Lab and Test

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  • Device can detect fake meat and fish

    Meat and fish fraud costs billions of dollars a year and causes problems for people with allergies and religious or cultural reasons to avoid certain meats or fish. The current detection methods are accurate but slow and tedious.

  • Watch cool research: Antimatter chilled to near absolute zero

    Antihydrogen atoms, the simplest form of atomic antimatter, were successfully cooled using laser light.

  • New panel mount couplers allow high-speed connection through enclosures

    The couplers are designed for use with data acquisition, test and measurement, and PC peripheral interconnect applications.

  • Remotely monitoring nuclear reactor off-gas in real time

    The method can help streamline safety assessments for emerging molten salt reactor technology.

  • Watch: Rapid test measures COVID-19 immunity

    The pinprick test accurately measures coronavirus antibody concentrations in blood in under one hour.

  • Video: Engineered heart valves grow with pediatric patients

    Pediatric heart valve replacement surgeries could be reduced after tri-tube valves demonstrated growth in an animal model.

  • Study: Stay at home orders caused an increase in learning at home

    The staggered adoption of nonessential business closures in the U.S. was used to estimate the effects of the pandemic on demand for online learning.

  • Differentiating local from global sources of plutonium pollution in soil

    Such differentiation can help inform decisions concerning nuclear legacies, particularly the clean-up of contaminated land.

  • Study: Insect diversity may provide better crop yields

    Fields and farms with more insect pollinator variety provide more stable pollination services to nearby crops every year.

  • Cold tests help find stronger stevia plants

    Cold-tolerant plants could represent a new crop for farmers in the U.S. and colder climates.

  • SIGLENT's new line of PLUS oscilloscopes start at $999

    SDS2000X PLUS oscilloscopes feature bandwidths of 100, 200, 350 MHz with 16-channel mixed signal analysis.

  • XCT images tiniest semiconductor materials

    Extreme ultraviolet coherence tomography enables material-specific characterization of nanoscopic buried structures.

  • Swimming cells improve performance of microfluidic devices

    Motile algae cells are used to measure performance of high-tech microfluidic devices.

  • New technology to 'accelerate' wastewater treatment

    A compact superconducting radio frequency accelerator is being advanced to remove contaminants from wastewater.

  • Argonaut Manufacturing Services opens custom controls and standards facility

    The site is expected to alleviate common concerns over manufacturing challenges associated with positive controls and nuclei acid templates.

  • Passive sampling torpedo takes aim at wastewater-borne SARS-CoV-2

    The Torpedo Passive Sampler detects the virus responsible for COVID-19 in wastewater systems.

  • Watch a wearable medical monitor that multitasks

    The device tracks blood pressure, measures lactate, caffeine and alcohol in sweat, and gauges glucose levels in interstitial fluids.

  • Video: Implant aids patients with inner ear disorder

    An implanted device shows promise in patients with a debilitating condition linked to loss of the inner ears’ sense of balance.

  • Watch engineered heart tissue that beats

    The development of viable heart tissue in the laboratory has led to a greater understanding of the mechanics of cardiac tissue.

  • Ophthalmology tool can also be used to detect passport forgeries

    OCT imaging can reveal if the inner structure of a document has been tampered with.

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