Research is under way to develop new techniques for detecting diabetic retinopathy at early onset with the hope of improving prevention and treatment of this major cause of blindness. Diabetic retinopathy is a common complication of ...
What happens to our cognitive abilities as we age? Traditionally it is thought that age leads to a steady deterioration of brain function, but new research in Topics in Cognitive Science argues that older brains may take longer to process ...
From the world of nanotechnology we've gotten electronic skin, or e-skin, and electronic eye implants or e-eyes. Now we're on the verge of electronic whiskers. Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley ...
Tags: Sensors, nanotechnology, Electrical, Electronics
"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Living cells are ready for their close-ups, thanks to a new imaging technique that needs no dyes or other chemicals, yet renders high-resolution, three-dimensional, quantitative imagery of cells and their internal structures – all ...
A team of researchers at Osaka University in Japan has discovered that one type of zebrafish pigment cell chases another around in a Petri dish possibly explaining how they fish gets its stripes. The team has published its findings in ...
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A UT Arlington engineering professor has proven that the effect of mass is important, can be measured and has a significant impact on any calculations and measurements at the sub-micrometer scale. The findings help to better understand ...
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Liquid crystals are remarkable materials that combine the optical properties of crystalline solids with the flow properties of liquids, characteristics that come together to enable the displays found in most computer monitors, televisions ...
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With Windows 8 bearing a good share of the blame for the declining PC market, HP is falling back on Windows 7 for its latest marketing push. The world’s second largest computer maker recently began promoting PCs loaded with Windows ...
The Beat the Q app allows consumers to order takeaway coffee ahead of time A new Australian phone app that allows users to order and pay for coffee en-route to their regular cafe — to ‘Beat the Q’ — has been ...
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Surging air pollution from China and other fast-growing Asian economies has intensified winter cyclones in the northwest Pacific, scientists said Tuesday. Winter cyclones in latitudes including northwestern China, Korea and Japan have ...
Tags: Service, Air Pollution
Major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be slowing down, according to new research from the University of Reading. The findings show that a recently measured slowdown of 10-15% may be part of larger decline that began in the ...
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Recengly, XCMG’s independent 6x2 Lightweight LNG Tractor is successfully developed with good power and high economy. Its emission can carter for China 5 standard. With the state’s increasingly high requirement on energy saving ...
Tags: XCMG, LNG portfolio, Lightweight, LNG Tractor, new-energy product
Last November, the Telegraph reported that England will become the first country in the world to mandate computer programming in primary and secondary schools. This is set to happen this year. During my college days, I worked on a project ...
Tags: Does Technology, Volumetric Efficiency, pen-and-paper process
While legislators in at least seven states contemplate measures to stop implementation of the health law, Maryland's Senate advanced a bill to provide insurance to those who were unable to enroll in that state's troubled health exchange ...