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  • Quantum Radar Could Detect Objects Invisible to Conventional Systems

    An international research team has developed a prototype quantum radar that it says has the potential to detect objects invisible to conventional systems. The radar is a hybrid system that uses quantum correlation between microwave and optical beams to detect objects of low reflectivity, such as cancer cells or aircraft with a stealth capability.

  • Design Innovations Led to a Compact, Simple-to-Use Medical Defibrillator

    You've seen those live-saving defibrillators in offices, shopping malls and even homes, standing at the ready for immediate use in case of a medical emergency.

  • Serving a Thirsty World, Trends in Desalination, Part 2

    Desalination is used to produce water that is potable for drinking, industrial use and irrigation. The engineering challenges of desalination projects include not just technology, but also geography, environmental impact, finance and politics.

  • Gases Excluded from Montreal Climate Deal Are Harming Ozone, Researchers Say

    A report finds that a man-made chemical, dichloromethane, which is not included in a United Nations treaty aimed at protecting the ozone layer, is contributing to ozone depletion.

  • Bendable Implant Taps Nervous System without Damaging It

    Body implants that can interface with the nervous system run up against a basic material problem: wires are stiff and bodies are soft. Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale, in Lausanne, Switzerland, have designed a soft, flexible electronic implant, which they say has the same ability to bend and stretch as dura mater, the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.

  • Wastewater Treatment Technology for Developing Countries

    Engineers have developed a wastewater treatment technology for use in developing countries that can reduce total energy consumption by 90%.

  • AWWA to Congress: Stricter Nutrient Pollution Management Is Needed

    In testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, American Water Works Association Water Utility Council Chair Aurel Arndt explains that better management of nutrient pollution is key to keeping drinking water safe from cyanotoxins.

  • Brain-computer Interface Works Wirelessly

    After more than a decade of engineering work, researchers at Brown University and Blackrock Microsystems have commercialized a wireless device that can be attached to a person’s skull and transmit via radio thought commands collected from a brain implant.

  • Chemical Engineer Robert Langer Wins Queen Elizabeth Prize

    The 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to Dr. Robert Langer for his work and leadership in engineering at the interface with chemistry and medicine.

  • DARPA Embraces the Biotech World

    When it comes to pushing the technology envelope, few organizations can match the impressive contributions of the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

  • Bioenergy Competes for Food Crops and Land, Report Claims

    A report suggests that growing crops for biofuels is hurting the environment and adding to the global food crisis.

  • Researchers Invent Technique to Unboil Egg Whites

    Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Australian chemists have discovered a way to unboil egg whites, according to findings published in the journal ChemBioChem.

  • DNA ‘Smart Glue’ May Help Build 3D Tissues, Organs

    DNA strands can act as a glue to hold together 3-D-printed materials that could someday be used to grow tissues and organs in the lab, a new study has found.

  • Your Smart Phone as Medical Lab Instrument

    High-priced microscopes, spectrometers and chromatography devices get all the attention in lab equipment circles.

  • Neurotechnology Hits Its Stride

    Chronic pain, hearing loss, sleep apnea, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, paralysis from stroke or spinal cord injury. These are among a growing array of medical conditions that physicians are now treating with neurotechnology devices, which deliver electrical stimulus to limbs and organs.

  • Enabling New Age Knees

    Over the course of 50 years, the average person takes about 140 million steps. Add tennis, jogging and a gym membership and it’s no wonder that knee replacement surgeries increase 10% year over year. In 2010, American doctors replaced more than 590,000 knees. All this repair work requires

  • Wearable Chemical Sensors for Asthma Sufferers

    Imagine a phone app that warns you in advance of potentially dangerous air pollution at your location. That’s one proposed benefit from wearable air monitors under development by a California-based startup, Chemisense. The monitors will track about a dozen pollutants, including carbon

  • Researchers Use 3D Printers to Create Custom Medical Implants

    A team of researchers at Louisiana Tech University has developed a method for using what they say is affordable, consumer-grade 3D printers and materials to fabricate custom medical implants that can contain antibacterial and chemotherapeutic compounds for targeted drug delivery. The team,

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