drives. Chemists at the University of ...
Tags: new material, next generation, holy grail, Colossal Magneto Resistance
Building robots is hard. Seriously hard. Not only do you have to construct them physically, but even after you've got them all wired up with motors and sensors and batteries and whatnot, they won't actually DO anything until you've spent ...
Tags: MOSS, Building Robots, MIT, Scratch
National Hard Spring Wheat Show has taken on a different look this year with the incorporation of the Best of the Best program. The 2014 National Hard Spring Wheat Show has taken on a different look this year with the incorporation of ...
Tags: NSDU, Elizabeth Hagen, Frayne Olson
Wearable Technologies, the leading platform for technologies worn close to, on, or even in the body announced the winner of the Innovation World Cup yesterday. Wearables stepped out of the niche and early adopter market and are becoming ...
Tags: Wearable Technologies, mass market
The hardness, crystalline structure and wide bandgap of gallium nitride (GaN) make it ideal for a variety of applications, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes that read blu-ray discs, transistors that operate at high ...
Tags: III-V Semiconductor, Laser
At the Mobile World Congress 2014, Sensirion AG is presenting its latest humidity and temperature sensor SHTW1, which opens up new possibilities in the weara-ble and mobile market with its chip-scale packaging technology. This global ...
Tags: sensors, mobile market, consumer market
LaMar Lighting Company launches a new website for its occu-smart® line of motion sensor controlled bi-level lighting .Designed to serve as a resource for architects, lighting designers, electricians and facility managers, the website ...
Tags: LaMar, bi-level lighting, LED
Building owners and commercial system designers and installers now have a bigger ally in Taco. The company has broadly expanded the capabilities of its iWorX control platform to provide dynamic graphical interface for remote monitoring of ...
Tags: Taco, iWorX, ProBalance SelfSensing, VFD
Toyota's popular RAV4 SUV will further strengthen its position at the heart of the mid-size SUV market with the introduction of new technology and enhanced equipment levels. RAV4 becomes the first Toyota vehicle in Australia to be fitted ...
Tags: SUV, interactive management system
In 2012, Clearpath Robotics decided to give away a customized Husky UGV to a worthy cause, and what could be more worthy than keeping us humans from getting blown up. The University of Coimbra in Portugal has taken its free Husky and turned ...
Kansas State University will offer a combustible grain dust prevention workshop teaching advanced mitigation methods on Feb. 26 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm in Omaha, Neb. following the 2014 GEAPS (Grain Elevator and Processing Society) Exchange. ...
Tags: agriculture, grain dust hazards
Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it was teaming up with researchers at two US universities to work on obstacles, technical and otherwise, to automated driving. "To deliver on our vision for the future of mobility, we need to work with many ...
Tags: Autonomous Cars, Cars, Transportation, Ford
Heralding a new age of terrific timekeeping, a research group led by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicist has unveiled an experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics